art/ anthropology/ religious history/natural medicine & herbs/ world health issues/ the environment/ historical costume /cooking/ martial arts/illustration/ anime/ sci fi/ Japanese stuff/ world music/hip hop/ reggae/ jazz/ dance/far away places/wacky people
artists, designers, actors, models, photographers, creative entrepreneurs, venture capitalists ( muhhahaha)
MF Doom ( Orris root Powder!!) Nina Simone, Count Bass D, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes, Baba maal, Blackalicious, Jazzyfatnastees, John coltrane, Miles Davis, Etta James, Stevie Wonder, Mbemba Bangoura, Rokia Traore, chaka khan, Mad Lib, Phoebe Snow, mongo santamaria, Fela Kuti, j-zone, j- live , Eddie Palmieri, Irakere, Ndambi, hieroglyphics,pharoahe monch,mos def, billie holiday, 8ball MJG, UGK....dirty south underground, Coleman Hawkins, Babatunde Olatunji, Mamady Keita, Nina Simone, Thievery Corporation, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Dr. Buzzard and his Original Savannah band, Billie Holiday, Cool Breeze, NWA, Too Short, Osunlade, Omar, Julie Dexter, Manu Dubongo, King Sunny Ade, Yousou N'Dour, Ayub Ogada.... this list is endless......
action, sci fi, horror, thrillers, Anime, indie flicks, anything with more cowbell!!)
KILL YOUR TV !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Favorite reads: Kindred/Octavia Butler, Sula/Toni Morrison, Beloved/Toni Morrison, Bailey's Cafe/Gloria Naylor, We Were the Mulvaneys/Joyce Carol Oates, Memoirs of a Geisha- Arthur Golden, The Parable of the Talents- Octavia Butler, A Wrinkle In TIme- madeleine L'Engle, Roll of Thunder,Hear My Cry, Ludell & Willie , The Shell Seekers,
my ancestors, my parents & grandparents, my brothers