Packing my bags and gettin' the hell out the country like Im a fugitive. the music industry, books (they comfort me), stand up comedy, intellectual banter, green tea, cinema, lip gloss, nappy hair, apple martinis, genuine people, win-win situations, veggin' out on netflix movies, foreign urban movements, tattoos-but I have none, visualizing my costal hideaway, eatin' good, learning languages, cool kickin' it, foreign & east coast boys, street markets, festivals, dancin'-samba,salsa,forro, zouk, people I can be silly with, singing while driving, cultural niches, sticky summer nights, arte, acoustic versions, beijinhos/besitos, mid day naps and general laziness, existentialism, live music shows, DJs that make my body whine, Brazilian cut jeans, new adventures, marching to my own drum.
Be Kinky, Be Classy, Be Tough, Be Different, Be Leather. Leather: Urban Lifestyle, Fashion, Music, Beauty, and More! Coming July 2007
Heavy Rotation: Sake1 and J-Boogie-"Leftism Pt. 2 Electric Boogaloo"-Seemless mixes. Great Artists-Jazzy Jeff, Kelis, Bugz in the Attic, Sergio Mendes ect... havent heard anything good like this since DJ Jamad's "Afromentals" Generally Me Gusta: real Hip Hop, Soul, Jazzz, Smooth R&B, breaks, house, Bossa Nova, Tropicalia, Forro,Samba, Musica Popular Brasileira(MPB), Emo, classic and moody rock, indie stuff, roots reggae, electronica, rump shakin' dance hall, Zouk and Kizomba (African Salsa),
bomb vocals from any genre (including Country Music), weird sh*t like Portuguese fado.
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I loves movies! Indie dramas, Psycological thrillers, unconventional romances, documentaries, mafia/drug trafficking movies futuristic flicks, errie (not bloody!) horror. Spike Lee, Steve Buscemi, Sofia Coppola, Jamie Fox, Uma Thurman, Angela Bassett, Woody Allen, Scarlet Johanssen, Penelope Cruz, Quentin Tarantino, Jonny Depp, Ed Norton, Natalie Portman, Ben Kingsley, Al Pacino, P. Almodovar, F. Fellini, Lawrence Fischburn, Adrien Brody, Richard Gere, Tim Roth, Gael Garcia Bernal, Mosdef, Mel Brooks....
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The Tudors. The Sopranos (didnt see the finale yet so dont tell me!!!), Big Love, Entourage,Sex and the City, Adult Swim, E True Hollywood Story, City Confidential/Snapped, Chappelle Show, The Simpsons, In Living Color, Saturday Night Live (in early 2000), Mad TV (sketch comedy makes me happy), Black shows from the 80's/90s, Martin, New York Undercover, A Different World, Cidade dos Homens,The Daily Show, Bill Maher, Jeapoardy, The Travel Channel,Sundance and IFC, History Channel-Documentaries, science shows with wild animals,nature, astronomy,health oddities, and random nerdy stuff.
"THERE ARE NO LAURELS FOR THE BEAUTY OR BRILLIANCE OF A WOMEN WHO PLAYS NO ONES GAME" Revisiting Ana Castillo's Loverboys. Other favs: Another Country by James Baldwin, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint de Exupery, Eros and Civilization by Herbert Marcuse, The Bible, Autobiography of Malcolm X,If you give a mouse a cookie by Laura Joffe, The Priest Fainted by Catherine Davidson, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntosake Shange, The Beach by Alex Garland, Assata, Paradise & Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, I know this much is true by Wally Lamb, Love Poems by Nikki Giovanni, How to be Carioca by Priscilla Anne Goslin, Sisterhood is Powerful: Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement...I love autobiographies of social dissidents and traveller tales.
My momma, Great-Grandparents, all the people that struggled with me in mind. Single mothers, good daddys, Malcolm X, JC and The Christlike. Assata. Strong women, the good that prosper. People of wisdom, strength, honesty & courage.