.. Reading and writing poetry, playing the piano of course, messing around with music-making programs (ProTools, FruityLoops, Logic, Matrix, and Reason), reading all types of magazines including: Vibe, Scratch, Rolling Stone, Cosmo, Star Magazine, etc. Tattoos, especially sleaves=SOO sexy, coffee, sweets, nice eyes, deep voices, art, nice hands, open-minded and down-to-earth people (I tend to dislike most LI people), etc.I'm a social butterfly so I love being around new people, and most of them enjoy my presence as well!! My motto is "Laughter is the key to sanity. Without it, we'd all be completely miserable!"
I'd like to meet:
Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Mos Def, John Legend. All four are my inspirations to the music world and are truly amazing artists/poets. Alicia Keys is very different in her rather feminine lyrics, but I love to write about feminine issues and she definitely is a goddess to me. She is the modernized soul diva, while Stevie Wonder writes about a lot of humanitarian issues such as love, death, society etc. He represents a more worldy involved musician, but com' on now, I still can't understand how a blind person can play more than one instrument and always be on point!! Now I'm up to Mos Def the smoothest poet alive! He represents to me a perfect rapper whose full of realness and life. John Legend knows exactly how to touch my heart. His lyrics and musicality is like none I've ever heard, and it would be a DREAM to ever work with him. You never know, one day I may get the chance to do a session with him!! I love soul, it will never dissolve!
Music:
What I like to categorize as "randomness of the mind". Alicia Keys, John Legend, R. Kelly, other soulful artists from the 70's-today, Led Zeppelin, Notorious BIG, Tupac, Keyisha Cole, Mariah Carey, India Arie, The Bealtes, Simon & Garfunkel, The Mars Volta, Guns-N-Roses, Method Man, Mos Def, Common, Classical pianists like Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, etc., Nelly Furtado, Timbaland, DJ DANK, DJ Hush, Naughty by Nature, Christina Aguilera, Pink Floyd, Gwen Stefani, and more who I'll remember as I go...pretty much music is the air I breathe!
Movies:
Unfaithful, Mr. Holland's Opus, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Stand By Me, Half Baked, Dazed and Confused, Kill Bill (both volumes), Secret Window, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, Dumb and Dumber, Road Trip, a lot of old school horror movies like Freddy Kruger, Tales from the Crypt, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Jason, Sleepaway Camp, IT, Creep Show ect. More movies I like are Rules of Attraction, Kids, the Doors, Meet the Parents as well as Meet the Faulkers, The Other Sister, The Shining, Love and Basketball, Soul Food, Brown Sugar, Napolean Dynamite, Sin City, Harold and Kumar,The Notebook, Donnie Darko, Requiem for a Dream, Ray,What's Eating Gilbert Great, and more.
Television:
Love all the VHI Behind the Scenes, I think they're the most influential show programs on cable for musicians, Strip Search (makes me hot), Dave Chappell, Def Poetry Jam, The Family Guy, The Surreal Life, Jerry Springer (haha), Maury, Howard Stern, Any Dating shows, The Real World, The Sopranos, Sex and the City, etc.
Books:
Life and Def: Autobiography of Russell Simmons, Maya Angelous novels, Carrie, Alicia Keys: Tears for Water, Memoirs of a Geisha, Poetry collections, and working on adding to my book collection.
Heroes:
All of the strong women out there becoming successful. As well,the amazing Alicia Keys, godly John Lennon, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
