music, art, sleep, silence, education, teaching, learning, chillaxin, people moving, laughing, crying, organizing myself + kommunity, youth culture, growing old, head nodding, elevating, knowledge (seekin'/sharin'), being a creamy spy, da masses, procrastinating about painting
HOOK IT UP: God, Doze Green, Jill Scott, Shynola, Charles Mingus, Joems 'n' Jules...ahem, Frida Kahlo, Professor Charles Xavier, my Great Lola, Michelle N'degeocello, Siqueiros, James Jamerson, Malcolm X, Dave Kinsey, Assata Shakur, myself at age 5, my Lolo at age 25, Nessy, bell hooks, Digable Planets, Cienfuegos, Aaron McGruder, Noam Chomsky, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Mars Volta (i've met John briefly, but i'm talkin' human conversation about art / music / life where i don't feel like an geeky fanboy and can just be all, "What's up?"...heh), Ernesto, Banksy, Salma Hayek, Saul Williams (i did, but see The Mars Volta), Rosario Dawson, Mumia Abu Jamal, Nicole Kea / Scherzinger, Kelly Hu, Bob Marley, the Wachowskis, Vanessa Minnillo, myself at age 68, Twist, Uncle Tsetung, Dr. Dre, DJ Shadow, Jessica Alba, Roger, Michael Moore, a real-life Hobbit, Egon Schiele, Lee Perry, my future children, and Cheetara in no particular order.
Anything else that moves my head, heart, or boo-tay. Por ejemplo: Radiohead, Jill Scott, Praxis Roks, Kiwi, Talib Kweli, TV on the Radio, The Mars Volta, Erykah Badu, Common, Mogwai, Charles Mingus, Janet Jackson (pre-surgery ..3), 65 Days of Static, Blue Scholars, Quannum, Sigur Ros, Digable Planets, Aaliyah, Fugazi, The Neptunes, Mos Def, Dead Prez, Outkast, Roni Size, Astrud Gilberto, Justin Timberlake (What!?!?!), System of a Down (in short, controlled blasts), Kanye, Chorus class most of the time, From Monument To Masses.
X-Men 1/2/3, Motorcycle Diaries, Frida, Planet of the Apes (O.G. Movies...phukk Burton's revisionism), Dekada 70, Fight Club, Michael Moore Flicks, Style Wars, Dithers, Stand By Me, Boogie Nights, Princess Mononoke, Spirit Warriors, Scratch, You Are A Target Market, Pump Up the Volume, Lord of the Rings 1/2/3, The Matrix 1/2/3
Project Runway
Battlestar Galactica
Ghost Hunters
Blade: The Series
LOST
Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
OPM Myx Daily (Damn I miss TFC)
Smallville
Yo Momma!
Parental Control & Next! (ha)
Frank Herbert's Dune Books, Ways of Seeing, Return of the King, The Medium is the Message, On Contradiction, Black Power, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Faces At The Bottom Of The Well, Preacher, Philippine Society & Revolution, A Right To Be Hostile: A Boondocks Treasury
(see I'd Like to Meet.)
Anyone strugglin to live right and correct.