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Jon Roper

All Right Gentleman, I'm taking over now... (Jonathan Jackson)

About Me

Have Many kids -- Six(luv 'em to death). Trying to earn my place on that space ship--don't think we're gonna be on earth forever. Living a wonderful life. The CLD of my pride. Looking for talented folks who love what they do, who don't need a dollar for inspiration to create great artistic expressions. Building a wonderful media organization. Wish Hip Hop would go back to its beginnings when I was a kid on those hot summer days on 110th Street, when ghetto children brought their parents music to the street and celebrated!!!

My Interests

learning, my children, my wife

I'd like to meet:

Donny Hathaway, My Grandmother, her mother, her mother, her mother and her mother and ask them how they got over.

Music:

Anything from someone's soul--a sunbeam doesn't have an ego

Movies:

Once Upon a Time in America, City of God, Fame, Soul'd Out, The House: Frater Non Sum? "Autumn Leaves

Television:

Boondocks, Good "Damn, Damn, Damn" Times, For some silly reason "My Sweet Sixteen"---amazed that people are that insecure to spend so much money on their children, when children in Africa can't drink clean water--let's be great America, let's be great!!!!

Books:

The Price of the Ticket, The Power of Now, Titan--J.D. Rockefeller's biography, Manchild in The Promiseland, Their Eyes Where Watching God, Neal Gabler's Walt Disney Book, Souls of My Brothers

Heroes:

Jesus Christ, any man or woman who takes care of and loves their children...

My Blog

My Horse and Buggy made it to the 20th Century

I'm just getting use to the new technolgy.  Though I ain't against it, if I don't have any use for it I don't use it.  But I'm good. The fam is good. Banjo's good.  We're doing it like&...
Posted by J Ro on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 07:06:00 PST