My general interests include History, Human Rights, Politics, Money, People, Theatre, Music, and anything funny
Barack Obama, Condi, Sade, Tina Turner, Jack Black, Tyler Perry, the entire cast of Mad TV, the lead singer of Portishead, Megan Mullally (the actress who plays Karen on Will and Grace), the entire cast of Ab Fab, oh! and the entire cast of Reno 911!
Ok...this was worth deleting all of my other videos for a minute...The audio is really off but I am so delighted to have found this! 1957, Ella singing with Count Bassie's band!!!! This is arguably one of the best voices ever!
Ella, Dinah, Aretha, Whitney (Hell to the naw!!), Nina Simone, Stevie (Wonder and Nicks!), Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, The Cure, Janis Joplin, Curtis Mayfield (The Impressions), Harold Melvin (The Blue Notes), Ibrahim Ferrer (Buena Vista Social Club), Santana, The O'Jays, Sly and The Family Stone, Earth Wind and Fire, The Clark Sisters, Mahalia Jackson, Candy Stanton, The Doors, Led Zeplin, The Emotions, Fiona Apple, Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack (Howard Alum!!!), Dre, Nas, Method Man, Redman, Raekwon(Only Built For Cuban Links), Rakim, Outkast, Snoop (the old stuff), Portishead, Queen (Freddy Mercury's voice? are u kidding?), Michael & Janet Jackson, and of course Bette and Barbara...oh! and Selena( I loooved her when I was a girl in LA.)
The Color Purple, Walk the Line, Chronicles of Narnia, The Matrix, Labrynth, The Neverending Story, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter(don't judge me), Ray, The Women of Brewster Place, First Wive's Club, Secrets of the Sisterhood (Ya Ya and Traveling Pants), All About Eve, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane(anything with Bette Davis),Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Carmen Jones, Mary Poppins, Pygmalion, My Fair Lady (based on Pygmalion), Boomerang, Ever After, Hairspray, Crybaby, To Wong Foo, School of Rock (Jack Black is hilarious and the kids are amazingly talented!), High Fidelity, 200 Cigarettes, Dr. Detroit, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club (looooved Molly Ringwald- does it get more 80's than that?) School Daze, Scarface, The Godfather (all of three of them),It's a Wonderful Life, An Affair to Remember, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Sound of Music, Annie(I looooved that movie when I was a girl), My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Forrest Gump, Purple Rain (not so much for the acting, but arguably one of the best movie soundtracks ever), What's Love Got To Do With It (hello? where the hell is Angela Bassett's Oscar? holla if you hear me)
Will and Grace, Family Guy, Drawn Together, Alias, all ABC Soaps, Golden Girls, The Nanny, Campus Ladies(if you haven't given this show a chance, you don't know what you're missing. hilarious!!!), Ab Fab(how brilliant are they?), Reno 911, Mad TV, America's Next Top Model Season 6 (Nenna, Mollie Sue, Joanie, and Danielle better work!!!! They are gorgeous,and I am rooting for their success whether they win or not!), The L Word, Weeds(brilliant), The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report
David Bach's Smart Women Finish Rich(Ladies, we need to know how to manage our money!!! buy this book...it's a great start.), The Dummie's Guide to Investing, Angels and Demons(Dan Brown), The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Wicked--The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Mirror Mirror (Gregory Maguire-also wrote Wicked), Harry Potter( from Goblet Of Fire to The Half Blood Prince), The Chronicles of Narnia, books 1-7 (C.S.Lewis), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Histories Of Middle Earth ( also by Tolkien, brings alot of clarity to Lord of the Rings), Magyk (Angie Sage)Flyte (also by Angie Sage), Eragon (Christopher Paolini), Eldest( also by Paolini- this Paolini kid is amazing...he wrote Eragon when he was 15 and was a New York Times bestseller by the age of 19!)
My Mother, My Grandmothers, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Tina Turner, Oprah, Obama, and Condi (don't judge me)