Art, music, wine, meeting strangers, clothing design and creation, math, drinking coffee, having fun, reading, getting lost, travelling, public health... Places I've been: Vancouver, BC (Canada), Paris (France), Bologna (Italy), Mombasa and Nairobi (Kenya), Istanbul and Izmir (Turkey), various cities in the US to include (but not limited to): Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Memphis, and Seattle (of course). Places I'm still dying to go: Thailand, India, Senegal, Tanzania, South Africa, Morocco, Spain, Greece, China, and the rest of the world.
Someone who likes to have fun as much I do, someone who can think and be real, whatever that means...
Anything good, The Roots, Amy Winehouse, Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, Missy Elliot, Cuban music, Green Day, Nelly Fertado (some of her stuff), Talib Kweli, Saul Williams, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, No Doubt, Nirvana, Radiohead, Everlast, Jimi Hendrix, Alicia Keys, Outkast, Semisonic, Coldplay, Erykah Badu, Sean Paul, Blackfire, Lenny Kravitz, Third Eye Blind, Gorrillaz, Green Day, Portishead, Aesop Rock, Awadi, this crazy stuff I picked up in Kenya, Antipop Consortium, Awadi, Bill Whithers, Carla Bruni, Cibo Matto, Gnarls Barkley, LL Cool J, M.I.A., Shakira, Bob Marley, Outkast, Antipop Consortium, Bessie Smith, Common, the Coup, Dangerdoom, The Fugees, Jamie Foxx, Kanye West, Jill Scott, Kanye West,Lifesavas, The Pussycat Dolls,The Ramones, The Roots, much more...
Frida, Pi, The Pillow Book, Fight Club, What the .$!% Do We Know?!, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Sin City, The Truman Show, Million Dollar Baby, Quills, Pilates and Yoga DVDs ...
Grey's Anatomy, ER.
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy), I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou), The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison), Catch-22 (Joseph Heller), The Life of Pi (Yann Martel), War Talk (Arundhati Roy), For Your Own Good (Alice Miller), Portrait in Sepia (Isabel Allende) ChiRunning (Danny Dreyer), The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho), Thier Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe), Sula (Toni Morrison)...
Angela Davis, Margaret Cho, Assata Shakur. Anyone who fights fearlessly for the right reasons.