Music.
Politics.
Handsome dudes.
Becoming a guitar hero.
I'd like to meet:
Somebody just like me.
And of course I'm trying to get up with all of my old Okinawa buddies (94-97).
Music:
CURRENTLY LISTENING:
DeWayne Carter: The Carter 3
Raheem DeVaughn: Love Behind the Melody (2008)
Talib Kweli: Eardrum (2007)
Rick Ross: Trilla (2007)
A Tribe Called Quest: Beats, Rhymes and Life (1996)
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue (1959)
IN GENERAL:
Talib Kweli, The Roots, Slum Village, Mos Def, Lupe Fiasco, UGK, Mobb Deep, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Blackalicious, Outkast, Little Brother, Memphis Bleek, E-40, Musiq Soulchild, Raheem Devaughn, Glenn Lewis, TI, P$C, Weezy F. Baby, Rick Ross, Jeezy, USDA, Slim Thugg, Z-Ro, old Donell Jones, new Donell Jones, 112, Jagged Edge, Avant, and pretty much anybody and everybody from the South. Love G-Unit, but hate The Game. That should speak volumes about me as a person.
"They say your attitude determines your latitude. I'm high as a motherfucker, fly as a motherfucker." - Kanye West, Brand New
Yeah, I like music quite a bit.
Some of my favorites:
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Movies:
A Clockwork Orange, An Inconvenient Truth, Idiocracy, What the Bleep Do We Know!? (that quantum physics shit), The Corporation, Super-Size Me, Fahrenheit 911, Roger and Me, Bowling for Columbine, Don't be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Scary Movie 2, Leprechaun 2: Back to the Hood (LMFAO), The Best Man, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Half Baked, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Anchorman, Old School, The Matrix ( the 1st one, all the sequels sucked).
Television:
CNN, The First 48, Intervention, The Boondocks, The Office, Best Week Ever, The Soup, Penn & Teller's Bullshit, This American Life, Real Time with Bill Maher, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Curb Your Enthusiasm, classic Seinfeld episodes, Reno 911, The Real World (Hollywood season), College Hill.
Books:
ANYTHING written by Toni Morrison. The Art of Seduction; The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene. Midnight Children - Salman Rushdie. Love in the Time of Cholera, 100 Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller. 1984 - George Orwell. The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama. The Pursuit of HappYness - Chris Gardner. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou. Race Matters - Cornel West. Our Endangered Values - Jimmy Carter. The Coldest Winter Ever - Sister Souljah. The Psychology of Selling - Brian Tracy. Sales Dogs. Fahrenheit 151 (The Temperature at Which Books Burn). Tortilla Flat, Cannery Row, East of Eden, & The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck. The Time Traveler's Wife. Confessions of a Video Vixen.
Heroes:
My mother, my grandmother, and other strong female figures (Hillary Clinton, Maya Angelou types), ALL single parents (male & female), Michael Moore (it's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it), pioneers like Barack Obama, and of course Aquaman.
And lastly: this guy.
Too much of a good thing?