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TP Carter

AUTHOR, BEHIND THOSE EYES, A NOVEL-- SEPT 6, US MARKETS RELEASE!!! WWW.TPCARTER.COM FOR INFO

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Malcolm X, Bjork, Castro b4 it's over.TIME OUT: FOLKS ARE ASKING ABOUT MY SECOND BOOK (If they're in DC, they have every right to ask...lol----That's what I was doing in London for the past few months....writing…I'm almost done. Premise of the next one: Insanity --whether it exists or not (how crazy is crazy???), artists, passionate personalities, free spirits….. love that drives one totally nuts....characters are British artists…. it's due next year. Had to wait for the rest of the world to get their chops wet on the first one (BTE). Haven’t named novel #2............ I'll drop a chapter or two on the page in a bit.....BTE HITS STORES SEPT 6TH'06. You can get it anywhere...even at WALMART, i'm hearing...no sht... *LOL*........thanks for asking. -tp

Music:



Hit up www.ifmusic.co.uk if you're not a lazy listener.Okay........................IN THE PLAYER: I"m on some CHLOE DAY sht right now. HIRD'S Movin' on...TELEPOPMUSIK'S Angel Milk... TRICKY AND MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD (carriage for two gave me a wicked scene in book 2) and...USCHI CLASSEN'S Meditative Flow on repeat. OH. Check out DJ SYNFLOOD out fo berlin. dope azz mixes (luv testpress). -peace...........................................INFATUATED WITH: Midaircondo, Anything Aaron Jerome(UK)produces, Cinematic Orchestra, Mother of the Future (Live 10min run)from Bembe, Soulphiction's State of Euphroira (thanks JC) Katherine De Boar of Belleruche (UK) Bonobo, Bajka, Corrine Bailey Rae's ORIGINAL indie release, Democustico, Eska, Tony Allen, dnell, Doves, Fink, Helios, Janita (FIN), Madita, dzhian and K. Mark Hellner, London Elektricity's: Songs in the key of knife (YEA! on some drum/bass sht) Milosh, Mozez (Zero 7)-thanks A, Randy Watson Exp., Thom Yorke's new one, Nitin Sawhney's first one, Psapp, The Rebirth, Roisin Murphy, Limbo experience, Evinha, Kherish, Hannah....................................LOVE ETERNAL: BJORK, Portishead, FIONA APPLE'S: Never Is a Promise...TIDAL is amazing still... Azymuth, Amalgamation of Soundz, 4 Hero, Bilal...(wanna see you with a group of crazy brits in a ROCK band...you're a rocker babe) Carmen McRae, Nina Simone, Radiohead, The Carpenters (All I can do is cry over you...*singing along*) Coldplay, my nig Jig (Jay Z), Comm, Wajeed, Dilla, ZAP MAMA, BADU, The Arch Angel of Soul (get the friggin album out will you D?) Miles/Trane/Dexter G, erro, Zero 7, Tricky.................................STILL BLOWING KISSES TO: Goapele, Gaelle, Jean Claude, Osunlade, Kenny Dope, Adrian Loving, J Davey, Kerri Chandler, Gilles P in...wherever he is, Joe Clausell (Escravos... MWAH!) John Beltran, Peven E, Little Brother, Lauryn, MarkdeClive, Wajeed, Dub Ell (for Admit it...still kicks), RAh D, Soulphiction (last years best house release still spinnin), Theivery...............................tired of typing...this is not my thing but I had to share.

Movies:

city of god, ammore de femme, facing windows, girl interrupted, vanilla sky....anything that f's with my head.

Television:

Don't watch it

Books:

when nietzche wept, the zahir, Eastern Civ Western Mind, my girl zadie smith's writings... the davinci code (was hot on fact fiction... I found my way through The Louvre this summer on Dan's descripton alone-good work) , between lovers, too many to list, HAMLET-the quintessential literary character (they didn't have an insert for plays...) More Socrates than Kant, Less Thoreau than Plato (but i like them both), Anything Nietzche decided to pen on those cold Austrian nights...

Heroes:

my great aunt my great grandma, and mommy.

My Blog

Temptation

4/24/07- Washington, DCI've just been blessed with a soulful revolution in the form of "The Last Temptation of Wes Felton". [W. Ellington Felton] For those not made privy, he's the ying to "Guess Who ...
Posted by TP Carter on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:35:00 PST

BRANDED: The State of Black Fiction, (My Take)

I sit comfortably on a Virgin Atlantic aircraft, in a state of blaze.., manipulating the headrest of a small seat and attempting to fool the flight attendant into believing that I..m wearing a seatbel...
Posted by TP Carter on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 05:30:00 PST

On Gentrification: Sioux City

Lenapi. Iroquois. Navaho. Sioux Cherokee, Nanticoke, Shawnee, LoupNames, faces, shades and tales of tribes swarm through my head in an unduling mantra. This afternoon, after a call to jot some thou...
Posted by TP Carter on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:19:00 PST

Intelligent Music: Why should we care?

Some of you DC residents whom Ive loosely called friends, are wondering where Ive disappeared to. Most of you dont care. Just for kicks, I figure Ill humor the minority. Right now, its 20:15 in Por...
Posted by TP Carter on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:16:00 PST