Reading, world history, dancing, concerts, movies...having fun!!!
I'd like to meet:
On myspace? Old friends! New ones welcome too!
Music:
Fela Kuti, Goapele, Journey (yes, I like Journey), Jill Scott, Erykah, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, El DeBarge ;-), Luther Vandross, all things Lite FM (today's hits and yesterday's favorites!), Les Nubians, Viviane Ndour, Magic Systeme, Bilal, Common, Cee-Lo, Outkast, Queen, Bennie Mardones (She's just 16 years old...), Fleetwood Mac, Al Hint (and his anomoly hit Harlem Hendoo...check it out!)
Movies:
The Last Samurai, Crash, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Coming to America, Motorcycle Diaries, Frida, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil Se, Lagaan, Geulwaar, Mission Impossible (just the first one), Dirty Dancing, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle (one time for the Asian Invasion!)
Television:
Law & Order (the original and SVU), Grey's Anatomy, and as painful as they are...awards shows
Books:
Origin of Capitalism, anything by Vandana Shiva, anything by Samir Amin, The God of Small Things, The Farming of Bones, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mansa Musa (a children's book - absolutely beautiful!), anything by Cheikh Anta Diop, Boubacar Barry is good too, Of the Water and the Spirit, The Prophet
Heroes:
Fashion heroes: Joan Clayton, Missy Elliot. Leadership heroes: Attila the Hun, Makeda (aka the Queen of Saba or Sheba). Intellectual heroes: Vandana Shiva, Samir Amin, Ayele Bekerie, James Turner, Malcolm X.
