staring at the sun, eardrum romancing, skipping stones, exterior decorating, fat pockets or slim pockets, filling my noodle, playing with Rattan sticks (Kali/Escrima),getting lost in a daydream.....making the daydream reality....
Toshiro Mifune.....preferably in Sanjuro and those little nuances that make individuals tick....
Bad Brains!!!Freestyle Fellow Mellowship, Haiku D' Etat, AB Rude, Roots Manuva, Rodney P, MR. Lif, Living Legends, Murs, Grouch, Eligh, Scarub,PSC, etc.,J Live, Aesop Rock, Gang Star, Jawbreaker, propaghandi, Vertebrae, Radiohead, Omid, 2 Mex, Busdriver, Xinco, Radioinactive, Awol one, Massmen, Peace, St. Mark, Hip Hop Klan, Visionaries, Luciano, U Roy, Prince Jazzbo, Sizzla, The Upsetters, DJ Krush, Quannum, Gift of Gab, Prince Fari, Undertow, Judge, Bold, Sick of it All, Bad Religion, Via Tania, Daedelus, Madlib, MF Doom, El-P, Cage, Media Darlilng Records, Memphix/Hemphix Records, Dante Carfagna, DJ Shadow, Kut Chemist, KRSONE, Pete Rock & CL Smooth, EPMD, Eric B & Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Special Ed, Medusa, Fugees, Nujabees, 5 Deez, The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, Creation Rebel, Capelton, pole, Kemlus, Susuma Yokota, Autechere, Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Mastadon and on and on...........
The Goonies(All time Fav), the usual suspects, Azumi, Hero, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, the Hidden Fortress, Kill Bill, The Royal Tenebaums, My own private idaho, Blue Velvet, the city of lost children, Amelie, Delicatessen, Snatch, La Hate', Heat, Musa, Bichinmu, Ocean's Eleven, Once upon a time in China I- VI, the Blade, Kiss of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, High Fidelity, seven, Colors, Training Day, El mariachi.... Just can't think of all my favorite movies, but there's alot...
Don't watch TV (Except for 6 Feet Under....)
Memoirs of a Geisha-Arthur Cooke/ Reflections on the Art of Living-Jospeph Cambell/Monkey, A chinese fable/ The I'ching/ Sun Tzu's "Art of War"/Rumi "Islamic Poetry"/ the Baghivad Gita, Hagakure (The Book of the Samurai), The art of Getting over, A Conferderacy of Dunces........
My mother "of Course". Mostly my hero's are the people who have directly affected and helped me to better myself.Including my TM Bredren(Rex 2, Audroc, Pako), Joker, Shok1, East, Gear, Scribe, Jeremy McConnel, Gasp & MK12, Nokturnal Showprint, Will Dixon, Race Bannon, Alphonse Mucha, Ashley Woods and Histories men of vision and character....::Sitting Bull::