Reading, Playing guitar, Enjoying Life, jumping to conclusions, poetry, plotting world domination, committing random acts of childish behavior, parkeur, capoeira (soon, oh yes, soon)
I've finally met a woman who gets my sense of humor, who loves life, likes to play, has a great sense of humor and let's not lie, looks good. Yay Maya. Finally, a woman who gets me, and who's just as geeky as I am, if not more so. Barack Obama, the first Black president
Soul, Hip Hop - not Rap, but Hip Hop, Blues, The Roots, Robert Johnson, Ella, Duke, Common, Black Star, Sam Cooke, Temptations, Jimi, Elmore James, Etta James, Otis redding, Jackie Wilson, Sam Cooke, The Beatles, Howlin Wolf, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Bob Marley, Musicals. Yeah that's right, I admit it, I'm a straight man that likes musical theatre. Have her home by ten, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Donavon Frankenreiter
Great White Hope, Uptown Saturday Night, Reservoir Dogs, School Daze, Waiting for Guffman, Empire Strikes Back, the original Star Wars trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, LOTR trilogy, Deep Cover, Stir Crazy, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mo Better Blues, Half Baked, Casablanca, Animal Crackers, Lagan
The Boondocks, Family Guy, Futurama, The Venture Brothers, Paranoia Agent, Superfriends, Samurai Champloo, Alias, Forensic Files, The first 48, all of those real life forensic shows, Mad TV, The Simpsons, Inside The Actor's Studio, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Aqua Teen Hunger Force Ok, the Whole Adult Swim block.
Siddartha, George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, It, Tao Te Ching, Song of Solomon, Confederacy of Dunces, The Spook Who sat by the door, Any Stephen King, any Jeffrey Deaver, High Fidelity, About a Boy, Where the Sidewalk Ends, White teeth, any Octavia Butler, any Robert Heinlein
My maternal grandfather. He raised 13 kids on a janitor's salary in rural Virginia. All of them went to college. My Mom. My Dad. All the seekers of knowledge and wisdom that ever were.