Music, Poetry, Dance, Travel
I'd like to meet:
Righteous people, deep thinkers, artists of no specific genre, everyone and anyone...I'll find poetic beauty in you some way, I promise.
Music:
Everything.....but I love music of the soul...Floetry, India Arie, Dwele, Musiq Soulchild, Mary J. Blige, Faith Evans, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Lucy Pearl, Amel Laurriex, Alicia Keys, Bilal, Lauryn Hill, The Roots, Les Nubians, Jamiroquai, Beautifully Blessed Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Lalah Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, Frank Sinatra, Earth Wind & Fire, Kirk Franklin, Natalie Wilson & SOP, Fred Hammond, Winans, Lenny Kravitz, Red Hot Chillis, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Tripdavon, Creed, Duran Duran, Police, Culture Club, Etta James, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Wynton Marsalis, Phillipe Saisse, Brian Tarquin, Norman Brown, Steely Dan, Spyro Gyra, Miles Davis, Loston Harris, The Infamous Mobb Deep, Tribe Called Quest, De La Sol, Eric Sermon, EPMD, Black Moon, Lupe Fiasco, El Gran Combo, Oscar D'Leon, Tito Nieves, Tito Rojas, Tito Puente, George Lamond, Tego Calederon, Johnny Cash...House music all night long......
Movies:
I'm not a big fan of Hollywood, I find myself watching a lot more indie films. But, here are a couple of blockbusters I liked:Lord of the Rings (all of them, with the extended footage), Rain Man, The Color Purple, Erin Brockovich, Apocalyse Now, Greatest Story Ever Told, The Ten Commandments, Old School, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, anything with Audrey Hepburn or Cary Grant, Napoleon Dynamite, Walk The Line, Little Miss Sunshine
Television:
House, Jeopardy!, and all of those annoying, reality do-it-yourself home improvement shows.
Books:
I have one available through Xulon Press and I desperately need to sell more copies...Some recent ones that I dug: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Marley & Me, by John Grogan...Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert...The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis...Paterson by William Carlos Williams...A Ring of Endless Light by Madeline L'Engle...The Soul of Politics by Jim Wallis
Poets...Pound, TS Elliot, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Plath, Poe, Hughes, Yeats, Rumi, Pablo Neruda, Sappho.... the American modernist, classics...also contemporary urban rhyme by various artists and various Eastern poets.Novelists/Playrights/Essayists...Alice Walker, Arthur Miller, CS Lewis, John Steinbeck, JRR Tolkien, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, JD Salinger, Betty Smith, Laren Stover, Madeline L'Engle, Philip Yancey, Donald S. Whitney, Jim Wallis...American classics, urban contemporary, contemporary Christian, fantasy, or historical and/or fact-based fiction.Most inspiration comes from careful study of the handbook for everyday living....the Bible, which in my humble opinion, contains the most beautiful poetry ever written.
