Regina
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Los Angeles, California |
| Introduction | This blog contains more than just my ruminations and new meditations related to the baddest band in the galaxy, Earth Wind & Fire. It's my own personal back story; the journey towards discovering my divine higher purpose and fulfilling my deepest desires. In that way, I am actually living the message in their music. |
| Favorite movies | Pulp Fiction, Once Upon a Time in America, The Color Purple, The Diving Bell & the Butterfly, The Godfather 1 and 2 (3 sucked!), Best In Show, This Is Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, Fear of a Black Hat, Malcolm X, Four Little Girls, Bamboozled, Glory, LA Confidential, Il Postino, The Constant Gardener, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kung Pow: Enter the Fists, The Karate Kid ("show me sand tha floor!!"), Heat, Tootsie, Antwone Fisher, Scarface, The Usual Suspects, City of God, Jackie Brown, Yesterday, Secrets and Lies, Raiders of the Lost Arc, Good Fellas, The Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, My Left Foot, Citizen Kane, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, Unforgiven, Witness, The Bridges of Madison County (deep down inside I'm a hopeless romantic), Almost Famous, Undercover Brother, ET, Boogie Nights, The Gods Must Be Crazy, A Fish Called Wanda |
| Favorite music | Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, The Commodores, Ohio Players, The Brothers Johnson, Cameo (an extremely underappreciated funk band), Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, Graham Central Station, New Birth, Bootsy’s Rubber Band, Parliament, Funkadelic, Gladys Knight and The Pips, The Spinners, Men At Work, Slave, Mother’s Finest, LTD, Lakeside, The Jacksons, Chuck Brown and the Soul Seachers, Change, Donald Byrd and The Blackbryds, Mandrill, Chic, DJ Rogers, The Emotions, The Dramatics, Blue Magic, The Delfonics, The Whispers, Prince, Mint Condition (arguably the most versatile, underrated, and underappreciated band of our time), SOS Band, Tony Toni Tone, Natalie Cole, Aretha Franklin, Sounds of Blackness, George Duke, George Benson, Grover Washington, Stanley Clarke, David Sanborn, The Crusaders, Pat Metheny, Lonnie Liston Smith, Charlie Haden, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Dianne Reeves, Herbie Hancock, Hiroshima, Cassandra Wilson, Lalah Hathaway, Al Jarreau, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Bobby McFerrin, Rachelle Ferrell, Incognito, Oliver Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Angelique Kidjo, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Youssou N'dour, King Sunny Ade, Salif Keita, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Elis Regina, Seu Jorge, Dorival Caymmi, Azymuth, Bebel Gilberto, Celso Fonseco, Bob Marley, The Mighty Sparrow, Erykah Badu, Sade, India.Arie, Jill Scott, Goapele, Lauryn Hill, D'Angelo, Maxwell, Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, Black Star (I can't live without Mos Def and Talib Kweli), Outkast, Cee-Lo Green (they make me so proud to be an ATLien), Common, Chuck D, The Roots, De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Nas, Eric B. and Rakim, 2pac, Biggie |
| Favorite books | There Eyes Were Watching God, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys, The Isis Papers, The Miseducation of the Negro, all the Easy Rawlins mysteries and the three Fearless Jones, The Celestine Prophecy, In Search of Satisfaction, The Alchemist, Savage Inequalities, Raising Fences, A Lesson Before Dying, Manchild in the Promised Land, Makes Me Wanna Hollar, The Grapes of Wrath, A People's History of the United States, Siddhartha, Things Fall Apart |