I love to travel and lived in Europe for 4 years (FRANCE). I have been all over southern Europe and most of Eastern Europe. I also took an amazing solo trip to West Africa (I travel solo a lot, or with my MOM), to SENEGAL, the most amazing country and people. Alas, I haven't made it to Asia yet, but I recently went to Brazil on business and will no doubt be returning soon. I've been through the Caribbean (St. Lucia is the best) and much of the U.S...I like people, art, film, funk, food, dancing, sports (mostly basketball), outdoors, being a nerd...
Since this is "MySpace," I will treat it as if I owned it and could let in who I wanted to...so, please don't try to add me unless you email first...I know that "friend" is a loose term to mean what people want on here, so I will take to mean this: Either I already know you in "real life," and not just in cyperspace, or you give me a reason to want to get to know you in real life and not just in cyberspace, or you are very cool and we might not necessarily ever meet in real life, but I think you add something positive to my page, or you are superfine, in which case everyone else in the world wants you to be their friend too, and you will beautify my page with your presence even though we might never talk or have a relationship further than this...I also want to meet people who are interested in buying fine art from the post-WW II period and or decorative arts from the same period. I am more skeptical about meeting these sorts of people here, but I would love to be surprised... "So if ya don't know, now ya know"Oh yeah, and if you understand this: Nagga Def! or Ibe Hairato? Kor Tanante ? then drop me a line...you know who you are...P.S If you aren't related to me, or I have never met you in real life, or your name isn't Tom, then you ain't gonna be in my top 8...unless I change my mind...ha ha...Oh yeah, and CREU CREU CREU CREU!!!!!!!
R&B, soul, funk, classical, rap, French hip hop, reggae, samba, gospel, bossa nova, ragga, dancehall, jazz, hip hop, blues, West African, Rai, mediterranean, Indian, electronic, house, deep house, 80's and 90's r&b, 70's jazz funk fusion, so like everything from Buju Banton to Ralph Vaughn Williams to Goapele to Jodeci to Herbie Hancock to Faudel to Ravi Shankar to Totally Insane (bay area) to Baaba Maal to 2pac to Django Rheinhardt to Frankie Beverly and Maze to Miles Davis to Pharaoh Sanders to Level 42 to The Oneness of Juju to Joao Gilberto to Al B. Sure to Floetry to Air to Roy Ayers to Oumou Sangare to Alicia Keys to Hall and Oates to Idris Muhammed to Claude Debussy to Shirley Caesar to Kem to DeBarge to Stevie Wonder to Alpha Blondy to Sade to Gangstarr to Gregory Isaacs to Ludwig van Beethoven to Jill Scott to Maurice Ravel to Blackalicious to MC Solaar to Gato Barbieri to Mos Def to Erykah Badu to The Cure to Bobbi Humphrey to Talk Talk to New Edition to Kindred and the Family Soul to John Legend to John Coltrane to Youssou N'Dour to Kleeer to SOS Band to the Pointer Sisters to Surface to Minnie Riperton to Johnny "Guitar" Watson to James Brown to Lonnie Liston Smith to Kool and the Gang to Fela Kuti to Steely Dan to Jamiroquai to Giorgio Moroder to Curtis Mayfield to Antonio Carlo Jobim to Ambrosia to Deee-Lite to Daft Punk to Kraftwerk to Billy Ocean to Chaka Khan to Amadou and Mariam to Chaka Demus and the Pliers to Bobby Hutcherson to Miles Davis to Ray Barretto to The Roots to Digital Underground to The Notorious B.I.G. to Too Short to Art Blakey to Billie Holliday to Django Reinhardt to Dexter Gordon to Duke Ellington to Joe Henderson to Pharoah Sanders to Sergio Mendez to Stan Getz to Azymuth to Eddie Palmieri to Olodum to Joao Gilberto to Stan Getz to Willie Colon to...well, you get the idea...
L'eternel retour, A bout de souffle, Sicario, The Thin Man, Duck Soup, A Clockwork Orange, Boyz N The Hood, Rear Window, La Jettee, The Third Man, The Big Sleep, Yojimbo, My Man Godfrey, Goodfellas, Breakin', Le Diner de Cons, Scarface, Pale Rider, Le Samourai, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beat Street, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Menace II Society, Wild Strawberries, American Psycho, City of God, RIZE, Il Postino, 8 1/2, Hustle and Flow, No Country for Old Men...Film is the greatest art, yet it is the most difficult to successfully create, so more often than not leaves me unsatisfied...
Lately if I watch TV it's COURT TV or A&E I just flip back and forth between Forensic Files, The First 48, Cold Case Files, but lately my guilty pleasure is Hell Date...I also enjoy: Sanford and Son, The Simpson's, Bobby Jones Gospel, Nature programs, Jeopardy, Miami Vice, some sports...I don't really watch TV much...I like movies...
Currently reading: "The Audacity of Hope," The 2007 Almanac, "A History of Utah International: From Construction to Mining," "The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa," "Sade: A Biography." By the way that last one is the Marquis de Sade, and not the singer Sade, although I wouldn't mind reading a biography on Sade. Have read and recommend you read: L'Aventure Ambigue, Another Day in Paradise, Hiroshima mon Amour, Une si longue lettre, The Teachings of Don Juan, Du Cote de chez Swann, works by Leopold Senghor, Siddharta, The Alchemist, L'Etranger, The Book of Mormon, The Old Testament, The Dead Sea Scrolls, Manchild in the Promised Land, poetry by Mallarme, Soul on Ice, Autobiography of Malcom X, Tony Hillerman novels, Childhood's End, The Ten Things you can't say in America, Lonely Crusade, and many, many more...damn there are way too many books...these damn things keep me up late at night...I can't just read one at a time...they just keep making more of 'em, and the way they move that ass...wait a second...what was I talking about? Oh yeah, books...books...uh...
The common man who has overcome adversity to live a happy and normal life surrounded by those he loves and who love him. If "The Man" really does exist, then this might be "The anti-man," or something more clever that I haven't come up with yet.