+: my heritage, music, art, sex, love, ghettos, spanish food, family, connections, communication, energy, sunglasses in the winter, photography, the new pop, bringing art to night life, making people smile, vegan food, veganism, women (philogynist), books, environment, tofu, other dimensions of crunk, polaroids, minolta x-700, nikon fm 10, black & white, film, fixer, developer, stop bath, darkrooms, bringing creativeness within the technology driven world
-: racism, discrimination, homophobia, misogyny, and ignorance, judging before hand, people who don't see the "point" in books, people who don't think films are significant, people who do not think art is significant, snobs, arrogance, technology
I'd like to meet:
My niece.. Maya Rae Banks..
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Music:
the supremes, four tops, the temptations, stevie wonder, marvin gaye, marv johnson, the isley brothers, billie holiday, nina simon, the jackson 5, smokey robinson, lionel richie, prince, j dilla, jaylib, madlib, peanut butter wolf, dudley perkins, georgia anne muldrow, notorious b.i.g, lost boyz, nas, mobb deep, rakim, gang starr, wu-tang clan, slick rick, epmd, dj jazzy jeff & the fresh prince, beastie boys, de la soul, a tribe called quest, dr. dre, snoop dogg, tupac shakur, (old) dmx, (old) jay-z, three six mafia, lil wayne, mos def, slum village, erykah badu, pharoahe monch, talib kweli, the roots, t.i., outkast, sister gertrude morgan, king britt, common, immortal technique, the fugees, j*davey, mikey factz, theophilus london, bad brains, minor threat, casey jones, champion, gorilla biscuits, olde york, carry on, blood for blood, ceremony, comeback kid, side by side, turning point, 25 ta life, converge, earth crisis, first blood, floorpunch, good clean fun, have heart, kid dynamite, kill your idols, modern life is war, xlooking forwardx, tragedy, 7 seconds, battery, outburst, ignite, shelter, negative approach, charles bronson, crippled youth, drugxtest, inside out, ds-13, cold way, betrayed, hoods, insane fight, rambo, hold x true, madball, skarhead, justice league, ten yard fight, floorpunch, down to nothing, american nightmare, cro-mags, astrobrite, mae shi, xiu xiu, the plot to blow up the eiffel tower, boris, mogwai, mono, meneguar, deerhoof, the weird weeds, boyracer, the paper chase, matt and kim, julie doiron, antony and the johnsons, iron and wine, headphones, orenda fink, four tet, broken social scene, the one AM radio, you get the point...
Television:
t.v. is poison, read a book.
but of course, i have my guilty pleasures.
sex and the city, l-word, queer as folk,
Heroes:
guyana, venezuela, my mother, my grandfather, jeremy toussaint baptiste, yego moravia st. victor, tone, trevz, katie longmyer, sarah friedman, MLK, Malcolm-X, Nelson Mandela, people that contain so much passion they have no clue what to do with it, people that want and create change - those are the people i want to roll with.
