Family. Good Music. Mixing. Scratching. Making beats. Listening to Mixtapes. Digging for vinyl. Kenpo. Ju-Jitsu. Music. Breathing. Music. Life. Did I mention music? Respect to Hip-Hop, all the DJ's, turtablists, emcees, graff headz, b-boys & girls.
El Chupa Cabra. Samoans. Albinos. Jim Jones. In that order.
TURNTABALISTS: REVOLUTION, RECTANGLE, Q-BeRT, Jazzy Jeff, Mixmaster Mike, P-trix, MELO-D, RHETTMATIC, BABU, J.ROCC, SHORTKUT, Mr. Chocc, ie.MERG, VIN ROC, CRAZE, MISTA SINISTA, ROC RAIDA, ROB SWIFT, TOTAL ECLIPSE, SPINBAD, MR. DIBBS, blAMstAR (the homey is sick, local cats don't front)...etc, etc.
EMCEES/GROUPS: Cage, Murs, Atmos, MF Doom, Kool Keith, Hiero, Afu-Ra, Jedi Mind Tricks, Immortal Technique, Aesop Rock, El-p, KRS, Ras Kass, Rasco, Planet Asia, Lootpack, Boom Bap Project, Zion*I, Little Brother, Dilated Peoples, PUTS, Dead Prez, Copywrite, Nas, Mos Def, Common, Kweli, Slum V., De La, the Roots, the Wu, ATCQ, Tha Liks, Big L (r.i.p.)...I could go on but I'd hope ya'll have something better to do than read the whole list. Also, I don't just dig on hip-hop, I appreciate most genre's of music as long as the music has soul.
Dog Day Afternoon
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Caddyshack
The Red Violin
Office Space
Smut and the weather channel.
American Monsters (The best collection of essays I've read)
Sex, Drugs, & Cocoa Puffs
Angels & Demons
Anatomy of Motive (if only for the chapter on whether music can really cause you to stab your gym teacher)
Kool Herc.
Grand Wizard Theodore.
FDR.
Jim Thorpe.