High levels of Music from across the planet. I'm a baby of the hip-hop generation. So that's what dominates my blood flow. Otherwise I'm heavy into Jazz. Be-Bop, Hard-bop, Avant guard. Brazilian Music. Classic Black Soul music. Rock. Some Punk. Reggae. Electronica. Drum & Bass.
I'd like to meet:
Tibetan Monks...
Music:
Lets just say... If It's good shit, I either have it, know about it, or I am listening to it right now... :)In other words... Way too much to mention. But For starters,John Coltrane, Mcoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Eric Dolphy, Thelonious Monk,Charlie Parker, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Ornett Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Lee Morgan, Nicolas Payton, Woody Shaw Roy Hargrove. Herbie Hancock, My Friends Russell Gunn, Kebbi Williams,
Kinah Boto, Anton Harris. My Brothers Phace Oricalz. (Moh Green and Ebone-Rrain...De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Common, Slick Rick, Nas, Rakim, KRS One, Salt 'n' Pepa, Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, N.W.A, GangStarr, Jungle Brothers, Big Daddy Kane, RUN DMC, Kurtis Blow, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Ottis Redding, James Brown (Long Live the Godfather...) , Chaka Kahn, Aretha Franklin, Roberta Flack, Minnie Ripperton, Flora Purim, Sarah Vauhn, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, The Emotions, The Jones Girls, Milton Nassimento, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Jackson... Generally all pioneers that made it possible for me to do what I do...
Movies:
Documentaries about baseball, (I.E. The Ken Burns Masterpeice.) Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrells, Tombstone, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill (Both of em), Jackie Brown, Malcom X, Do The Right Thing, Girl 6,Mo Better Blues, Woman in a Blue Dress, Crush Groovin', Taledega Nights, Sweetback's Baaaadass Song, Superfly, Foxy Brown, Sheba Baby, Coffy, Hotel Rwanda, Snatch, Lock Stock & Two Smokin' Barrells... And Battlefield Earth.(A great movie to laugh at because it's so dammmmed awful!!!) And Anything that Bruce Lee starred in. I'm also into mad Martial Arts Films... Sonny Chiba, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Tony Ja, Donny Yen, Gordon Liu, and any Tsui Hark film.
Television:
Some Old School classics... And some new :)
Books:
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neal Hurston)... Miles Davis' Autobiography, "Maybe I'll pitch Forever" (Leroy Satchel Paige) "Miracle Man" (Autobiography of Nolan Ryan)"Ascension. John Coltrane and His Quest"...
Heroes:
My Hall of fame: (Just a few of my heros....) Moms and Pops (Not Yet Pictured.)