Reading, Writing, Hiking, Coffee and Conversation, Dancing, Music, Cooking and Eating, Travel, Foreign Languages, Learning new things, Witty Banter, Chardonnay
Müzik
OUTKAST fo' life!!!!!! also, old school hip hop (that new sh*t just don't move me),PRINCE, neo-soul,ERYKAH BADU, r&b and rare grooves, SADE, love me some house music, JAMIROQUAI (the funkiest white man god ever made), dancehall / reggae, NINA SIMONE, a little breakbeat / drum n bass, ANTHONY DAVID, jazz - old and contemporary, salsa, JULIE DEXTER, samba, FERTILE GROUND, bossa nova, classical...
Filmler
some of my faves: CARMEN JONES (dorothy dandridge set a standard with that one), the usual suspects, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, like water for chocolate, the learning tree, the color purple, dances with wolves (yes, even though kevin costner's in it), sling blade, natural born killers, what dreams may come
Televizyon
Not a regular tv watcher, but when i do it's usually: food network, hgtv, comedy central; oh, and i think boondocks is one of the funniest (and sometimes disturbing) shows on tv - period!
Kitaplar
ANYthing by Toni Morrison (especially Paradise), Tina McElroy Ansa's The Hand I Fan With (steamy!), Edward B. Lytton's Zanoni, Conversations with God, J. California Cooper's Some People Some Other Place, Rumi's poetry, The Celestine Prophecy, The Bible, and of course...the story of my life (can't WAIT to see how it ends)!
Kahramanları
Your Birthdate: May 22
You tend to be understated and under appreciated.
You have a hidden force to do amazing things, doing them your own way.
People may see you as strange and shy, but they know little.
Your unconventional ways have more power than they (and even you) know.
Your strength: Standing up for what you know is true
Who am I? nobody important. Just somebody with stories to tell and a voice that wants to be heard. I could very well be somebody you know, I could very well be you. Wrote a song about it, like to hear it? here it goes…
Walking Contradiction – An Introduction of Self
I be fat girl
confident enough to wear spandex in public
and
skinny girl
secretly slipping finger down throat
I do graceful dance
to shame Ailey and Dunham
yet
trip on
imaginary sidewalk cracks
I am welfare-recipient
turned
bourgeois broad
I adventure-seek through foreign lands
but
am too afraid
to learn the language
I am quick-witted smart-ass
but
slow
to catch on to the meanings of this world
I am every man’s
dream
but
no man’s
reality
I possess
infinite creativity
yet
am overwhelmed by the possibilities
I am country cousin
brimming with mother wit
and
sophisticated city dweller
bereft of common sense
I am eloquent poet
weaving
intricate word tapestries
and
blubbering idiot
stammering
over simple phrases
I am the life of the party
and
the wallflower waiting to be asked to dance
I seek the divine
and
eschew religion
I sing with
(unheard)
voice angelic
yet
carry notes
in paper bags with holes
I wear badge of shame
and
medal of courage
(just to let you know that I am fully reconciled with my past)
I be both
orphaned slave with no home to return to
and
African brother who traded trinkets with foreigners for
sibling’s flesh
I am stereotypical
bastard child/ unwed mother/ frightened young man
Re-united as family
in
one
iconoclastic
being…
I be
Unquestionably
Indescribably
Characteristically
Me.
DEEP HOUSE HEADS...come out and represent with the rest of the ATL Family.
Kemit, Kai Alce, Just One and more ATL House wizards will be in the place.
RSVP for free admit b4 11p. $10 after 11.
hey! you know vultures don't attack ... they just clean up the bs left by others. so i'm thinking that whatever bs you're going through will be over soon & the vultures are going to do the cleanup thing ;-)
I just read that you liked Paradise! I had such a hard time trying to read that book, never really made it through it. You are the very first Toni Morrison reader/lover that I know that loves that book! Kudos to you...I might have to give it another go...I wonder if I was too attached to the way in which she wrote her other books and the prose of Paradise seemed too divergent. Just a thought! Hope all is well with you Sugar.
