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
duhhhh...REAL muthaf***as!
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)
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
Simpsons, KQED (i'll swear by it), Discovery, semi-old Star Trek (Picard days), National Geographic...i really like the news....
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
my mother, father and brother; Marie Daulne, Saul Williams, Arthur Rimbaud, Mathieu Kassovitz, Victor Hugo, Shakespeare, Barbara Boxer, Jorge Ben