Fellow Music Snobs... or anyone with similar interest & taste.
My Life: The Soundtrack
Opening credits: Nas "Fetus"
Waking up: Danielle Licari "Concerto Pour Une Voix"
Average day: Ras Kass "Marinatin"
First date: Andre 3000 "Prototype"
Falling in love: Aaliyah "Its Whatever"
Love scene: Carl Thomas "Hey Now"
Fight scene: Vivian Green "Mad"
Breaking up: Sebastian Rogers & Floetry "Now Youre Gone"
Getting back together: Kelis "I Want Your Love"
Secret love: Raphael Saadiq "Be Here"
Life's okay: Roy Hargrove, Qtip and Erykah Badu "Poetry"
Mental breakdown: Spooks "Bleed"
Driving: Devin The Dude "Lacville '79"
Learning a lesson: Damian Marley "It Was Written"
Deep thought: 24 Carat Black "Poverty's Paradise"
Flashback: Guru "Lifesaver"
Partying: Dr. Dre "Fuck Wit Dre Day"
Happy dance: Marvin Gaye "I Want You"
Regreting: Masta Ace "No Regrets"
Long night alone: Madlib & Medaphor "Please Set Me At Ease"
Death scene: Al Johnson "Peaceful"
Closing credits: EL-P "Sunrise Over Bklyn"
Dr Dre, Bilal, Little Brother, Dilated Peoples, Ras Kass, Zion I, Murs, Common, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Mos Def, The Roots, Jill Scott, Vivian Green, Immortal Technique, K-OS, Kardinal Offishall, Choclair, Blackalicious, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Foriegn Exchange, Blackstarr, Kev Brown, Nas, Kelis, N.E.R.D, Kenn Starr, Hasan Saalam, Planet Asia, The Coup, Mystic, Living Legends, Strong Arm Steady,Pre "Pimp My Ride" Xzibit, Tech N9ne The Liks, Jean Grae, Pacewon, Punchline & Wordsworth, Nottz, Masta Ace, Rakim, Lupe Fiasco, Dudley Perkins, Madlib, Athletic Mic League J Dilla RIP, Outkast, Goodie Mob, T.I., Too $hort, E-40, The Team, CunninLynguists, Bobby Creekwater, J-Zone, Cormega, Pre Gunot Mobb Deep, Canibus, Slum Village, Scarface, Devin The Dude, Z-ro, Slim Thug, The Legendary K.O., 8Ball & MJG, 3 6 Mafia, Dj Quik, Ant Banks, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest
Vikter Duplaix, Sy Smith, Goapele, Corinne Bailey Rae, Omar, Lucy Pearl, Avant, Beyonce, Truth Hurts, Rapheel Saadiq, Mint Condition, Amerie, Amel Larrieux, Carl Thomas, Aaliyah RIP, Floetry, Kindred, Res, Jazzyfatnastees, Les Nubians, Sade, Rhian Benson, R-Kelly nasty ass, Sebastian Rogers, The Spooks, Van Hunt, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, John Coltrane, Ahmad Jamal, Gil Scott-Heron, Bobby Womack, Wille Hutch, David Ruffin, Burt Bacharach, Naoya Matsuoka, Miles Davis, Grant Green, Barry White, Curtis Mayfield, David Axelrod, Dorothy Ashby, Ennio Morricone, Francis Lai, Jean Luc Ponty, Lonnie Liston Smith, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Maze, The Moments, Zulema, Roy Ayers, Bootsy Collins, Serge Gainsbourg, Leo Ferre, Supertramp, Pink Floyd. I didnt put biggie or pac im tired of hearing their music exploited!
Coming To America, Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Match Point, Boomerang, Friday, Casino, The Godfather, Goodfellas, City Of God, The Usual Suspects, North by Northwest, Memento, Taxi Driver, Leon aka The Professional, The Departed, American History X, Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Requiem for a Dream, Batman Begins, Once Upon a Time in America, Gladitor, American Gangster, V for Vendetta, Heat, Michael Clayton, There Will Be Blood, Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Scarface, All Stanley Kubrick and Spike Lee Films.
Sportscenter, Hustle, Spooks aka MI:5, The Wire, The Boondocks, Law & Order, CSI
I like to read anything Non-Fiction. I seem to gravitate to anything about Politics, Philosophy, Religion, Race. Biographies are always interesting, and of course anything music related catches my attention.
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
"Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable." -Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him" -John Viscount Morley (1838 – 1923)
"The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas" -Lois Wyse (1926 - 2007)
"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything." -Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
"The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." -Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
"I intend to live forever. So far, so good." -Stephen Wright (1955- )
"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." -Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city." -Toni Morrison (1931- )
"Those who cast the votes, they decide nothing. Those who count the votes, they decide everything." -Josef Stalin (1879 - 1953)
"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge." -AIMÉ CÉSAIRE (1913-2008)
"A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice." -Bill Cosby (1937- )
"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die." -John Lennon (1940-1980)
"Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity." -Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
"I really don’t think life is about the I could-have beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try." -Nikki Giovanni (1943- )
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -George Santayana (1863-1952)
"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." -Malcolm X (1925-1965)