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Music, Music, Music,
and is there anything else?
CHANGING THE WORLD WE LIVE IN...and YOUR perception of it! :) Excellent books, TRAVELING the world, meeting amazing people, helping people, great food, and anything that involves my incredible friends and family.
I love to do the damn thang and shake my ass on the dance floor..
Dead or Alive? Not necessarily in this order but... NELSON MANDELA!! The Dalai Lama, OPRAH, Gloria Steinem, Jose Marti, Indira Gandhi, El Che, Ghandi, Krishnamurti, Pablo Neruda, Toni Morrison, Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Sade, GENUINELY nice people who make me laugh, brownie bakers, turntablists, anthropologists, spiritual beings, and how about some revolutionaries? cuz babylon nah use dem brain! (and if u know where i got that last line, i want to meet u too)AND OF COURSE PEOPLE WHO...
Almost every damn type except country! THERE ARE TOO MANY ARTISTS FOR ME TO ATTEMPT TO LIST! I COULD GO CRAZY... GENRES: Reggae, Culture, Roots, Dub, Hip-Hop (when it had a soul), and occasionally when it doesn't if i'm in that kind of mood... Dancehall, Some Drum and Bass, Jazz, Classical, R&B, NeoSoul, Old School Funk, Rock, Lounge, Salsa, Merengue, Samba, Kompa, Soca, Bossa-Nova, Forro, and all music from the countries of the globe! LOVE LOVE LOVE MY TURNTABLES...
Mostly foreign films, once you go there, you rarely go back... Baraka,WATER, A Homem Que Copiava,CITY OF GOD, What the Bleep do we know?, Amores Perros, Dave Chapelle's Block Party, Winter, Spring, Summer, and Spring Again, House of Flying Daggars, Hero, 3 Iron, Crash, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Rabbit Proof Fence, Lumumba, Nueve Reinas Habla Con Ella, El Crimen de Padre Amaro, Sex and Lucia, Kings of Comedy, Secuestro Express, and Shottas! j/k DOCUMENTARIES THAT MUST BE SEEN: THE CORPORATION (IT WILL CHANGE YOU) LIFE AND DEBT, BORN INTO BROTHELS,REFUGEE ALL STARS, THE AGRONOMIST, WAL-MART, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH! JUST TO NAME A FEW...
Don't have cable, by choice. HOWEVER, NEXT TIME YOU TURN ON THE TV REMEMBER THEY WONT TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON IN THE WORLD... CHECK OUT SOME CONSCIOUS WEBSITES INSTEAD OF MINDLESS ENTERTAINMENT: WWW.KEEPACHILDALIVE.ORG WWW.SAVEDARFUR.ORG WWW.FREETIBET.ORG WWW.CARE.ORG WWW.AFESIP.ORG WWW.HEIFER.ORG WWW.AMNESTY.ORG WWW.SAVETHECHILDREN.ORG WWW.CAMPAIGNFOR EDUCATION.ORG WWW.GLOBALFUNDFORWOMEN.ORG WWW.MAKETRADEFAIR.ORG WWW.CORPORATEWATCH.ORG WWW.INDYMEDIA.ORG WWW.ORPHANSINAFRICA.ORG
Wow... too many to name- A few of top pics: The Hummingbird's Daughter, They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky, A Fine Balance, White Teeth, The Hispanic Condition, Power Politics, World on Fire, The Kite Runner, The Life of Pi, Autobiography of my Mother, The Life of Buddha, Shantaram, Such a Long Journey, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Harmony Silk Factory, Breath, Eyes, Memory, Paradise, Catch a Fire, A Hundred Years of Solitude, On Beauty, The God of Small Things, Upside Down, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Love in the time of Cholera, I Know this much is True, Sister of my Heart, I could go on and on and on...
SOMALY MAM!!!!!!!VISIT WWW.AFESIP.ORG!!!!!!!! NELSON MANDELA, ARUNDHATI ROY, INDIRA GHANDI, CESAR CHAVEZ, MY PARENTS, PATRICE LUMUMBA! AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TO POSITIVE CHANGE! AYAAN HIRSI ALI