The Black Lounge

In case you can’t tell, I have a relatively short attention span. These things tend to hold my attention, even if it is for an additional 30-40 seconds.

Music: I mainly listen to R&B and its offshoots/subgenres about 90% of the time, plus whatever random song I happen to stumble upon at any given moment. I also like Baltimore Club Music, some Rap, Rock, Reggaeton, Reggae, & some Go-Go (More than I like Club music more recently). More specifically I like Jay-Z, Lupe Fiasco, Common, Wale, some Juelz Santana, John Legend, 311, Incubus, Gym Class Heroes, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! At The Disco, Incubus, Joss Stone, Aaliyah, D’Angelo, Keyshia Cole, Raheem DeVaughn, OutKast, Prince, Rick James, Faith Evans, Floetry, Mary J. Blige, Destiny’s Child, Alicia Keys, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, Sean Paul, Beenie Man, Van Hunt, Res, Coldplay, Linkin Park, No Doubt, Blondie, Black Eyed Peas, Jaguar Wright, Bilal, Groove Theory, Erykah Badu, my girl Jill Scott, The Roots, Kindred The Family Soul, Lina, Leela James, Goapele, Musiq Soulchild, Alice Smith, Algebra Blessett, Corinne Bailey Rae, J. Holiday, Donny Hathaway, Marvin Gaye, and I just started listening to Coltrane. Definitely good music.

Movies: A Bronx Tale, Desperado, A Time to Kill, American Beauty, The Devil’s Advocate, Lost in Yonkers, The Last Dragon, The Fast and the Furious, Red Eye, Cellular, Harlem Nights, Barbershop, Love and Basketball, Brown Sugar, Love Jones, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Weird Science, The Breakfast Club, Halloween, Collateral, The Inkwell, Crooklyn, Pulp Fiction, Carlito’s Way, The People Under The Stairs, Hostel, Super Size Me, There’s Something About Mary, State Property, Who Am I?, Napoleon Dynamite, Hard to Kill, Four Brothers, Final Destination, Final Destination 2, Final Destination 3, Earthquake, Volcano, Sky High, Grindhouse, ATL, American Pie, American Pie 2, Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, Ocean’s Eleven, Scarface, Bruce Almighty, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Clueless, Mo’ Money, The Amityville Horror, The Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult, Short Circuit, Short Circuit 2, Beverly Hills Cop, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beverly Hills Cop III, Madame X, Foxy Brown, Bones, A Low Down Dirty Shame, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka!, Knockaround Guys, White Chicks, Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2, Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood, The Pacifier, Fear, Cruel Intentions, Dirty Dancing, Dogma, Cry Baby, Crash, Date Movie, Dawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Blast from the Past, The Crush, Donnie Darko, St. Elmo’s Fire, Friday, Next Friday, Friday After Next, Gone in 60 Seconds, Grease, Fight Club, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, I, Robot, Kill Bill, Volume 1, Kill Bill, Volume 2, Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2, Little Nicky, Madagascar, Mr. Deeds, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Monster-in-Law, Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Meet The Parents, Meet The Fockers, Miss Congeniality, Miss Congeniality 2 - Armed and Fabulous, Pretty Woman, Pretty in Pink, Sleeping with the Enemy, El Mariachi, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Die Hard With a Vengeance, Shaun of the Dead, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Enemy of the State, The Day After Tomorrow, Poseidon, Face/Off, Double Jeopardy, U.S. Marshals, Liar Liar, Mean Girls, She’s the Man, Hairspray (The 1 w/ Ricki Lake), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Rage: Carrie 2, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 2, American Psycho, Mindhunters, The Rules of Attraction, Fatal Attraction, The Incredibles, The Goonies, Toy Soldiers, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Lost Boys, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stand by Me, Masterminds, The Devil’s Rejects, The Hitcher, Teen Wolf, Pink Cadillac, The Cable Guy, Once Bitten, Dreamgirls, The Five Heartbeats, Gremlins, Gremlins 2 - The New Batch, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, The Addams Family, Addams Family Values, Practical Magic, The Craft, Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Hot Chick, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Spaceballs, School Daze, Carrie, Christine, Squirm, Transformers, Illegal Tender, The Transporter 2

Television: I’ve been finding myself watching less and less television these days. But when I do watch TV, there’s a 99% chance that it’s one of these shows: New York Undercover, Family Guy, Futurama, Martin, Cash Cab, Jimmy Neutron, Fairly Oddparents, Mad TV, The Boondocks, In Living Color, South Park, Mama’s Family, Good Times, Cheaters, The Wire, The Sopranos, The Game, The Simpsons, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Turn Up the Heat with G. Garvin, Boston Public, Maury, Intervention, Extreme Engineering, Def Poetry Jam, The Price Is Right, Build It Bigger, The Amazing Race, Mythbusters, The Real World, Run’s House, It Takes A Thief, Cold Case, Daria, And I’m starting to warm up to Law & Order…don’t ask me which one because I really can’t remember.

Gadgets: iPods, Alienware, Apple, My T-Mobile Sidekick LX

Websites: Howstuffworks.com, Karmaloop.com, Wikipedia.org, and tbl2.wordpress.com, that one website is really really cool.

People: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., My sister Crystal, My Mother: She raised me along with all of my sister’s kids, and sacrificed a big part of her life for all of us, she still does it today and for that I’m eternally in her debt. My Dad: He wasn’t really around much until I was about 9 or 10, but I don’t think he’ll ever know the effect he had on me from that point on… He taught me a lot of things about people and life that I still use to this day…what can I say, except I owe him my life…

Places: My Room, The Couch In My Living Room, New York City, Philly, D.C., Miami

Chances are, as soon as I hit ‘publish’, I’ll want to change something on this list.