I probably already met you if you have this address, but if you happen to be new... then i guess somebody who can stay on the same page as me in a conversation, and look really good in a skirt, or at least some tight jeans (lol). In all seriousness, it's the eyes that will move me first, then the looks, then the conversation. But without the conversation and the eyes, the looks mean nothing.
Anything I can sample (peep the beat that's playing). Other than that, any kind of music that has an opinion.
Interview: KRS-One at the BET Hip Hop Awards
Aliens, Enter the Dragon, Underworld, A Bronx Tale, Dark City, Sankofa, Kill Bill, Gangs of New York (that's my history), Dog Soldiers, City of Lost Children, Akira, Ghost in the Shell (only the first one), Ninja Scroll, The Transformers Movie (y'all don't know), The Last Samurai, Ghost Dog, The Thing, anything that you gotta think about and that can help me teach classes...
The Wire, Boondocks, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, othewise f*** that rabid beast. I teach literacy, and it's television that is making our kids dumber and slower. Reading is like push-ups, you only get good at it if you do it every day.
YURUGU by Marimba Ani, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton, How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev, People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Inventing Reality by Michael Parenti, 1984 by George Orwell, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Stolen Legacy by George James, Civilization or Barbarism by Cheikh Anta Diop, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Zen in the Martial Arts (can't remember the author), The Isis Papers by Dr. Francis Cress Welsing (but I only agree with about 75% of it), damn this list could go on and on. Oh yeah, and comic books like a motherf*****
Aunt Ena (RIP), my father (RIP), Curran Hall (RIP), John McGregor (RIP), Mr. Junius Hickman (RIP), Ms. Matthews (RIP), Mr. Gary Davis, my mentors, my friends, Bruce Lee, Malcolm X, Howard Zinn, my students.