music, history, the TRUTH about things (sometimes not all that convenient), social concerns,
...more people who inspire me..... and the person who's gonna make me rich.
There are two types of music: good and bad. I just call it like I see it. My love is R&B (not the s%*# they try to pass off as R&B on radio and TV though), but I basically like all things soulful or funky. And, yes, they are different; music can be funky but not soulful, soulful but not funky, funky AND soulful, or - God forbid - neither funky nor soulful, a tragedy indeed.
Dumb and Dumber, Forest Gump, Count of Monte Cristo, Ray, Napolean Dynamite, war movies, stuff like that.
History Channel, Discovery, MXC, YouTube allows me to bypass MTV, VH1, and BET. The country stations are holdin' it down with the videos though. I don't watch news anymore; I can get that that online.
Catcher in the Rye, Outsiders, The Good Earth, Puddin' Head Wilson, Oedipus the King, Crime and Punishment, MacBeth, Life is a Contact Sport.
Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Earl Palmer (he gave us the backbeat), ?uestlove, high school music teacher Mr. Richard Griffin (he's the man), my mother.