Writing, making a variety of music on my humongous 88-key studio-grade keyboard, playing pool, photography, basketball games (Go Spurs!) and travel.
Musicians, writers, actors, idealists, nerds, extraterrestrial beings, ghosts, cartoon characters, mystics, nuts, eccentrics, people who consider ice cream a finger food, people who debate whether ice cream sandwiches are better made with white or wheat bread, people who make green beans by applying green food dye to navy beans, people who hang around crowbars and ask "When's happy hour?, "people who've entered seafood restaurants and expected to find Bugaloo Shrimp on the menus, people who value computer screensavers as cheap entertainment, people I've seen only in dreams. Come one, come all--except those who can't see where I'm joking.
Soul/funk, rock, classical, jazz, Latin, African, blues, pop, experimental, etc. Variety is the spice of life, right?
Drama, action/adventure, historical epics, horror, comedy, etc.
News, Spurs games and whatever I consider worth recording.
Comparative Study Bible, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Telepsychics: Tapping Your Hidden Subconscious Powers, The Millionaire Joshua, Your Sixth Sense: Activating Your Psychic Potential, How To Do Everything Right; The Science of Mind: A Philosophy, A Faith, A Way of Life; The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said, Free Money To Quit Your Job, Outwitting The Job Market, Monster Careers: How To Land The Job of Your Life, Letters of The Century, 20,000 Quips and Quotes, The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs, Why You Say It: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases, Superstitions: The Book of Ancient Lore, Encyclopedia of Gods: Over 2,500 Deities of the World, The Occult: A Sourcebook of Esoteric Wisdom, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gangmember, 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in The Violent World of Girl Gangs, 2001 Ultimate Visual Dictionary, The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, Encylopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Doktor Snake's Voodoo Spell Book, Makes Me Wanna Holler, How Con Games Work, Say You Love Satan, Will Black Holes Devour the Universe? and 100 Other Questions and Answers About Astronomy, Sexual Positions Book Two, Secret Sexual Positions, Sexpertise: 101 Secrets of Total Satisfaction, It Seemed Like A Good Idea: A Compendium of Great Historical Fiascoes, Body Language: The Essential Secrets of Non-Verbal Communication, No Disrespect, The Rage of A Privileged Class, The Joy Luck Club, The Death of Ivan Ilyich, No, All Quiet On The Western Front, The Slave Trade, Suppressed Inventions and Other Discoveries, The Bible Code; I Don't Know What I Want, But I know It's Not This: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Gratifying Work; The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus, Bad As I Wanna Be, Walk On The Wild Side, Rock This!, 1999 Facts About Blacks: A Sourcebook of African-American Accomplishment, Lip Service: The Truth About Women's Darker Side in Love, Sex, and Friendship; The Consumer Bible: 1001 Ways To Shop Smart, The Book of Lists: The 90's Edition, Mark Wilson's Cyclopedia of Magic, The Complete Kama Sutra, The Encyclopedia of Picture Chords for Guitar and Keyboard, African Ancestry Guide to: West and Central Africa, The Basic Guide To How To Read Music, The All Music Guide To Rock, The Rolling Stone Album Guide, The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll, Do-It-Yourself Advertising: Create Marketing Strategies and Advertising that Gets Results!, Encyclopedia of American Cars, Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, The Trouser Press Guide to 90's Rock, Rock: The Essential Album Guide, Reader's Digest New Fix-It-Yourself Manual, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy and Other Misheard Lyrics, He's Got The Whole World In His Pants and More Misheard Lyrics, When A Man Loves A Walnut and Even More Misheard Lyrics, The Violent Bear It Away, Lord of The Flies, The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual: The Journalist's Bible, The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors and Publishers; All The Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide, Cosm.
God, Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, the Twelve Disciples, my father, my mother, my paternal grandparents, my maternal grandparents, my paternal uncles; THEN IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Malcolm X, Betty Shabazz, Martin Luther King Jr, Coretta Scott King, Rosa Parks, Sonia Sanchez, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, Alex Haley, Percy Sutton, Dr. Jonas Salk, Dr. Albert Sabin, Richard Wright, Joan of Arc, Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Shirley Chisholm, Jimmy Carter, John Johnson, Medgar Evers, Jesse Jackson, Jack Johnson, Howard Cosell, Barbara Jordan, Johnnie Cochran, Willie Velasquez, Wilt Chamberlain, Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Mary McLeod Bethune, Bill Russell, Michael Jordan, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, Venus and Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Marcus Garvey, the Black Panther Party, Aretha Franklin, Sister Souljah, Louis Farrakhan, James Earl Jones, Samuel Jackson, Danny Glover, Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige, Bob Marley, The Last Poets, Gil Scott Heron, Frank Zappa, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Prince, Fela Kuti, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis Jr, Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Whoopie Goldberg, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Howard Stern, Wolfman Jack, Joe Anthony, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, the U.S. military, good police officers locally and worldwide, Leonard Pitts, Dr. Richard Pressman, Dr. Elijah Akhahenda, Dr. Rosemary Cutting, Sister Christine Catron, Dr. Anne Semel, SSN; Lucinda Vela-Wicke, Arthur Cavazos, Dr. Sam Patterson, Jack Kemp, Madonna, Donald Trump, Tavis Smiley, Tom Joyner, Robert De Niro, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Ann Richards, John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Franklin Roosevelt, Carl Sagan, Elie Wiesel, worldwide past and present servants of the ministry, Dan Piraro, Joe and Minnie Wilson, Clarissa Davis-Wrightsil, Michael Hornsby, Anthony Linson, Rick Sanchez, Attila The Hun, Joe Jackson (the patriarch of the Jackson Family), Geronimo, Nefertiti, Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Founding Fathers (Like many people I bemoan that some of them were slaveowners. However, I feel they deserve mention for framing the U.S. Constitution. It's also arguable that the eventual abolition of slavery and passage of the Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act would've been impossible without it.), Billy Graham, Pope John Paul II, Pancho Villa, Audie Murphy, Dr. Ruth Westenheimer, Jack Lalane, Mike Wallace, Chris Gardner, Chuck Norris, Avery Johnson, Ernest Holmes, Dr. Cindy Flor, Jose Silva, Tony Bennett, many people worldwide and throughout history unfamiliar to me who've persevered and overcome challenges.