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Writing, photography, cooking, orisha, Ifa, Santeria, soul, alternative, hip hop jungle house, classic jazz and blues, Cowboy Bebop, beautiful women with brains, watching entires seasons of shows on DVD, candlelight dinners, talks until daybreak, stealing without getting caught, catching thieves who steal from me and chilling on a Sunday afternoon like Monday's a long way away.
People who ain't scared to look at themselves in the mirror when the cameras are off. Folks who ask questions without fear of the answers. And anybody who survived the 80's and 90s.
D'Angelo, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, N'Dea Davenport, Incubus, Zero 7, The Pharcyde, Mos Def, The Roots (pre-Tipping Point), Prince, Mike, Incubus, Nirvana, No Doubt, Sarah McLachlan, Sade, John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman, Frank Sinatra, Buena Vista Social Club and anything 4Hero has ever remixed.
Payback, The Usual Suspects, Before Sunrise, Back to the Future Trilogy, Traffic, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, Star Wars Trilogy (before the crappy DVD versions), The Good Thief, City of God, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mo' Better Blues, A Fistful of Dollars, When Harry Met Sally, The Thomas Crown Affair (both original and remake) Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Blade, The Matrix( 1 and 2 but 3 was abyssmal), Made, Swingers, Casino, Goodfellas and the Transformers Movie, Brick, Michael Clayton, Serenity
The Wire, The Sopranos, Oz, Carnivale, Street Time, Six Feet Under, 24, The Shield, The Greatest American Hero, Max Headroom, Booker, Cheers, The Cosby Show (before Raven and Erika), Sex and the City (before Aidan got dumped the second time), The X-Files (before the movie), Dinner for Five, and Late Night with David Letterman (before it went to CBS)
In The Hand of Dante, Cut Numbers, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Fire Next Time, Invisible Man, Assata, Anything Harry Potter, The Easy Rawlins series, Fight Club, Lullaby, The Farm, Disappearing Acts, Bright Lights, Big City, Mama Day , Bangkok 8, Bangkok Tattoo, Bangkok Haunts, Kitchen Confidential, The Bobby Gold Stories, Any Loeb/Sale graphic novel.
My father, James Baldwin, A Tribe Called Quest, John Coltrane, Chief Bey, Baba Shango Alafia, Malcolm X, Franz Fanon, W.E.B. Dubois, Jimi Hendrix, Prince. my grandfathers, Melvin Jasper, Sr. and Jesse James Langley, Sr. Ibaye