music (hiphop, funk, dancehall, cumbia, calypso, bhangra, breakbeat, soul, rock, jazz, anything with a funky-ass beat), magazines (Colors, Bizarre, Vice, Found, Front), friends, food, drink, sensi, things, stuff, my lady, the cats, talking, my job, the female booty, collar popping, my front stoop, cholo handstyles, cooking, phonograph records, my treasure boxes, MUNI, crop circles, the Bay Area, dominos (the game), taquerias, Chris Elliot, highsiding, sleeping, looking at people, writing my name, game sprinkling, and on and on...
You. And Stevie Wonder. For a latte at Peets. Ooh- and Cheryl Hines. Ouch.
Where to begin...? Lambert Hendricks and Ross, Rick James, The Coup, Bootsy Collins, Devin the Dude, E-40, Marlo Thomas and Friends, Raphael Saadiq, Erykah Badu, Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66, the Eagles, Toots and the Maytals, Mongo Santamaria, Sir Too $hort, Beny More, Notorious B.I.G., The Gazillions, Eartha Kitt, Lipps inc., Herbie Hancock, Bone Thugz-n-Haromy, Hall and Oates, Ministry, People Under the Stairs, Ray Charles, The Folksmen, The J.Bs, Brand Nubian, Whodini, Kool and the Gang, Percy Mayfield, Digital Underground, Gotan Project, Inspector Double Negative and the Equal Positives, Simon and Garfunkel, the B-52s, Michael Jackson, Digital Underground, Marzipan, Bill Withers, Miles Davis, Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads, Rodney O and Joe Cooley, Queen, Aaliyah, DJ Quik, Rick Starr, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Barrington Levy, Andre Nickatina, Nine Inch Nails, Rose Royce, System of a Down, Portishead, the Turtles, De La Soul, N.W.A, Thurston Moore, Mr. Oizo, Slumplords, Kraftwerk, Ice-T, King Tubby, L'Trimm, Strong Bad, Anglo Saxon, Slick Rick, Nervous Cabaret, Atmosphere, Jil Scott, Nu Shooz, Bay Area Art Collective, DJ Icee, Brotha Lynch Hung, Amon Tobin, Three Times One Minus One, Country Joe and the Fish, Edith Piaf, Front 242, Gucci Crew II, Luther Campbell, Mitch and Mickey, Coach Z, Bobby Darrin, Radiohead, Tipsy, Ojos de Brujo, Brazillian Girls, Lyn Collins, Zapp...and it dont stop...
The Graduate, Bowling for Columbine, The Hills Have Eyes, A Mighty Wind, Pooty Tang, Charlie Hustle: Portrait of a Self Made Millionaire, Elephant, Style Wars, Kids, The Jerk, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Ronin, Heathers, Dark Days, From Dusk Till Dawn, Spellbound, Sex: the Annabel Chong Story, Human Traffic, Secretary, Welcome to the Dollhouse, E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial, Andre Nickatina-Gun Up in Heaven College Tour, Forrest Gump, Showgirls, Run Ronnie Run, The Professional ("Leon", rather.), The Shining, But I'm a Cheerleader, Meet the Parents, Election, Casino, Edward Scissorhands, Fools Serving They Rides, Wild Things, Cruel Intentions, Radio Bikini, the Gods Must be Crazy, Manufacturing Consent, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Girls Gone Wild, Toto le Heros, My Life as a Dog, Ma Vie en Rose, Valley of the Dolls, the House of Yes, Gremlins, King of New york, the Monterey Pop Festival, Richard Pryor: Live and Smokin', the Harder They Come, Reefer Madness, Metropolis (original silent version), Bigger and Blacker, Good Will Hunting, Cat in the Hat (Original cartoon version), Panama: the Last Deception, Valley of the Dolls, Spirited Away, Delirious, City of Lost Children, 28 Days Later, Suicide Club (Suicide Circle), Stop Making Sense, C-Walk- it's a Way of Living, Mr. Death: the Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr., the Times of Harvey Milk, Rushmore, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, the Triplets of Belleville, the Young Poisoner's Handbook, Capturing the Friedmans, Cheech and Chong's "Next Movie", Ninja Scroll, Wave Twisters, the Gospel According to Al Green, did I say A Mighty wind?... (for real)... umm... David Cross: Let America Laugh, Outfoxed, Osama, Sherman's March, Taxi Driver, Party Monster (The documentary- not the one with with Macaulay Culkin), Incident at Oglala: the Leonard Peltier Story, What Have I Done to Deserve This, Wattstax, Ichi the Killer, Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, Rivers and Tides, Office Space, The Corporation, Ran, Hero, Team America, Life Is- the Life and Times of Todd Shaw, Cabin Boy...
...Television rots your brain.
Age of Propaganda, Rules for Radicals, Found, Culture of Fear, Choke, Turntable Timmy, The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Bomb the Suburbs, Crop Circles- Exploring the Designs and Mysteries, 101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions, Hip Hop America, How Are You Peeling?, You Are Being Lied To, Catwatching, The Art of Getting Over, The Hipster Handbook, Holy Blood Holy Grail, Catcher in the Rye, Freaks: We Who are Not As Others, Pyramid Power, Monster: the Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, The VICE Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, Nineteen eighty-four ...