| General | Green food, green energy (MONEY!), walking, sun sets, thoughtful conversation, 1986-94 california cabernet sauvignon (Heitz Bella Vineyard, Wolf Family Vineyards, and Cain Five especially) Barossa Shiraz (Penfold's RWT) spatlese riesling (Dr. Pauly Gymnasium) Bollinger Grand Anee, Vilmart Coeur de Cuvee 1999, Basquiat, Pippin, Haring, Tanner, Caravaggio, Bearden | | Movies | After Hours, Shawshank Redemption, Mean Streets, Fresh, Paid In Full, Best In Show, Husbands & Wives, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Do the Right Thing, She's Gotta Have It, Mo' Better Blues, Clockers, Silent Night, Lonely Night, My Dinner With Andre. | | Television | Meet the Press | | Books | The Plenitude: Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff- Rich Gold and John Maeda, Art & Fear David Bayles and Ted Orland, The Evidence of Things Not Seen-James Baldwin, Malcom X on Afro-American History, A Life Uncorked-Hugh Johnson, Growing Up With the Beatles-Ron Schaumburg, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity-Julia Cameron,Emotional Branding: The New Paradigm for Connecting Brands to People-Marc Gobe, and Sergio Zyman, Keep on Dancin: My Life and the Paradise Garage-Mel Cherin, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Harold Cruse and Stanley Crouch, Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-1979-Tim Lawrence,Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey-Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton, The Psychopathic Racial Personality and Other Essays-Bobby E. Wright, Home-Leroi Jones, The Death of Rhythm and Blues-Nelson George, Parable of the Sower-Octavia E. Butler, Buppies, B-boys, Baps, And Bohos: Notes On Post-soul Black Culture-Nelson George, The Community of Self-Na'Im Akbar
| | Heroes | My mother & Grandmother, Ward Powell, Kay Hartmann, Raymonda Johnson, Delbert Yarnell, Frankie Knuckles. |
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