I love percussion and dance and the language between the two. I love troubleshooting any situation. I love vynil records in all their majesty and finding that rare copy at that record store makin' your knees weak. Did I mention traveling? Yeah, even though I don't get to do it near enough.
Manu Dibango, Bob Marley, Burning Spear, Jimmy Cliff, Hossam Ramzy, Shafaatullah Khan, Issam Houshan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, SUN RA!!, Common, GZA, RZA, WU-Tang, Goodie Mob, A Tribe Called Quest, Talib Qweli, MOS DEF, NAS, Def Jux folks (well most em), Roland Kirk, Prefuse 73, Beastie Boys, Primus, Ween, Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum of Natural History, James Carter, Shawna P, Chris West, Guy Smiley Blues Exchange, Yellow Man, Junior Murvin, Peter Tosh, Paul Simon, Babatunde Olatunji, Deep Thinkers, John Legend, Rahzel, De La Soul, Roots, Jay Dilla (RIP), Madlib, The Coup, Atmosphere, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Erykah Badoo, India Arie, Jonie Mitchell, Janis Joplin, James Brown, P-FUnk, Tina Marie, Curtis Mayfield, Issac Hayes, Otis Redding, Earth Wind and Fire, Om Kalsoum, Salamat, Natasha Atlas, Mark Farina, DJ Shadow, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, The Dynamites,Old School Funk, Stevie Wonder, DJ SS, Doc Martin, Portishead, MF Doom, The Swarm, Hakim, The Beatles, Led Zepplin, Crisis, Audiophonix, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Photek, Pharcyde,...Oh fuck it I can't list them all and I'm tired! I dig it all as long as it is good...for me of course.
Grrrr, uhhh, hmmm. Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun, Snatch, Kung Fu movies, Magnolia, Kevin Smith movies,What The Bleep Do We Know?, ahh gees the list just gets bigger.
My recomendation is stay away from it, but if I am to watch something it is probably discovery, history channel, CSI or some forensic show.
Hidden Messages In Water,Celestine Prophecy,Quantum Mechanics books even though its hard for me to unerstand and takes me years to read.
I admire and am inspired by my boyfriend who I can only hope to be as talented someday (Luv ya Chris W.) and my Ma who goes with out saying.