Music is huge. Disc Golf. Pro Wrestling is OG for me. Competition is essential. Yellling and laughing go hand in hand (with Cody anyway). Nostalgia kicks ass (uhh, mostly). Your Mom (she loves me). Dave Chappelle & Stand Up Comedy. Duke Basketball. I repeat, Duke Basketball. Good Movies are amazing art. Naps keep me alive. Sports are my year round addiction (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bulls, New York Yankees. Duke B-Ball is in a league of its own.)
Fumble outta bed and stumble to the kitchen
Pour myself a cup of ambition and
Yawn and stretch and my life is a mess and
If I never make it home today, God bless
~~~aesop rock
(and formely Dolly Pardon)
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys a community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.
~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence.
~Malcolm X
..whiteWu-Tang, 7L & Esoteric, Jedi Mind Tricks, Aesop Rock, Immortal Technique, Apathy, Celph Titled, EPMD, Gang Starr, Eric B & Rakim, John Legend Jurassic 5, NaS, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Public Enemy, Incubus, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Queen, other random indie rap and old-school R&B
..whiteThe Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club, Grandma's Boy, Liar Liar, Requiem For a Dream, Aladdin, The Empire Strikes Back, and many many more
..whiteAmerica is stupid enough as it is, there isn't time to waste on television. Except sports, and thats only because I can't be there myself.
..whiteMost of Margaret Atwood's work
The Bell Jar
..whiteMichael Jordan, the ultimate competitor
Malcom X, the ultimate speaker
Jim Rome, the ultimate sports fanatic
Martin Luther King Jr., the ultimate idealist
All people who make art, music, movies, and literature