Listening to music and people, trying new things, watching basketball, reading, writing, adventures, coffee, fitness, hiking, listening, gettin' festive, and getting to know you...and you...and you. I love listening to people and think pretty much everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt. After that, it's on them...!
New People
Hip Hop, R&B, neo-soul, motown...anything that's not pop and not country and not metal, I can listen to. Grew up around mostly soul- Earth, Wind, and Fire was my first concert. Don't understand 'angry white people music'
Poetic Justice (and any other movie directed by John Singleton), Ray, Mulholland Drive, Run Lola Run, Empire Records, Malcolm X, Good Will Hunting, Garden State, Fear and Loathing, Clerks, My Girl, Any Given Sunday, Cruel Intentions, Coach Carter, Stella, Batman Begins, and I love stand-up.
I don't watch TV, as a rule, but I'll watch most sports (not golf and sorry, not baseball either), especially basketball.
Things Fall Apart, The Notebook, X, The Alchemist, Valley of the Dolls, Princess, Summer Sisters, Song of Solomon, Sula (Toni Morrison in general, really), anything by Chuck Palahniuk or David Sedaris, So Big, The Secret Life of Bees, Warrior of the Light, Soul on Ice, What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day
First and foremost my dear resilient mother, DEBORAH, the warmest heart I will ever know. My big brother, LEON BRANDON--I owe so much to you! Who knows how I woulda turned out without your guidance in everything from boys to beats! :-) DIANE- You are my North Star and I will never care about anyone as much as I care for you. MECIA- You vamp(ire) you! Haha love bein' lazy with you. GREER- I miss you! You are my diary and I'll be yours forever. I better be your maid of honor, bitch! Haha. HAYAT- Grrrrl you have made such a woman out of me. I was so meek and mild till you came along! I owe the pimpette I am today to your guidance haha. I love you. AUBRIE-- Let's go look at it! SO glad I met you. Thanks for trying to keep my pasty ass in check! And of course, ANTONIA, my crazy ass little sister. We're not so different-I just have learned to distinguish between wanting to do something and it being a good idea! OK, most of the time. Aiaiai. Love you all.