live music shows, genuine poetry, anything that increases my vocabulary, in-line skating (distance & velocity verses) tricking, art: from tagging to grafing to gallery shows. i need to say... Downtimer from my top 8 transcends the genre of grafitti to uplift the form to something trasformative & beckoning to the subconscious. secretly i'm his underground agent & i want everyone to simply consider his work. what he does with the simplest materials is simply amazing.
people who think for themselves
Prince, Tina Turna, Ella, Billie, Miles Davis, Nat King Cole, Screaming Headless Torsos, Earth Wind & Fire, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic , Fugees, DJ Spooky, Bjork, Ozomatli, J5, live jazz, fusions of African ancestral with funk, live Cuban music, Brazilian, capoiera music, original music at open mics
Hancock, Stick it, DEEP COVER, Snatch, Enemy of the State, with Will Smith & Gene Hackman, Hoodlum, Golden Child, Ghost Dog, Men of Honor, I, Robot (Will Smith exec producer), Be Cool, The Incredibles, ROBOTS (IMAX VERSION), Strange Days, Matrix (the first one), The House of Flying Daggers ...
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Marxism & the Existentialists by Raymond Aaron, Neuromancer by William Gibson Isabella Allende, Ben Okri, Lorca, Karen Ladson, Bamuthi, Shane Koyzcan... Gibran, the Rubiyat by Omar Kayyam
my daughter, my niece, my nephew