Lots. Music, movies, social change/justice (more than just an interest, its a necessity in our world so everyone has the same opportunity to the repsect, dignity, and peace that is due (and overdue) to all people), french, learning new things, becoming better, travelling, having fun with genuine people, good conversation (it usually ends up having to do with injustice, or ends up being useless bs), the Boondocks, reading, playing trumpet, frying my brain watching too much tv
Ella Baker. Anybody who is fun, good, unpretentious, and passionate about something (It doesn't matter what, unless it's killing people or conservative politics). I would also like to find other nerdy people I know who have gotten caught up in this myspace foolishness. I wanna meet anyone drawn to fighting the good fight. I would also like to meet Aaron McGruder
Anything (except country). Specifically: St.Coltrane(all praises), Miles, Dizzy, Bird, Ella, Pops, Ella and Louis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Count Basie, Duke, Jill Scott, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Commadors, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, the Roots, Mos Def, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, Common, Ozomatli, Erikah, Tenacious D, Radiohead, Coldplay, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Madness, the Specials, the Clash, English Beat, Hepcat, the Cure, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Roberta Flack, Dave Matthews Band, the Bees Gees (that's right, I like the Bee Gees), Jackson 5, Ben Fold's 5
Bamboozled, Singin' in the Rain, Daughters of the Dust, movies of Jane Austen novels esp. Mansfield Park, anything Mel Brooks, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hamlet, An American in Paris, Westside Story, Some Like It Hot, Rushmore, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Breakfast at Tiffany's, To Sir With Love, Blackboard Jungle, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Boycott, Fire, Notorious CHO, Eddie Izzard-Dress to Kill, anything my brother's made
Chapelle Show, the Daily Show, Coupling, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy (guilty pleasure), Kumars at No.42, the Cosby Show, In Living Color, the State, Boondocks, Iron Chef America, Scrubs, A Different World, MTV True Life series, Best Week Ever,Salute Your Shorts, Roundhouse, Recess, Filmore, Stella, PROJECT RUNWAY
The Bluest Eye, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harry Potter (yes I know, I'm a big geek), The Secret Garden, Pocessive Investment in Whiteness, Jane Eyre, Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing, The Color Purple, In the Wake of the Wind, Ella Baker and the Black Power Movement, Yo Mama's DisFUNKtional, Hamlet (I know technically this is not a book, but it's good), anything James Baldwin, bell hooks, Kimberle Crenshaw, or George Lipsitz have written
I'm
a Ravenclaw!
My Mom, My Grandmother, Ella Baker, Septima Clarck, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angela Davis, George Lipsitz, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Soujourner Truth