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"20. I write. I perform sometimes. I go to
NYU. Sometimes, when I'm in public, I
start fake arguments with my friends..."
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Schools (Other):
Ile Omode, SPEC, Cole, Montera, Skyline, Berkeley High, Gallatin School
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College/University:
New York University, Attended 2002 - Present, Class of 2006, Bachelor's Degree, Non Profit Literary Arts Education
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Occupation:
Student. Writer. Advanced Toilet Paper Dispenser.
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Affiliations:
tuition remission, organized elements extended crew, building bloc satellite
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Hobbies and Interests:
Writing, Procrastinating, Learning Pro Tools, Dance, Singing anywhere but on stage, Breaking these fools off properlike, Cutting up tee shirts, pretending to know a lot about random subjects, going stupid in the passenger seat, vacuuming, ironing
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Favorite Books:
The Temple of My Familiar, A Wrinkle In Time, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plains, Any book illustrated by the Dillons, Sula, King Leopold's Ghost, The Intuitionist, Breath Eyes Memory, The Alchemist, The Husia, The Book of Mean People, Girl Fish
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Favorite Movies:
Coming to America, The Shawshank Redemption, Fallen, Good Will Hunting, The Friday Trilogy (not including Next Friday), Mary Poppins, The Sandlot, Ghostdog, The Closet, A Bronx Tale, Girlfight, Offsides, Hip Life, Inventos, The Color Purple: makidada., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ma Vie En Rose, Happenstance, Delicatessen, Amelie, High Fidelity, Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob, Pootie Tang, Office Space, Jason's Lyric, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Six Degrees Of Separation, The Iron Giant, Any thing by Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi.
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Favorite Music:
Stevie Wonder. then stevie, then stevie, then The Luniz, Outkast, The Roots, Tracy Chapman, Fiona Apple, Tufflove (no charge at all), GAME Rebellion, Donny hath, My bay area crew; Bomba, The Attik etc, Blaqbnice, OE fam, Company of Prophets, Zion I, Goapele, Lizz Wright, N'Dambi, Amel Larrieux, Kidz Bop 3, Coldplay, Etta James, Sade, Orishas, Pre-Crack Whitney, Pre-2000 Mariah, and just on the strength: En Vogue, Toni Tony Tone, and MC Hammer, The Attik, Ise, Alexis' Lucy's Blues, the Sister Act 2 soundtrack, The Mulatto Album by Nick James, Music to which one may get Hyfee. Joyous Rebellion.
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Favorite TV Shows:
Cosbys, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, The Daily Show, MTB2 (oh lord the political implications), Chappelle's Show, In Living Color, A Different World, The Gazelle Infomercial, any Infomerical by Ronco, Sports Night, ER
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About Me:
20. I write. I perform sometimes. I go to
NYU. Sometimes, when I'm in public, I
start fake arguments with my friends because we think
its funny. I participate in fierce letter writing
activites.
WHATEVER ELI MARIENTHAL SAYS IS A LIE.
I fall down all the time. Most of my friends inspire me to
be better today than I was yesterday. I know the words
to whatever song you have stuck in your head. I don't
believe you've fully moved in, until you've made grits.
When you've run out of grits, its a problem. (thats a
metaphor I'll let you work out on your own)
I think that changing the way we educate is the best
way to impact lasting social and political change.
pass the tabasco sauce , please. ooh or pickapeppa.
or
adobo.
i break cars easily, but unintentionally.
i want to live in Bahia Do Salvador, Brazil, like
yesterday. The Bay Area Worldwide, son.
i have a few conspiracy theories. the most recent of which involves
the death of a former US president and the subsequent postponement of a certain free Stevie Wonder concert. ask me and I'll tell you all about it.
I am all about leaving. I'm particularly good about leaving either the Bay Area or New York for either New York or the Bay, respectively. I have a very firm affinity for Greyhound busses, NJ transit to Rahway, the N Judah on Muni, The A to Howard Beach/JFK, seat 10F on any Jet Blue Aircraft, the passenger seat of Ainye's Dodge Neon, and or the quickest pavement route out.
I am particularly good at staying: in a card game longer than I should, at the sink until I've cleaned every dish in the house, in my books, in no win situations, active in local politics, available to the folks that rely on me, up late at night. I stay eating burritos or falafel, depending on the coast. I stay out all damn night. I stay sober more than the rest of y'all derelicts.
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Who I Want to Meet:
someone beautiful who thinks I'm fine. he should change his socks and underwear daily. he should be able to hang with me on the dance floor. he should play bid whist well. must know at least one stevie wonder song from start to end. he should have lots of books on his shelves that i want to read. if he lived in new york and california, that would be great.
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Testimonials and Comments for Chinaka
miss ya. much Love from Ghana -e-
watching chinaka doing spoken word (even
though i'd heard about her skills well
in advance of meeting her) but i
appreciate the poetry in her movement...
and all the while she's so humble that
she's lucky black people can't blush.
ok, well maybe real light skinneded
folks but that's beside my point. i wish
we could hang more.
beautiful, wonderful, awesome Chinaka.
Have a wonderful semester. Talk to you
soon.
TONY T
me how i kept my armpits so smooth,
with no razor bumps or anything. it was
a compliment the shy dorky blonde girl
never forgot.
as I like to. In order to do that, I'd have to
live next door, and wake her up early every
morning singin really bad falsettos pieces
about iron burns on my khakis. And then I'd
try to talk Taiyo into doing the Temptation
shuffle while all this happened. = / yah... like
I was sayin I live damn near next door, and
work up the block, so I really need to get my
dosage up cuz Chinaka's doper than narcotics.
here. i miss you. thanks for the
hatimonial. this time, mine is less hyphy
and flowing more with reverence and
these emotions of: missing you!!! if
you're in the bay right now, you should
be getting at me right now. we should
be chillin... right now!!! it's 3 am and i
should continue studying, but still, i
mean right now!! if you've been back to
the bay, peaced out, and left me hangin
without a hug AGAIN... man... i still love
you.
and really... hatimonial?! pshhhh!!! it's
impossible to hate me, yo! you can love
me so much you hate me, but you can't
just hate me. let's just be honest... deep
down, after 15 consecutive years of
friendship, even kincey loves me.
oh... i wanna share some joints with you
like i used to back in the day. you're so
benevolent and would act like my
adolecsent rhymes something to
behold. so, they're still adolecsent but i
wanna share anyways. let me know the
proper address to you send emails.
out of the state so much, via is always watching
and always has its collective ears to the ground.
via loves you, come home.