Film, Politics, Photography, Writing (I have to do it, it helps keep me sane in this insane world!), People, Food, Urban Life, Hip-Hop Music, All Music, The Hip-Hop Nation as a whole!, Graf, Writing, B-boys and Gurls, Playing Dominoes, Writing, My Dog Rosco (RIP ol' friend, and thanks for crossing the 101 into my life), Cooking, Laughter, Big Cities, Subways, Poetry (That includes an MC's Rhymes. And again it keeps me sane!), Writing Poetry, Eating, Viewing and Pondering Other People's Art, The Revolution (Even if it's not televised), Reading, Writing, Honing the Samurai Within, Anything by Quannum Projects, Chutney, Tattoos, Talkin Story with Friends, Writing, The Bay Area, Being by the Ocean (Water calms me!), Drawing, Painting (With brushes along with Spray Cans), Writing, Knitting, Make-up (The Face is the Most Beautiful Canvas), Fashion, Writing, Stuff and Things...
Someone who: can make me laugh to the point that if I'm drinking something it ends up being shot out of my nose; likes to dance the night away; likes to wander around cities aimlessly; appreciates art; likes to read; isn't bothered by silence; believes in god, ghosts and fairies; I can cry around and not feel like a total sap; likes movies in a similar way that I do; enjoys singing at the top of their lungs; stands up for themselves and others... Or Kathleen Cleaver
I love everything from Gustav Mahler to Mississippi John Hurt, and all that fits inbetween, although what drives me most is hip-hop. Of course if you think of it in terms of Afrika Bambaataa, they too are Hip-Hop! Besides if you think my movies list is long, you ain't seen nothin!
Cinema Paradiso, The Saddest Music in the World, Coffee and Cigerettes (Its a piece of art), Auntie Mame, The Goonies, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Colors Trilogy, Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2, City of Lost Children, Platoon, Amelie, Tupac Ressurection, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Scratch, Amandla, The Three Amigos, Troop Beverly Hills, Casablanca, Malena (Anything From Guiseppe Tornatore), Apocolypse Now, The Godfather 1&2 ( I didn't quite care for 3), Arsenic and Old Lace, His Girl Friday, Beetlejuice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 8 1/2 (Anything by Fellini), Lone Wolf and Cub Series, Alphaville, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Titus, Frida, Empire of the Sun, E.T (I do like Spielberg!) Lost in Translation (The end is so wonderful!), Anything and I mean ANYTHING by Akira Kurosawa, Factory Girl.... I could go on and on until the break of dawn... Which reminds me... Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, and anything by George Romero.
Absolutely Fabulous, I Love Lucy, My So-Called Life, Twin Peaks, Will and Grace, South Park, The Golden Girls, Da Ali G Show, Def Poetry Jam, reality t.v. Trash, Man vs. Wild, Lost, Project Runway and my new addiction TIm Gunn's Show... yeah, I know I watch too much, but bite me!
Assata, Soul on Ice, The Art of War, The Rogue States, The Old Man and the Sea, Go Ask Alice, The Kaffir Boy, Catcher in the Rye, Media Control, D.V., Crime and Punishment, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Literally anything By Noam Chompsky and Maya Angelou, T.S. Elliot's Poetry, Shakespeare (I'm a Dork!), Plays by Christopher Durang, Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Clown Arounds, Sieze the Time, My Dictionary/Thesaurus, The Rose that Grew From Concrete, Dracula, Violin, Code of the Samurai, Soul on Bikes, Can't Stop Won't Stop: The History of Hip-Hop', Holla if you Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur
My Mama (She always gave me more than... Enough to get by... Enough to get fly! Insert awww here!), My Gram Babs (A true O.G. Oh how I miss you my Babs!), My Auntie Anne (You can find her in the parking lot at The Queen Mary... That's an inside joke!), My Unkle Robert (He's the Sane one, other than me of course!), My Cuz Liz (A.K.A. Glitter, and my partner in crime 4 life!), Cody Alder (Queen Bee! Work it, Own it, LOVE IT!), My Dog Roscoe P. GoldChain (He's a survivor!! Until he passed.), Kathleen Cleaver, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, All those who went down for the Struggle, All those that Survived and keep Surviving for the Struggle, Noam Chompsky, Tamara De Lempicka (Isn't it obvious?), Malcom X, Sun Tzu, My 7th & 8th grade teacher Gwenn Philipps, Rainbow Bright and Pippi Longstocking, Coco Chanel, Diana Vreeland, Lucille Ball, Medusa, MLK Jr., Assata Shakur, Akira Kurosawa, Fela Kuti, The Reason I graduated from High School Mrs. Thomas, Bette Davis, Basquiat, Frida Kahlo