Beside music and traveling, I love sushi (gotta have it at least one a week), wines (mostly reds – especially Spanish Riojas), family, friends, scuba diving, snowboarding, mountain biking (man I miss it…couldn't do it much in Chicago), art (impressionists like Renoir, Monet, and Van Gogh, and Dali...Chagall).....nothing like a nice dinner, bottle of wine, and good company...too many things to list!
In life...would love to meet Al Gore, Bono, Quiny Jones, Michael Moore, John Williams, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Bill Gates, & Steve Jobbs...Nelson Mandella, Bill Clinton,...a few other world leaders. As far as some beautiful women I'd like to meet....Paula Patton...Cassie...Penelope Cruz...Eva Mendez...Sarah Wayne Callies...Jennifer Esposito...Nia Long...Salma Hayek...Vanessa Marcil...Eva Longria...Tia Carrera...Jessica Alba...Sandra Bullock...Tina Fey...Alyssa Milano...Stacie Orrico...you get the type. Woman who, after meeting once, appear to be my ideal woman... Halle Barry...Esperanza Spalding....eh...nuff said.
Hip-Hop, house, techno, reggae, bosanova, soca, dancehall, jazz, jungle, etc...stuff like Jamiroquai, Depeche Mode, REM, TMBG, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplin, Bad Religion, NOFX, Sex Pistols, Coldplay, Phish, James Brown, Jurassic 5, Blackalicious, Manu Chao, Jarabe de Palo, Aesop Rock, Lyrics Born, Lateef the Truth Speaker, Mr. Lif, The Perceptionist, De la Soul, Raphael Saadiq, U2, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Massive Attack, Living Colour, Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Bobby McFerrin, Wayman Tinsdale, Bob Marley, Prince, Common, Musiq Soulchild, Keb Mo, Esperanza Spalding, Tribe Called Quest, Talib Kwali, Mos Def, Musiq Soulchild, Kool Mo Dee, KRS One, Cold Crush Brothers, Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew, Lenny Kravitz, Morcheeba, Portishead, Tricky, Hooverphonic, Esthero, Rise Against, Cut Chemist, Dj Shadow, Grupa MoCarta, Vassy, etc......and of course the endorsers I work with are inspirational...fan of them all.
Dead Poets Society, 5th Element, Boondock Saints, Crash, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., Office Space, Wall Street, Hero, Neverwas, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Princess Mononoke, ...geeez...I like so many...at the same time I haven't seen so many...I guess that list is a good start.
I don't watch a lot of TV but ones that stick out that I used to watch are Russell Simmons' Def Poetry, Simpsons, West Wing, History Channel, CSI, CSI-Miami, Law & Order, Law & Order:CI
Hmmm...loved Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton books when I was a kid...various pop culture books...can't remember them all but I do remember "Vurt" by Jeff Noon
Musical Heroes: Bobby McFerrin, Yo Yo Ma, John Williams
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