I'd like to meet:
Other Hip Po' Livin' the Cr8tiv Lyfe.
Music:
"Dadie anoma" Kojo Entwi; "Odo ye wu dami baebi o" Swazi-B; "I wanna be free free free from yeye politics." (Meet me at the SHRINE); "Children of the Future" Daddy Lumba; Bob, Ziggy and Marlene Marley; Mano Debango; Beanie Man; Billy Holiday; Louis Armstrong - "My Sweet Hunk a-Trash"; "Is You Is or Is You Ain't" - Louis Jordan; "WAKE UP! WHY DON'T YOU PUT ON A LITTLE MAKE-UP!"- Chop Suey- System of the Down; The Killers; Dashboard Confessional; "She don't use butter. She don't use Jam. SheShe uses VAAAAAAA-sAleeeeen" - Flaming Lips; "My Own Worse Enemy" - Lit; "Creep" - Radiohead; "Low" - Cracker; "Death of a Disco Dancer" - The Smiths; "Last Night I Dreampt (somebody loved me)" - The Smiths Strange Ways Here We Come (the best of their albums); Bowie- LOVE LOVE LOVE Bowie and his suits; "Round here we talk just like lions while we sacrifice like lambs." Quote from Counting Crows; "She stirs her drink with her finger, Man I wish I was - what she was drinking."-John Cougar Melloncamp; M'chelle Ndegliochello; India Arie- When will she get her true props?; Tracy Chapman; Mary J. Blige; BIll WITHERS; Al Green; Donny Hathaway; Jackie Wilson; Ray Charles - God Rest His Soul; Jose Feliciano; Anthony Hamilton; Lyfe; Joss Stone; James Blunt; Coldplay;Dolly Parton; Kenny Rogers; Dixie Chicks; Shedaisy; Johnny Cash; Sinead O'Connor; Simply Red; AND SO MANY MANY MORE!
Movies:
Orlando, Passion of Christ, Crash, Saddam, Raise the Red Latern, Anatomy of the Heart, The Lover, Karma Sutra, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Golden Monkey, The Color Purple, Amistad, Hotel Rwanda, Sankofa
Television:
PBS- The Hip Po's cable. Support your local Public Broadcasting Station! Grey's Anatomy, LOST, The Unit, Law and Order (all of them), My Name is Earl (it is just plain funny), The Office, Will & Grace (Let's face it. There is a little Karen and Jack in all of us or we wish we were that OUT in our all of our lyfe.), Globetrekker - I want that job,
Books:
Holy Bible, Things Fall Apart, Houseboy, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Red Tent, In The Time of Love and Cholera, Why the Caged Bird Sings, Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Ten Thousand Lovers, Mango, Papaya and Coconut, Wicked, Hundred Years of Solitude, Girl with the Pearl Earing, Tweleve Ordinary Men, Tweleve Extraordinary Women, There are so many many more! Sidhartha Holidays on Ice
Heroes:
Reva Kate Holland Barbara Ann Holland Corra Buelah Benjamin Gravely HBV & AM Two Mighty & Fierce Woman The legendary Jack Johnson - Now he did it his way! Louis Armstrong Miss Billy Holiday - for not being afraid to let the sadness out. and ME