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Danielle

souki souki now!

About Me

working, livin, lovin life, can't help singing my ass off most of the time, keepin up on the treks to distant lands and learning their lingo as my mission...trying to nail down my passionate focus and follow it like mos folks

My Interests

things that are different from me, language and culture of Senegal, Brasil, and France (portuguese, french and wolof) mainly but got Morocco and Japan next on my list; meeting new peeps, politics and debate, sunbathing, drawing, singing to people, performing and recording with my boyz in the ILC clique, Bar 717 (feels like heaven!), long baths with an Anchor Steam handy, pitbulls and rotweilers, little kittens named Kofi, writing letters, fine paper and beautiful calligraphy, burnin it down, chillaxing with my very best folks

I'd like to meet:

duhhhh...REAL muthaf***as!

Music:

a TCQuest! wtf! Erykah Badu, Zap Mama, Res, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bob and Damien JG Marley, SWV, De La Soul, Marcelo D2, Alcione, Del the funky H, Slick Rick, Peggy Lee, Les Nubians, Jorge Ben, Dead Prez,Black Sheep, Handsome Boy Modeling School,O Rappa, Mos Def, Jill Scott, Gil Scott-Heron, Nas, Andre 3K, Jimi, Lauryn Hill, Kweli, ceU, Common, Youssou N'Dour, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto and of course Bebel, Shuggie Otis, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, Blackalicious, Slum Village, Jungle Brothers, Timbalada, Caetano Veloso, Tribalistas e Marisa Monte especialmente, A.C. Jobim, Planet Hemp, Tim Maia, Dialated Peoples, Gentleman, Queen Omega, Sizzla, Sista Nancy, Redman, Supreme NTM, Assassin, IAM, U2,Cesaria Evora, Thievery Corporation, King Tubby, Bjork, Lee Scratch Perry,Desmond Williams, and lass but not lees CURTIS MAYFIELD! (in short, anything that grooves real hard)

Movies:

CITY OF GOD (se voce nao sabe, nao vou explicar), Godfather, The Shining, Super Fly, The Last Unicorn, The Labyrinth, Raging Bull, Taxi, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Seven Samurai, Cafe au Lait, Unforgiven, Forrest Gump, Seven, Exorcist (only the original! no sequels!!), Schindler's List, Little Mermaid, Blow, Usual Suspects, Princess Bride, Amelie, Finding Nemo, Last of the Mohicans, La Haine, Midnight Lace, North by Northwest, Dial M for Murder, Heaven and Earth, Gorillas in the Mist, Swing Kids AND Swingers

Television:

Simpsons, KQED (i'll swear by it), Discovery, semi-old Star Trek (Picard days), National Geographic...i really like the news....

Books:

The Kite Runner, Born Confused (Tanuja Desai Hidier! amazing), Their Eyes Were Watching God, Memoires d'Immigres, To End A War (you tell em Dick Clarke!), Tropicalia

Heroes:

my mother, father and brother; Marie Daulne, Saul Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, Mathieu Kassovitz, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Barbara Boxer, Jorge Ben

My Blog

if you EVER thought about getting a record deal, READ this....

MUST READ! Courtney love takes on record label profits, Napster and "sucka VCs" it's kinda long... but it's knowledge for your ass, so read it all.A Must Read For All Unsigned Artist"Courtney Love" d...
Posted by Danielle on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:12:00 PST

from the Elements of our DNA

I am still reeling from our Element show on wednesday...what a trip it is to perform with my boyz, singin songs to my friends in the crowd. i'm a lucky girl to have such a loving community of folks. B...
Posted by Danielle on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:05:00 PST

i tried to practice my war-like tactics...

I have always loved this song. These lyrics are some of the most beautiful I have seen written on the page, but to enhance it with the audio bliss that Mos Def brings...this is what hip-hop can be... ...
Posted by Danielle on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:45:00 PST

Where everything is music

Where Everything is Music Don't worry about saving these songs!And if one of our instruments breaks,it doesn't matter.We have fallen into the placewhere everything is music.The strumming and the flute...
Posted by Danielle on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:16:00 PST