science especially physics. honing my craft as a writer and actor. dictionarydotcom. people that make me go "oh shit, you're ill, I like the way your mind moves around at will." anything outside of hamburger culture. traveling. roots exploration. human rights. p.o.c getting their shit together. new theater. dance performances. live instrumentation that I can lose my marbles to. clarion alley murals. any art that can make me pause, laugh, or cum. foxy girls and grey matter. ultimately, life beyond the thunderdome.
real heads recognize: true-to-word, got-my-back, ride-or-die, overachieving, outstanding, on-the-move, and hungry. A classic Anthem truism... "Only boring people get bored." Belee dat!
blond girls with asian hair
baselines that buzz, beats that bang, lexicons that leverage, compositions that quest.::::::ANY DAY::::::
The Roots (Illadelph Half Life)
Pharcyde (1st two albums)
Medusa
DJ Cam (Mad Blunted Jazz)
Lhasa
Susanna Baca
Mono Blanco
Jarabe de Palo
Manu Chao
Senor Coconut
Santana
Ali Farka Toure
70's Ethiopian Grooves
Brazil - Obscure Hits from the 70s
Virginia Rodrigues
Jimmy Cliff
Bob Marley
Steel Pulse
Gregory Isaacs
Harry Belafonte
The Streets
Automator
Gil Scott-Heron
Sekou Sundiata
Lou Rawls
Bill Withers
The Spinners
Nina Simone
Aretha Franklin
Etta James
Roberta Flack
Stevie Wonder
Sly and the Family Stone
Herbie Hancock (Gershwin's World)
Miles Davis (Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew)
John Coltrane (Soultrane, A Love Supreme)
Ray Charles
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
Zap Mama
Fishbone
Suicidal Tendencies (the 1st album)
Black Sabbath
Danny Ben-Israel
Sun Ra
Saul Williams
Lady Sovereign
Brazilian Girls
Lily Allen
and the beat goes on, and the beat goes on...
::::::GOTTA GIT IT::::::
Albums I need to add or otherwise bring back to my collection if you feel like burning CDs for me --
Enter the Wu by Wu Tang
Return of the Boom Bap by KRS
self-titled album by KRS
Talking Blues by Bob Marley
Black Elvis by Kool Keith
Bombay the Hard Way by Automator
Howlin' Wolf
Poor Righteous Teachers
Portishead
Bjork
Radiohead
Jimi Hendrix
Tom Waits
Patti Smith
PJ Harvey
Shirley Bassey
Eartha Kit
Ulali
Pachuco Boogie
Milt Hinton
Say Bok Gwai
Sweet Honey in the Rock
sheeyit, hit me with Grace Jones while you're at it.
Coffee and Cigarettes, What The Bleep Do We Know?, Motorcyle Diaries, Nine Queens, Napoleon Dynamite, Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, The Spanish Apartment, Saved, Lost in Translation, Los Amantes Del Circulo Polar, Raising Victor Vargas, The Mystic Masseur, Whale Rider, Killing Zoe, Hate, True Romance, Donnie Brasco, Serpico, Carlito's Way, Rumble Fish, Tupac Resurrection, Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, Baraka, The Cruise, Soy Cuba, Abre Los Ojos, Ghost Dog, Dead Man, Better Off Dead, The Closet, Ghost World, Bugsy Malone, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Human Traffic, Hero, Once Were Warriors, Lonewolf & Cub, Aliens, The Game, Spirited Away, La Femme Nikita (the original French version), Maya Deren flicks, um... Tera Patrick, let's see what else... Sleep by Warhol, uh, or that short film by that guy Zapruda, and movies starring me.
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english dictionary, spanish/english dictionary, thesaurus, The Prince (Machiavelli), Anthem (Ayn Rand), The Book of Five Rings (Miyamoto Musashi), The Alchemist (Paolo Coelho), The Four Agreements (Don Miguel Ruiz), Knuckle Up Butterfly (Anthem Salgado), things like that... Sometimes I read the Bible to see what it is everyone's so busy fighting about.
I DIG: Bruce Lee, Muhammad Ali, Miyamoto Musashi, Tetsuo Miyajima, Egon Scheile, Adrian Piper, Timothy Levitch, Ken Nordine, Danny Hoch, Sarah Jones, Margaret Cho, Culture Clash, Roy Bourgeois, 1986 People Power revolutionaries, the Bandit Queen (aka Phoolan Devi), Bucky Fuller, and just some regular ass folks.