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EricaMichele

Love is cooperation rather than competition and is the force behind the will of god.

About Me

crazy, silly, sexy, ambitious, driven, and extremely loyal


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My Interests



cooking, shopping, music (i'm game for any genre from hip hop to showtunes), football, photography (not the fancy kind though the throw away camera kind), scenic walks/hikes, chilling at/near ocean, listening to my ipod, coffee, reading magazines

I'd like to meet:

Those who I have lost contact with, friends of friends and people who are about doing something, who follow their dreams despite the obstacles.....

POTENTIAL FRIENDS BEWARE: IF I DO NOT KNOW YOU I AM NOT GOING TO RESPOND TO YOUR MESSAGES OR YOUR FRIEND REQUESTS, I AM NOT ON MYSPACE TO DATE, BUT TO RECONNECT WITH OLD FRIENDS AND TO NETWORK. IF YOU ARE NOT MY FRIEND OR A GOOD FRIEND OF ONE OF MY FRIENDS LET'S NOT WASTE EACH OTHERS TIME.




Music:

OUTKAST, Earth Wind & Fire, Donny Hathaway, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, James Brown, Luther Vandross, Chaka Khan, Rick James, Levert, Corrine Bailey Rae, Kanye West, John Legend, Common, Fonzworth Bentley, GLC, Consequence, Sa-Ra, A Tribe Called Quest, DIPSET, Biggie,Bun B/Pimp C/UGK, Paul Wall, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Fela Kuti, Jeezy, Sade, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Usher, Marvin Gaye, Bilal, Ludacris, , Madonna, No Doubt/Gwen Stefani, Jimi Hendrix, Jay-Z, Lenny Kravitz, Frank Sinatra, Al Green, Maroon 5

Movies:

Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, STAR WARS TRILOGY, Goodfellas, Heat, Godfather, Casino, The Matrix (1), Love Jones, brown sugar, Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon, City of God, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Boomerang, Old School, Friday, Half Baked, Coming to America, Shrek, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Talladega Nights (this movie is hilarity)

Television:

ANTM, Project Runway, Grey's Anatomy, Oprah, Good Eats, Vanished, Flavor of Love

Books:

Baby Brother Blues, The Alchemist, By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Parable of the Sower, Memoirs of a Geisha

Heroes:

My heroes are all those people who paved their OWN way despite what others thought of them.
Marcelita V. Haynes (AKA my momma), Kimberly Renee Bailey (aka my bff-R.I.P), Nia I. Dawson and Joi T. Thurman (my bffs), Summer Simmons (my sister, kinda), Malcolm X, OPRAH, Quincy Jones, the people who invented espresso and the latte...more to come. . .

My Blog

Inspiration of the Week-Russell Simmons

Stress Doesn't Equal Hard WorkWork your hardest on the job in front of you right now and don't worry about the past or the future. The more you worry about the future, the less engaged you are in the ...
Posted by EricaMichele on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:00 PST

Reps

even the smartest woman can find herself prey to the one huge problem with most realtionships, especially those between men and women---misccomunicationeither we dont ever say how we really feel cause...
Posted by EricaMichele on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:23:00 PST

Things I Am Feeling Right Now

Been reading Russell Simmons new book for work-BUT I highly recommend that everyone check it out. OR better yet, give a copy as a graduation gift.  In his new book "Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the...
Posted by EricaMichele on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:14:00 PST

inspiration from steve jobs

a few blurbs from Steve Jobs 2005 Stanford Commencement speech: "Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I lov...
Posted by EricaMichele on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:50:00 PST

Rev Run's word of the day . . .

My sister Karen posted these words---and God must be speaking through Rev Run cuase I really needed to hear this today.... Enjoy---   Never let past hurts turn into resentment. When you resentsom...
Posted by EricaMichele on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 03:49:00 PST

situations on my mind. . .

The worst feeling in the world has got to be rejection.  But there are numerous forms and types of rejection.  There is the actor getting rejected the movie/tv role.  There is the artis...
Posted by EricaMichele on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:44:00 PST

incense scented thoughts. . .

I am sitting here watching the VMA's and the clear push for a return to rock and watching as pop culture makes an attempt to erase hip hop (kinda a punishment for her being a bad girl--after all she a...
Posted by EricaMichele on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 08:08:00 PST

A Response to fertilemind re: I Used To Love H.E.R.

I don't know exactly when it was that I fell in love with music.  I am by no means a musician--i don't play any instrument, my mom doesn't play, I am no singer, nada.  But, for as long as I ...
Posted by EricaMichele on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST

Don't Phuck With My Man

I looked up yesterday and realized that a year ago Nia and I escaped LA with all our shiite and our two cats.  We weren't really ready to move in retrospect---but we came nonetheless.  ...
Posted by EricaMichele on Fri, 26 May 2006 04:26:00 PST

interviewing

so going on an interview, looking for a job--well yeah that shit SUCKS. now don't get me wrong i understand that i am lucky that my resume brought me in for an interview, and it WAS the intervie...
Posted by EricaMichele on Thu, 18 May 2006 02:52:00 PST