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Gender Male
Location Renton, WA, United States
Interests Etymology, History, Philosophy.
Favorite Movies The City of Lost Children, Pulp Fiction, Scarface, The Truman Show, The Goodfellas, Fargo, The Hunted, Do the Right Thing, The Things We Lost in The Fire, Poetic Justice, Being John Malkovich, Pi, The Godfather, Road to Perdition, Shawshank Redemption...
Favorite Music Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers, Big Bill Broonzy, Tupac Shakur, Lil Green, Curtis Mayfield, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, OutKast, Parliament/Funkadelic, The Quantic Soul Orchestra, Blackstar, Nina Simone, A Tribe Called Quest, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Scott-heron, The Cinematic Orchestra, Fela Kuti, The Treniers, J-Live, Deep Purple, John Coltrane, Erykah Badu, Peter Tosh, Dead Prez, Ray Charles, The Isley Brothers, Pharoahe Monch, Loaded Lux, Prince, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Gabriel Teodros, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, Lupe Fiasco, Screamin Jay Hawkins, The Beatles, Notorious B.I.G, André 3000, NAS, Fugees, Digable Planets, KRS-One, Steel-Pulse, Saul Williams, Telepopmusik, Gang Starr, Michael Jackson, Ahmad Jamal, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Mobb Deep, Bonobo, Lee Morgan, Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, Camp Lo, 5 Ela, Muddy Waters-Fans, The Temptations, Otis Ray Redding Jr, Qwazaar, Explosions in the Sky, Eddie Kendricks, Big Daddy Kane, The Emotions, Kool & the Gang, Zion I, Etta James, Jill Scott, Khingz, Wu-Tang, Vordul Mega, Grandmaster Flash, Jimmy Hendrix, Will.I.Am, Joao Gilberto, Aretha Franklin, MC Solaar, Kung Foo Grip, Zapp & Roger, Das EFX, Breakestra, The Brothers Johnson, Solillaquists of Sound, Dennis Brown, Howlin Wolf, Thelonious Monk, Pharcyde, Muddy Waters, Bebel Gilberto, BB King, J Dilla, Stevie Wonder, Qwel, Billie Holiday, Typical Cats, Duke Ellington, Talib Kweli, iLL-Literacy, Lil Wayne, La, John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Unkle, Mr Buddy Guy, Bo Diddley The Musician, Musiq Soulchild, Public Enemy (P.E.), Raphael Saadiq, Big L...
Favorite Books The Amen Corner, From the Corner of His Eye, Invisible Man, Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3), Hamlet, Open Veins of Latin America, The Poets Guide to Life, The Ethics of Ambiguity, Interpreter of Maladies, The Perennial Philosophy, Waiting for Godot, The Last Days of Socrates, Stolen Legacy, A People's History of the United States, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Sula, Communion the Female Search for Love, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, They Came Before Columbus, Gangster, Critique of Practical Reason...