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Negro Libre™

About Me

I edited my profile with my muchachas and shakarakas

My Interests

Music:

Mandatory in rotation on the Ipod in a given 24 hour period : Fela Kuti, Outkast Clinic Brian Jonestown Massacre, Prince Joy Division Tribe Called Quest Kelis, The Smiths, Fiona Apple Bad Brains Radiohead, Beck, Rage Against the Machine, Albert King, Ben Harper Blackalicious, Stiffed Bo Diddley, Chaka Khan, Cibo Matto, The Talking Heads The Clash STEVIE WONDER Slack Republic Kola Rock Nirvana Common, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Sly and the Family Stone, J*Davey Sa Ra Litte Brother Charles Mingus James Brown, Muddy Waters Metric, Le Tigre Mos Def . . .

Movies:

Rushmore , Trainspotting, , Kill Bill, , Royal Tennenbaums, Freeway, Lock Stock Two Smoking Barrels, , Memento, Do The Right Thing, Amores Perros, Rebel Without A Pause , Brown Sugar, Garden State, Ray, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine (or most any Jim Carey movies), SLC Punk, Requiem for a Dream, Waking Life, Color Purple, Igby Goes Down, 28 Days later, Snatch, Y tu Mama Tambien, Goonies, .,... many more I just seem to forget at the moment.

Television:

Adult Swim, Daily Show, Dave Chappelle, CSI, Alias, Law & Order and what used to be Tech TV.Also from the 80s/90s: Curious George Ren & Stimpy And Pinwheel or You can't do that on TV for all you old skool Nickelodeon addicts. Aeon Flux Duck Man Liquid Television

Books:

Of Human Bondage, Da Vinci Code, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Educating Rita, Fantomas, Perv: A Love Story, Crash, 1984, Brave New World, Mis-Education of the Negro,America (the book), Autobiography of Malcom X, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Song of Solomon, The Importance of Being Earnest, Africana, Nigger: The Autobiography of Dick Gregory, The River: The Source of HIV AIDS, Paradise Lost, Black Skin White Mask & Dying Colonialism, Dante's Inferno, Plainclothes Naked, Feminist Art Theory Anthology, Look Back In Anger, All Our Kin, Rosa too Little, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, all sorts of comic books like the Invisibles or even X-Men, Spiderman, etc. and Dante's Inferno. Oh yeah and anything Dr. Seuss.

Heroes:

Heroes are for hoes that need Captains to save em'

My Blog

yet another reason why i love the movie bamboozled

fact is stranger than fiction...I knew Regis was a sneaky saltine... ...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:04:00 PST

this woman always has the words for the moment...

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Posted by Negro Libre™ on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:49:00 PST

What is the point really...

In valentine's day? I don't mean to be much of a v-day grinch, but i think in some ways I've earned a right to my skeptical, pessimistic views. I won't say so much as the oh so common "fuck valentine'...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:41:00 PST

The day I stopped believing in Santa Clause

I've never been much of one for Santa Claus. Just never had much faith in the idea. Not in a grinch way, I just knew what the fuck was up as a kid. I actually believed in the tooth fairy longer than S...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:19:00 PST

Abbreviate the 10 commandments

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Posted by Negro Libre™ on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:02:00 PST

Dictatorial Democracy: Remember, Remember the 7th of November

It seems the new American model of democracy doesn't function under democratic principles at all - but under the premise that people only *think* their votes count. And you thought Castro was the dict...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:43:00 PST

And ya'll wonder why Negro Libre doesn't swim

Mark my words. Stingrays have waged war on humans - they clearly ain't to happy with people these days.Fla. boater stabbed in chest by stingrayhttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_re_us/stin gray_...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 07:43:00 PST

Reason enough to impeach the bastard

You know aside from the whole destroying the whole constitution, violating voter's rights, destabilizing the world, and being a general idiot. Four U.S. soldiers charged with rape and murder of 14 y...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 10:06:00 PST

Throw on a Cardigan baby its cold outside...

For the past decade despite various "holla back" girls and some unmentioned bands letting me down, I've kinda forgotten band that haven't let me down. Damn swedes1. Ikea 2. Good Healthcare3. Good Ban...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:23:00 PST

Homophobes are soooooo gay

There is nothing profound about this statement. Just a slightly oxymoronic reference to the ironic gayness of one who obsesses with another's sexual orientation. And not using the term "gay" in a nega...
Posted by Negro Libre™ on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:46:00 PST