afro hair,
andre 3000,
billie holiday,
bionic bitches, black culture/history,
blackstar,
boxing,
chopin,
christina ricci,
common,
dante smith,
de la soul,
dh lawrence,
dj hi-tek,
donnie darko,
donyale luna,
e. e. cummings,
ella fitzgerald, erykah badu!,
existentialism,
film,
floetry,
franz kafka, free mumia abu-jamal,
gabriel garcia marquez,
ghost world,
gil scott-heron,
graffiti/street art,
green tea, green tea/herbal infusions,
haruki murakami,
i-d,
igby goes down,
jamaica,
james joyce,
jill scott,
john coltrane,
johnny cash,
josephine baker,
kaiser soze,
kelis,
kevin spacey,
langston hughes,
late library books,
lauryn hill,
libraries,
london,
m.i.a,
make trade fair,
mos def, my french horn:,
nabokov's lolita,
nan goldin,
nina simone,
oatmeal porridge,
outkast,
quentin tarantino,
raphael saadiq,
real pulp fiction,
red hot chilie peppers,
ricochet klashnekoff,
roots manuva,
rosario dawson,
sarah jones,
south london,
spike lee,
spoken word,
stream of conciousness,
sylvia plath,
talib kweli,
tennessee williams,
the arcade fire,
the great gatsby,
the last poets, the passion issue,
the roots,
typewriters,
vogue