getting out on my bike and exploring the world
cooking, esp if it involves meat and/or a grill
eating, which i enjoy a ton more than cooking (go figure!)
fixing things around the house
vegging out at the Echo Park lake
wasting a ton of money at elf cafe... mmm
Amy Winehouse...mmmm
and Barack, if he can show me how to do that Chicago-style dance
*hip-hop - old school and G-funk, basically anything done with skill and soul. i'm a big fan of talib kweli and common.
*the 70s soul that the aforementioned hip-hop samples
*Ronnie Hudson & the Street People
*60s/70s mod and soul
*1st wave ska and rocksteady (exceptions made for hepcat and the slackers)
*anything by fela kuti or seu jorge
*"hippie music" - stuff like Canned Heat, etc
*assorted- le tigre, radiohead, massive attack, the police, blah blah blah...
frida, real women have curves, american psycho, secretary, the business of strangers, memento, the usual suspects, amelie, dirty pretty things, yes i am an audrey tautou fan, lost in translation, vintage james bond films
THE BOONDOCKS!, weeds, project runway, daily show, colbert report, south park, flavor of love, cowboy bebop, family guy.
The Anarchist's Cookbook... yes!!!
my parents, frida kahlo, che guevara, my cousin mario, my friends kwame and alfredo, laurence fishburne was my hero up until he signed up for those shitty matrix sequels...