Smoky cafes, perfect strangers, verbal intercourse, foreigners, accents, Africa, Asia, Oceania, cigar bars, subtitles, headphones, textbooks, magazines, comic books, black & white photography, art deco, graffiti, graphic design, gnosis.
I'd like to meet:
Artists, writers, designers, nerds, otakus, pimps, players, strippers, hustlers, collectors, b-boys, b-girls, biters, bombers, skaters, taggers, readers, dreamers, doers, tatooers, wannabees, gonnabees, monks, punks, whores, luchadores...and you.
Music:
Run-DMC [Rock Box], Portishead [Roseland NYC Live], Massive Attack [Protection], Buena Vista Social Club [Self-titled], Maxwell [Urban Hang Suite], Ghostface [Pretty Tony Album], Esthero [Breath From Another], Morcheeba [Who Can You Trust?], Marvin Gaye [I Want You], Miles Davis [Kind of Blue], John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman [Self-titled], Curtis Mayfield [Super Fly], James Brown [In the Jungle Groove], Sade [Lover's Rock], Bob Marley [African Herbsman], Burning Spear [Marcus Garvey], Bjork [Post], Frank Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim [Self-titled], Gipsy Kings [Cantos De Amor], Sting [Nothing Like the Sun], Celia Cruz [La Negra Tiene Tumbao] Nas [Street's Disciple]
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Movies:
Soy Cuba (I Am Cuba), Coffy, Belly, Blade Runner, Brazil, Casablanca, Metropolis, Orpheu Negro (Black Orpheus), Il Postino (The Postman), Grave of the Fireflies, Citizen Kane, Ghost in the Shell, Khuda Gawah (God is My Witness), Gattaca, The Fifth Element, 5 Fingers of Death, Enter the Dragon, Lost in Translation, Miel Para Oshun (Honey for Oshun)...anything by Akira Kurosawa, Quentin Tarantino or Wong Kar Wai
Books:
Return of the Dark Knight [Frank Miller], Man, God and Civilization [John G. Jackson], Bomb the Suburbs [William Upski Wimsatt], Twenty Love Poems: And a Song of Despair [Pablo Neruda], Ishmael [Daniel Quinn], The Da Vinci Code [Daniel Brown], The Gospel of Thomas [Marvin Meyer], The Cat in the Hat [Dr. Seuss], The Glance: Songs of Soul Meeting [Rumi], Anacalypsis - The Saitic Isis: Languages, Nations and Religions [Sir Godfrey Higgins], In His Image: Haile Selassie, Bob Marley and the Second Coming of Christ [St. Paco]
Heroes:
Muhammad Ali, Bruce Lee
