I like to meet people into life who are real and have something to say. People who like to express themselves in their own wacky way. People who don't conform to the status quo. People who understand what's really going on.
Ramon Ayala, NOFX, RAGE, Social D, Bad Religion, Violent Femmes, Vicente Fernandez, Chalino, Santana, The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Pink Floyd, El Chicano, Mongo Santamaria, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Etta James, Billie Holiday, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ritchie Valenz, Al Green, Barry White, James Brown, Malo, Ralphie Pagan, Zapp & Roger, Prince, Sade, Manu Chau, Ozomatli, Fabulosos Cadillacs, War, La Sonora Dinamita, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Barrington Levy, The Skatalites, The Slackers, Damian Marley, Hepcat, Sublime, The Specials, The Clash, Pixies, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Beck, System of a Down, Weezer, Jane's Addiction, Hector Lavoe, El Gran Combo, Eddie Palmeri, Oscar de Leon, Afro-Cuban All-stars, Fania All-stars, Cypress Hill, SnoopDogg, NWA, DRE, Ice-cube, Ice-T, Tribe, Dead Prez, Ludacris, Tupac, Outcast, Game, RunDmc, DJQuick, Fugees, Neptunes, Mos Def, Los Bukis, anything conscious, My friends' kinda punk groups, anything that makes me scream, laugh, or cry to name a few.
Blood In Blood Out, Godfather I & II, Frida, Mi Familia, Amores Perros, Pulp Fiction, A Beautiful Mind, Starwars novela, Like Water for Chocolate, Up in Smoke, Half Baked, Malcolm X, Dusk till Dawn, anything Kevin Smith (Silent Bob).
That mierda will corupt your mind!
Bless Mi Ultima (The book that motivated me to read; thank god for Rodolfo Anaya) My transformation to a conscious xicano man started there. Indian Givers, Revolt of the Cockroach People, Writings of a Brown Buffalo, 100 years of solitude, The Illiad is a good ol skool novela, Y no se lo trago la tierra, Rain of Gold, Don Juan, A yaqui way of knowledge, anything Carlos Castaneda, Pocho, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots, The Art of War and so, so many more.
Momz n' Pops, my sister, Cuahtemoc, Tecumsa, the elders in general, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Geronimo, el Che, strong xican@s, Single mothers.