poetry: reading, writing, critiquing, consuming. drumming. music, music, music. philosophy. rhythm. rhyme. beats. breaks. dancing. drinking. things that grow. fire. people watching. making a fool of myself. keys. space. bars. friends. travel. political activism. ancient civilization.
Mitochondrial Eve, our mother.
A sampling: Bilal, Stevie Wonder, Alice In Chains, A Tribe Called Quest, Beck, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Busta Rhymes, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, John Legend, Anthony Hamilton, Stevie Wonder, Bright Eyes, Cody Chesnutt, Al Green, Ween, The Roots, De La Soul, Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin, D'Angelo, Cee-Lo, Cream, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, Tool, Marvin Gaye, Wu-Tang Clan, GFE, Lenny Kravitz, Primus, Sublime, The Ziggens, Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Jethro Tull, Mad Season, Kanye West, Stevie Wonder, 7L and Esoteric, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Common, Collective Efforts, Company Flow, Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Lovage, Faith No More, Tomahawk, Fantomas, Mr Bungle, Peeping Tom, John Zorn, Chris Smither, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Hagard, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Morrissey, Ben Folds, Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, Mazzy Star, Jimi Hendrix, Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, India.arie, Stevie Wonder, Erykah Badu, Phish, The Doors, Tori Amos, The Beatles, The Cure, Ben Harper, Nirvana, Tom Petty, Stetsasonic, REM, Counting Crows, Kings of Leon, Keller Williams, Stevie Wonder, Lefotver Salmon, String Cheese Incident, James Taylor, Paul Simon, Primus, Les Claypool, Henry Rollins, Gravediggaz, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Handsome Boy Modelling School, Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Dead Prez, Kool Keith, KRS-One, Boogey Down Productions, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgeralrd, Louis Armstrong, Floetry, Lupe Fiasco, Grateful Dead, Phish, Stringcheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Muddy Waters, Corinne Bailey Rae, Stevie Wonder, Jane's Addiction, Jeff Beck, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Lou Reed, Norah Jones, Radiohead, Sam Cooke, Ben Lee, Ben Kweller, Spoon, The Afghan Whigs, The Dead Milkmen, The Animals, Stevie Wonder...
Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Mall Rats, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Killing Zoe, Raising Arizona, What Dreams May Come, Spanglish, Match Point, Bananas, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Husbands and Wives, Deconstructing Harry, Star Wars, Lord Of The Rings, Matrix, Animatrix, Star Wars Clone Wars, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Run Ronnie Run, Monty Python: Holy Grail, Life of Brian and Meaning of Life, Lost in Translation, I Heart Huckabees, Broken Flowers, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, Bottle Rocket, Donnie Darko, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, History of the World Part 1, Spaceballs, Usual Suspects, Fight Club, Seven, Clockwork Orange, Dark Crystal, Labrynth, The Shining, Scarface, Office Space, Ninja Scroll, Half Baked, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, Snatch, Spanish Prisoner, Edmond, Office Space, Beautiful Girls, Freeway, Boondock Saints...
None, please.
How bout Authors, instead : Philip K Dick, Vonnegut, Bradbury, Asimov, Harlan Ellison, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen King, Tad Williams, JRR Tolkien, Richard Brautigan, Jack Kerouac, Tom Robbins, Bukowski, Twain, Lovecraft, Poe, Stephen Hawking, Briane Greene, Richard Dawkins, Graham Hancock, Stephen Jay Gould, Susan Blackmore, Noam Chomsky...
Turns out, even Heroes have Heroes.