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Adrian

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

Let's see... I'm a Social Studies teacher in East Harlem, grad student at BK College, artist, emcee, producer, performer (not so much nowadays). Been on the mic for the last 12 years, before it was hip for white dudes to be jumping on that bandwagon (www.myspace.com/mradrian777). Been a visual artist since I could pick up a pencil. Been a producer since I couldn't find anybody to make the beats that I wanted. Been an educator also for the last 12 years. Been a grad student since Fall 2006, working on that Masters so I can step stone it up to my PhD, so I can step stone that into opening my own school. Goals and aspirations, baby, goals and aspirations.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

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.

Music:

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

Movies:

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...

Television:

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.

Books:

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*****

Heroes:

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.

My Blog

Dear Popz

Well, I managed to miss your 65th birthday on March 26th.  You would have finally been retirement age now.  Sadly, and to tell you the truth, I haven’t been able to keep trac...
Posted by Adrian on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:37:00 PST

4 Steps

FOLLOW IN THIS ORDER SELF: build on personal development before anything else RESPONSIBILITIES: take care of school and work, plan ahead IMPACT: write, produce, draw, record... whatever it is you do t...
Posted by Adrian on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 02:36:00 PST

pleasure and pain

Mobilization out of pleasure or fear is the purest impotency.  There is no power in it. Action that is spurned by desire for pleasure is not powerful, it is slavery to whims and lust. Action that...
Posted by Adrian on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:48:00 PST

Only Children

When the ill sadness sinks in, and you're not surrounded by people you love, it occurs to you, if you are an only child, that in some ways you are all alone in the world.  Folks I call "blood" ar...
Posted by Adrian on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:08:00 PST