Hip Hop, Live Funk Bands, High Performance Cars, Film-making,Reading/Writing Scripts, Hi-Def Technology, Italy, Intellectual conversation, Latest electronic gadgets from Japan, Real Estate investment, Psychoanalysis, vintage swiss watches, Sushi, real people.
Intelligent and beautiful women whose mind is equal to their looks, Captains of Industry, Real Estate Developers, Middle Eastern Royalty, Artists who move records from the trunk of their car and all true Players in between. Downlow intellectuals who front as players/playettes...
Ice Cube, Melle Mel, Marvin Gaye, Big Daddy Kane, Stereo Crew, Rakim, James Brown, Ohio Players, Bar-Kays, General Caine, The Time, Cameo, Parliafunkadelicment & associated projects including Quazar, Mutiny and Sweat Band, Davy DMX, Chaka Khan, Sly & Family Stone, Ike & Tina Turner, Prince, Bobby Womack, Coldcrush Bros, Ebonee Webb (Allen Jones), Curtis Mayfield, DJ Quik, Art Of Origin, Ice-T, Raphael Saadiq, Don Blackman, Pretty Tone Capone & Mobstyle, Syl Johnson, Main Source, Rhonda Smith, Joi (Amoeba Cleansing Syndrome), Roy Ayers, Stevie Wonder, Madhouse 8, 16 & 24, Gettovets, Sade, Steady B, E-A-Ski, Lightning Rod Hustlers Convention, Diana Krall, Mandrill, The Reddings -etc etc etc ...too many to mention
Blaxploitation flicks from 1970s (Willie Dynamite, Superfly & TNT, Hell Up in Harlem, The Hitter, Candy Tangerine Man, Sweet Jesus Preacherman, Gordon's War & more & more & more, Film Noir, European Flicks from the 50s and 60s,independent flicks. A few favorites: The Last Seduction, Any Jet Li,Lost In Translation, The Killers (1946), Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, House Of The Flying Daggers, Coming To America, The Parallax View,any Billy Wilder, Double Indemnity, Houseguest,Jacques Tati, Usual Suspects, The Hustler, Devil In A Blue Dress, Elevator To The Gallows, Rififi (original), Louis Malle, Orson Welles, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Star Wars, most well written independent flicks that have a creative edge. Best film of all time Peter Sellers / Blake Edwards' 'The Party'
Don't watch TV except for "The Sopranos" or back in the day "Miami Vice". That's it.
Political biographies, philosophy, psychiatry, Nietzsche, Marcel Proust, theology, Iceberg Slim, ancient Japanese samurai scrolls, Mr T's Autobiography. Anything and everything. I read all the time, feed your mind and your ass will follow.
Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, Albert Einstein, all unsung heroes that make a difference to humanity and to people's lives. And the person who invented the automatic split second chronograph. ..