I was born in a snowstorm in northern West Virginia and transported to central Michigan in the back of a wood-paneled station wagon at the start of the 1980s. I've been pissed ever since.
Also, I don't friend folks these days without a nice message first. Thanks!
The short answer: music - social change - radical politics - personal change - precious moments of joy - understanding sorrow - laughing until it hurts.
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Detroiters. People who know what's up, but still have a sense of wide-eyed hope. Someone to be the Big Spoon. Someone who can connect me to more female performers and musicians and mcs. People who are authentically themselves, that's so cool to be around. Someone who'll walk with me when everyone's biking. Still looking for friends with great music collections. 3
Listen to what you love!
Check out "Skinny" by Lo-Rider. The uncensored version is found at www.skinnyvideo.co.uk.
a tribe called quest, appleseed cast, at the drive-in, the coup, cursive, anathallo, aventura, ben harper, bjork, boy sets fire, cafe tacuba, coheed & cambria, Common, copeland, counting crows, daddy yankee, dead prez, death cab for cutie, don omar, elliot, erkyah badu, fat joe, femi kuti, fugazi, Gossip, j dilla, jack johnson, jeff buckley, Jill Scott, Jeremy Enigk, jt, jurassic 5, krs-1, las krudas, Lupe Fiasco, Ludacris, Maná (shut up, haters), Manu Chao, the mars volta, modest mouse, martin sexton, mad lib, mos def, mf doom, nickel creek, the orishas, olmeca, One Be Lo, Ozomotli, The Postal Service, Peter Gabriel, the pixies, Prince, Radiohead, Proof, Refused, Rebel Diaz, roots, rage against the machine, Rent, sleater kinney, Sparta, sunny day real estate, Stavesacre, Talib Kweli, tupac, Thursday, tori amos, Tribalistas, TV on the Radio, Ugly Casanova, weakerthans, wilco...
donnie darko, love liza, happiness, magnolia, what dreams may come, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER, LOTR, best in show, requiem for a dream, y tu mama tambien, amores perros, the big lebowski, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, garden state, adaptation, pi, titanic, hideous kinky, the motorcycle diaries, heavenly creatures, quills, the life of david gale, crash (not the new one), hairspray, the ring, ringu, the grudge, canibal the musical, tremors, boys don't cry, if these walls could talk, but i'm a cheerleader!
the L word, queer as folk, the family guy, simpsons, extreme makeover (like watching a train wreck, it is), full house, my so called life, Nip/Tuck, Sex and the City, Carnivale, What Not to Wear, and of course, LOST! I might even be a closet LOST-head.
My father