*******and LOVE, LOVE, AFTERALL IS THE SOUL OF GENIUS*******
A man who can make me moan AND mulukhiyya***REGARDING ADDS***: NO MORE MUSIC PAGE ADDS!!!!!!!!!!! Friendship approval is usually always contingent on an already established rapport or pre-existing relationship. If I don't know ya or ya don't try to reach out to me via a message of some sort-I ain't gonna add ya. That simple. Peace homies and habibis. Ma salaama'
Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Tupac, Blackstar, Gil Scott-Heron, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Donny Hathaway, KRS-One, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Nas, Paris, Tiziano Ferro, Ehab Tawfiq, Curtis Mayfield, Shakira, Rakim, Common, John Legend, Van Hunt, Bob Marley, Digable Planets, Maxwell, Juanes, The Last Poets, Les Nubians, Madonna, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Res, Esthero, Andre3000, Outkast, De La Soul, Sam Cooke, James Brown, X-Clan, The Roots, MC Solaar, Jill Scott, Corneille, 112, Nek, Lemar, Glenn Lewis, Tony Toni Tone, Raphael Saadiq, Ankore, Public Enemy, Mr. Lif, Cat Stevens, DAM, Amr Diab, Coltrane, U2, IAM, Sniper, NTM, Dave Matthews, Earth, Wind, & Fire, D'angelo, Meshell N'degeocello, Santana, Amel Larrieux, Groove Theory, Lauryn Hill, Isaac Hayes, The Isley Brothers, Jackson 5, Alicia Keys, Zap Mama, Seal, E-40, Mano Chau, Kam, Goodie Mob, Hussein Al Jassmi, Radiohead, Sade, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Ramazzotti, The Pharcyde, Sting, Sergio Mendes, Skim, Hope, Kumasi, The Elevaters, Samer Alhassen
Godfather (I-reigns supreme, II-an exceptional achievement in filmmaking, and III-for comedic value), PARADISE NOW!!!, Three Kings, West Beyrouth, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Waking Life, Crash, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Malcolm X, The Talented Mr. Ripely, Control Room, Talk To Her, Caro Diario, La Stanza Del Figlio, Rocky I and IV, Almost Famous, Fight Club, Serial Mom, The Sleeping Beauty, Y Tu Mama Tambien, La Famiglia, The Chipmunk Adventure, Hollywood Shuffle, Run Lola Run, Center Stage, The Cutting Edge, The Motorcycle Diaries, Clueless, Office Space, Juice, Bamboozled, Baraka, Nightmare on Elm Street, Babel, V for Vendetta, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter is Dead, City of God, Writers on Borders (if you haven't seen it-you need to!), Born into Brothels, The Departed, The Syrian Bride, THE LAST DRAGON!!! SHO'NUFF! Dirty Pretty Things, 100% Arabica, La Haine, The Namesake
Comedy: The Simpsons, The Dave Chapelle Show, Local news, America's Next Top Model. *Inspiration for writing*: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, that Christian informercial that implores viewers to donate $350 to send Russian Jews to Israel *Others: Jeopardy, VH1 Soul Channel, The Real World, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, 90210, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Lois and Clark, The Smurfs (A brilliant allegory of a Socialist society), Hot of the Grill With Bobby Flay, Discovery Channel, Frontline, Nova, Full House, Saved By the Bell, Family Matters, Family Ties, Perfect Strangers, The Cosby Show, The Conan O'Brien Show, Small Wonder, Tales from the Crypt, Ghostwriter, Girlfriends (it's a good show-okay!), A Different World
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Alchemist, The Wretched of the Earth, The Prophet (Khalil Gibran-and for all you IGNORANT-ASS MOTHAF*CKAS-its' 'Kah' (emphasis on harfet 'ha') not 'Ka' lil-appreciate his name, his origin, as much as you do his work), The Dictionary, 1984, Victims of A Democracy, Les Miserables, Invisible Man, Holler If You Hear Me, Jude the Obscure, The History of the Modern Middle East, Skeptics and True Believers, The Meme Machine, The Vision of Nietzsche, The Monster At the End of this Book, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Candide, Le Petit Prince, A History of God, Jean-Paul Satre's Essays on Existentialism, Matilda, Hip Hop Generation, all the "Al-Kitaab"s!, On Liberty, The Tao Te-Ching, The Souls of Black Folks, Real Philosophy, Cat's Cradle, High Fidelity, The Da Vinci Code, Poems by Nizar Qabbani, Rumi, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Amiri Baraka ("Somebody Blew Up America" and his response to an ADL diatribe of the poem), Assata Shakur, Mahmoud Darwish, Rand McNally Atlas, Ender's Game, Victims of A Democracy, Taste of Power, The Curious Incident of the Dog At the Nighttime, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Why They Don't Hate Us, Reel Bad Arabs, Rediscovering Palestine, Making Malcolm, Sand and Foam, Jesus: The Son of Man, Culture and Imperialism, A Confederacy of Dunces, Veronika Decides to Die, The Zahir, Eleven Minutes, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, Orientalism
El Haj Malik El-Shabazz and Tarek Alhassen