I'd like to meet:
more geeks
Music:
Dancehall and World Beat lover; Cheikh Lo, Kassav, Kolo Barst, TV on the Radio, Gil Scott Heron (Who'll Pay Reparations on My Soul), Dennis Brown, Bitty McLean, Micheal Rose, King Sunny Ade, Queen Oladunni, Fela Kuti, Hugh Masekela, Fishbone, Finley Quaye, Sublime, Etta James, Horace Andy, NoTwist, Mirah, Biggie, Vinx, Manu Chao, Blonde Redhead, Garnett Silk, The Mint Juleps, Kassav, Moloko, Jimmy Bosch, Wilson Pickett, RES, Stiffed, System of a Down, Ras Shiloh, Jahmalli, tons of ZOuk & Soukous
Movies:
Night Porter, Come and See, The Red Desert (Michelangelo Antonioni), The Battle of Algiers, All about my Mother (most Almodovar, really), You Me and Everyone We Know, The Indeterminate Woman, Life is to Whistle, Dogville, Jules and Jim, I Heart Huckabees, Touki Bouke, Slingblade, Sankofa,The Lives of Others, Imaginary Heroes, Dancer in the Dark, The Gods Must be Crazy, Raising Victor Vargas, Cool Hand Luke, The Andromeada Strain, Secretary, Juno, Pan's Labryinth and BabyDoll.
Television:
Star Trek: Next Generation (I have a closeted sci fi obsession) , Le Femme Nikita (cheesy TV show with that fine-ass Australian chick). The L Word, Lost,Stargate SG-1, BAttlestar Galactica
Books:
The Bone People (by Keri Hulme), Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed), Bessie Head (everything), Plato's Cave (Susan Sontag), Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B DuBois/the piece on the role of black artists), most Audre Lord, Giovanni's Room, (Baldwin), Ocatavia Paz, Shel Silverstein, Octavia Butler (especially Wildseed), everthing by Kathy Acker, Temple of my Familiar (Alice Walker), The Kin of Ata, Their Eyes were Watching God (Best Love Story--Zora Neale Hurston), Death in Venice (Thomas Mann), The Salt Eaters (Toni Cade Bambara), The Lover (Duras), Black Empire (Schyuler), Sisters of the Yam (bell hooks), Dune (Frank Herbert), Fantasies of the Master Race (Ward Churchill--about the mental & physical colonization of Native American Tribes), Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, Tar Baby (Morrison),The Kin of Ata are Waiting, and the Alchemist (really adore writers who are abe to transform a quiet truth into fiction that's both simple and beautiful which, by the way, is the same criteria physicists know to be true of the universal building blocks
Heroes:
eva hesse, octavia butler, carrie mae weems, barbara kruger, alice walker, michelangelo Antonioni, norman jean roy, michel comte, ishmael reed, bell hooks, sebastiao salgado, and my neice leila.