-"De La Soul is Dead"
-"The Toxic Avenger"
-Waking up well rested at 8:30 AM.
-Eating that first meal at the NYU Kimmel Dining Hall after my last Thursday class, signaling the weekend.
-When you start really digging someone of the opposite sex, and they seem to be digging you as well, but it's still really early on and that inadvertant elbow-rub happens.
-A good chocolate-covered custard Donut.
-Steve Carell
-One-of-a-kind concerts where both the artists and the audience is full of energy (and not that frat boy/stuck up groupie energy)
-Getting really obscure pop-culture references in rap records
-Velvet Underground
-Mortal Kombat
-the six-person X-Men Arcade game
-Morningstar Farm Corn Dogs with Spicy Deli Mustard
-Girls interacting with their/others' breasts
-Just talkin' HipHop with others for hours on end
-Pace Won's "I Declare War"
-"Krush Groove"
-Kickin' it with celebrities, particularly C-listers
-Bulk and Skull from "Power Rangers"
-The 2-Mile walk to and from my classes on the NYU campus on beautiful days when it's just me and my iPod.
-Greetings cards from my Grandma
-My super-producer Kid Icarus' website (
http://www.skittlesmaze.blogspot.com )
-Waking up next to someone you really dig, and they have a conscious memory of what you both did the previous night
-Touring with people you really dig
-Christmas, and the holiday season
-Caesar Salads at the Samuel Adams restaurant at the John F. Kennedy Airport's H-Terminal
-the cover art for Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica"
-the tracklisting art for Helter Skelter's "Nocturnal"
-The Asterisk club in Brooklyn
-the Ghostface records that involves him either singing or waxing poetically about the women in his life
-Wesley Willis
-
http://www.cocaineblunts.com -
http://www.knowmore.org - new Pumas
- My rhymebook, a gift from one of my closest homegirls, Beth, that she decorated for me
- "Kids in the Hall"
- EPMD's backup dancers
- Hamsters and Gerbils
- Seeing midnight movies at the St. Anthony Main theater in Minneapolis
- Comic-Con in San Diego
- "Tom Goes to the Mayor" and timanderic.com
- Just about anything Brak-related
- Waylon Mercy, Repo Man, Akeem, Slick, and Mick Foley
- Morris Day in "Purple Rain" and "Graffiti Bridge"
- The Non-Phixion/Arsonists "14 Years of Rap" video
- YTMND
- Totally Kids magazine 1992-1995
- "The Tick" comics, cartoon, video-game, toys, and live-action series
- Fellini flicks
- Blaxploitation flicks
- Lloyd Kaufman
- The Lethalville and pre-2005 Mr. Lif forums
- The Billy Squire "Big Beat" break
- Prince Paul and Sam Sever produced tracks
- RA the Rugged Man guest appearances
- Trey Parker
- the feeling when you're finally done with laundry
- Chinatown Bubble Tea