Music, Playing Music, Friends, Movies, Eating out, cooking, Dancing, Playing Pool, walking, strolling, swaggering, sitting, lying in bed right before I fall asleep and right after I hit snooze in the morning, clean clothes, things that smell good, overthinking, getting other peoples attention, NFL Football, exercise, Jazzerise, Sweatin' to the Oldies, Happy Trees (RIP), people that smile, Bacardi & Cola...Do It!
people that laugh. And that special someone to clean my toe-jam when i'm on my death bed.
Funk! Hip Hop. Reggae. Dancehall. Latin Jazz. Salsa. Classic Rock. 80's Rock. Classic Soul. Oldies. More Oldies. Lot's of Oldies! Jazz (mostly bebop and bass driven, Classic stuff like Louie Armstrong, Nina Simone, and Ella Fitzgerald, and some Modal stuff). I'm a funk fiend. I can't get enough of it. James brown, pfunk, sly and the fam, Ohio Players, The Commodores, Lynn Collins, The Gap Band, Rick James, booker t and the MGS etc. I like it all. Hip hop nonstop mostly folks like the roots, outkast, digital underground, talib kweli and folks of that nature. Reggae: Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru, Barrington Levy, Sister Nancy. but i'm always down to get down to the party hits. And I mean, I get way too into it (in a good way of course). Also pretty much anything else..except whiny music. No Whine for me thanks.
I love movies. All kinds of movies. Movies are great. A random assortment of movies I think everyone should watch? The Fifth Element, Pooty Tang, Airplane, The Blues Brothers, Jet Li movies, City of God, Old School, Spaceballs, American Beauty, Starship Troopers, King of New York, State of grace, Fight Club, Don't be a menace to South Central While drinking your juice in the hood, the royal tenenbaums, Hellraiser 2, Sin City, Starsky and Hutch...Do it!
oh yeah!
The art of Happiness, Ender's Game, American hero, Lies and the lying liars that tell them, Funk! The music the people and the rhythm of the one, The book of Wine, Brave new World, Freeing the natural voice, Seinlanguage, dirty jokes and beer, and anything else that's stimulating, intriguing, exciting, and inspiring.
James Brown (Rest in Peace, and your music will inspire me forever). And the Dalai Lama