pretending to be a MERMAID... in a pool, ocean, bed, air or otherwise********** moving inside of the music**** sunshine********** livemusic outdoors in the sun********* good food, outdoors in the sun******* figuring out how musicians do what they do******* laughing****** i love to laugh A LOT******** the PROUD FAMILY (especially BOBBY PROUD!!)and most recently CLASS OF 3000!!!! (love andre, LOVE HIM!)********* sleeping******* cooking and eating******** internetfreak (ie between wikiwikiwikiPEDIA google, miriamwebsteronline, hotmail/gmail, myspace and imdb.com i can sit here for HOURS!!)****** any street on manhattan******** figuring out how to get paid to travel the world (as a producer and/or background singer)*** AGAIN, moving inside of the music**** etceteraetceteraetcetera*************
Live Music ALL the Time!!!! ...................if i can shake a tail feather to it, then i'mGOOD!!! .........AFROBEAT.................HBCU MARCHING BANDS.................DISCO....................LATINJAZZ ............GOSPEL.............SOUL...............NEWJACKSWI NG................HOUSE... followMEEEEfollowMEEEEEfollowMEEEfollowMEEEEE......... mosdef, thefugees, harryconnickjr, FELAanikulapoKUTI, mj's "OFF THE WALL" , chaka's "I LOVE YOU I LIVE YOU"... womack&womack, otisredding's "WHITE CHRISTMAS" (the greatest rendition ever)... david benoirs "CAROL of theBells" (killa!!).... 4thAveJones (shout out muchlove), apolloheights!....... JOHN to the LEGEND allday!....... maze featuring frankiebeverly "HAPPY FEELINGS" or "WE ARE ONE"!!! faithevans, maryjblige (i missed the listening party today ;(oh well).... JODECI (not kci &jojo)...........billwithers, coltrane's equinox or sentimental mood, lee morgan's Search for the New Land... DJ QUICK (YES!!) ...... i miss 2pac............. any prince ballad and "3 Chains'O'Gold"....stevie,marvin,ella,lauryn, thebeegees, queen, eltonjohn, ESTHERO, OUTKAST, OUTKAST, OUTKAST, SAADIQQQQQ, tonytoni (AND what's the other one's name?? oh yeah) tone'..... natejonesonbass....... I LOVE MUSIC!!!!!!!! ps I WANNA BE CASSANDRA WILSON WHEN I GROW UP... or NAVASHA DAYA!!!!!!
The Sound of Music, Gigi, An American in Paris, Funny Face, Roman Holiday, Funny Girl, Victor/Victoria, You've Got Mail, When Harry Met Sally, Love Jones, Sabrina, 50 First Dates, The Wedding Singer, Under The Tuscan Sun, Wayne's World, Clueless, Love and Basketball, Brown Sugar, The Best MAn (the Black version and the Italian version that y'all don't know about!!)... you know those kind of movies........... for the hopeless romantic! ............................then of course i love a good documentary, AfroPunk, Unforgiveable Blackness, Scratch, this joint on Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone!!! ............ AND ANYTHING CELEBRATING BLACK ON BLACK LOVE!!!!!!!!!!
The Cosby Show, A Different World, Will & Grace, Fraser, Friends, Living Single, The Odd Couple (Felix Unger, HA!!), Oprah, History Channel, E! Network, Current Television, and ANYTHING on EXTRAORDINARY ARTS AND CULTURE!!!!
E. Ethelbert Miller's poetry ALL DAY, Ilyasa Shabazz "Growing Up X" (daughter of Malcolm X), May Swenson's poetry, Lucille Clifton's poetry, August Wilson plays, Ntozake Shange "Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo" & "Betsy Brown", Langston Hughes, Willie Perdomo, Sarah Jones, Suheir Hamad, and gangsta-ass wordsmith CHRIS ABANI (if you don't know you betta ask somebody....!)
Charles & Barbara Perkins, Gordon Parks, Shirley Kaplan, Sarah Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Romare Bearden, Zora Neale Hurston, El Hajj Malik & Betty Shabazz, Ed Gordon, Georgia Erby