creating space and re-centering the center for like minds converging upon a nexus of collaborative talents and cooperative spirits...mixed with nostaligic and prophetic conversations in the candelit back corners of piano bars and vodka rooms...
those not afraid to stop and think and question themselves... those unsettled by the idea of spiritual, mental, and/or emotional stagnation... those who LIVE OUT LOUD...
Jimi Hendrix, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Anne Heaton, Nina Simone, Ani DiFranco, Toshi Reagon, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Brian Eno, T-Rex, Maxwell, Melissa Ferrick, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, George Michael, Nat King Cole, Angie Stone, Jill Scott, Frank Sinatra, Mariah Carey, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Corrine Bailey Rae, Charlotte Martin, Johsua Radin, Björk, Eva Cassidy...the list goes on
100% Perfect Girl, Velvet Goldmine, Gia, 2046, The Neverending Story, The Last Unicorn, Labyrinth, What Dreams May Come, The Wiz!, Fried Green Tomatoes, Shawshank Redemption, Power of One, Return to Oz, Lost Horizon, Arsenic & Old Lace, Psycho, Vertigo, & the Birds, When Night is Falling, City of God, Moulin Rouge, Labyrinth, Pride & Prejudice (A&E version), The Worst Witch, High Fidelity
Law & Order: SVU, The Closer, The L Word, the BOONDOCKS! Avatar: The Last Airbender, Family Guy, South Park
La Frontera/Borderlands, Sister Outsider, Stone Butch Blues, The Autobiography of Malcom X, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Why We Can't Wait, The Life Story of Miss Jane Pittman, The Stinky Little Cheeseman, The Prophet, Audre Lorde, Gloria Anzaldua, Roald Dahl, James Baldwin, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne, Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, & Kahlil Gibran.
my brother-who taught me about courage, compassion, and love...Nat Nixon, Ferd & Rosemary Minor, Vivian "Tut" Spencer