Part 2: Who is Everest John Alexander

Part 1

Movies

I love movies!

For me, watching a good movie is like having a religious experience.

Though I favor the Si-Fi/Fantasy Genre I will watch anything if it's good.

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Favorite Directors: Those whose work I really respect - Steven, of course, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Clint Eastwood, Mel Brooks, The Scott Bros., The Wachowski Bros., Wes Craven, Ang Lee, Roman Polanski.

Favorite Directors: Those who did specific pieces that I really enjoyed: John Woo, Michael Bay, Stephen Sommers, Sam Raimi, Mel Gibson, Sonia Coppola.

Special Mention: I think "Gone, Baby Gone" was a respectable first time effort for Ben Affleck. I liked the scene where the coke addict mom turns to one of the other characters and says, "Nigga, please!" and they're both white! It was gutsy to include that line and it totally worked for me within the context of the scene - Kudos to Ben!

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Favorite Movies: Criterion - Those movies that I can watch over and over without getting bored. - The Original Star Wars Trilogy (The second trilogy was an insult to the first), The Matrix Trilogy, The Terminator Trilogy, The LOTR, Fifty First Dates, The Star Trek Franchise, The Fifth Element, Equilibrium, The Princess Bride, The Incredibles, Fright Night.

Favorite Movies: Criterion - Those movies that are excellently done; well written, directed and acted but not the kind of movie that I would want to see over and over necessarily - Arlington Road, Shawshank Redemption, The Contender (Jeff Bridges & Joan Allen), The Pianist (Reduced me to tears), The Color purple, Tears of the Sun, Titanic, Meet Joe Black (In my opinion, Brad's best), ...and Justice For All (Pacino).

Special Mention: I'm not a big fan of horror like I used to be in my youth but these deserve mention - John Carpenter's "The Thing", The Howling (Original), The Ring, House (With George Wendt from Cheers), Salem's Lot, Superstition - The scariest movie I ever saw in my life was "Horror Express" starring TV's Telly Savalas of "Kojack" fame. I was about eight years old.

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Favorite Actors: Criterion - Watchability... Those that I like to see on screen and it really doesn't matter what they're acting in -  Will, Denzel, Brad, Christian Bale, Don Cheadle, Bruce Willis, Terrence Howard, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrie.

Favorite Actors: Criterion - Pure Acting Skill - Pacino, De Neiro, Nicholson, Malkovich, Denzel, Brad, The Toms (Cruize & Hanks), Crowe, Spacey, Macy (William H.), Christian Bale, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Joachin Phoenix, Edward Norton, Leonardo DeCaprio (I've had Leo on my watch list of "up and commers" for several years now, I think it's time he entered the majors).

Special Mention: James Spader, John Travolta, Lawrence Fishburn, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Cillian Murphy and as young as he is we need to look out for Shia, the boy has what it takes to be huge!

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Favorite Actresses: Criterion - Watchability... Those that I like to see on screen and it really doesn't matter what they're acting in -  Halle Berry (The most beautiful woman in Hollywood), Charlize Theron (The 2nd most beautiful woman in Hollywood), Sanaa Lathan (Possibly the 3rd MBWIH), Mila Jovovich, Rachel MacAdams, Drew Barrymore, Linsay Lohan (My wife and I have watched The Parent Trap a thousand times and I personally could watch Freaky Friday and Mean Girls over and over again).

Favorite Actresses: Criterion - Pure Acting Skill - Meryl Streep, Joan Allen, Glenn Close, Kimberly Elise, Diane Lane (She deserved an Oscar for "Unfaithful" more than Halle did for "Monster's Ball"), Hillary Swank (Personally, I think one of the top 3 actresses on the planet), Dame Judy Dench, Alfre Woodard, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron (Her performance in "Monster" sold me), Angela Bassett.

Special Mention: Erika Christiansen (She creeped me out in "Swimfan" - totally believable as a psycho stalker and excellent performance in "Traffic"), Megan Fox (Just for the sheer "Hotness" factor - If she takes her craft seriously she could be another Charlize Theron) , Kim Basinger (Talented & Smokin'), Susan Sarandon (A skillful actress - She has an unusual sex appeal - It seems the older she gets the more attractive she becomes)

Music

I have loved music all my life.

One of my earliest memories is of being five years old and dancing naked in front of some friends and family members during the Christmas of '68. (You didn't think I was born saved, right?)

I love music and I love dancing. I really wished I could sing (and dance better too, if you want to know the truth) but I am what I am so I make do with what I got.

I make a joyful noise unto the Lord and I can shake a leg with the best of them.

I learnt the DJ business from my beloved cousin, Wayne John alias, DJ Yummy The Wax Master (He died back in '87). It was a tragic loss, especially to me. He was a mentor, taught me to ride a bicycle, play basketball and table tennis and encouraged me to return to high school where I met my wife, which totally changed my life.

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I learnt to play the African Drums from another good brother - It's funny I just realized after all these years the coincidence of his name also being Wayne - It's Wayne Osuna alias, Lion!

Lion taught me how to beat the Avaloe and the Swazi rhythm on the African Drums.

I remember commissioning him to build a drum for me which he created from an actual hollowed out tree trunk, beautifully carved and masterfully crafted into a precious work of Art. Sometimes I would play that drum like my life depended on it, like if the rhthyms were taking my pain away and bearing them to unknown regions to be forgotten.

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It was in 1979 when I first heard Rap music. I was listening to the radio and on came this Rap Group called "The Sugarhill Gang" with a song that grabbed me by the eardrums and wouldn't let me go until it was good and ready.

That song was, of course, "Rapper's Delight" and from that moment... I was hooked!

I started rapping immediately and because I was accustomed to writing poetry, rhyming came easily for me.

Try as I might I could never learn how to "free style" where you just rap off the top of your head and make it sound good... Not for me. But when I put pen to paper I could whip up some really good stuff, at least that's what I think.

Anyway, my rapping career never really went anywhere, I used to make Mixed Tapes and sell to friends and family with me rapping on some of the instrumental tracks and that's as much success as I had as a Rap Star.

It's really frustrating to come up with really good ideas and see someone else make it a reality before you because of a lack of opportunity and resources.

I considered rapping normal speed to a really slow song just to see how the contrast would be. I thought it would sound really good and it did, when LL Cool J did it about six months to a year after I thought about it.

I thought about rapping Hip-Hop style to totally different styles of music, something really way out, you know, like "Rock Music" with the loud guitars and stuff?

Lo and behold, up comes Run D MC  with Aerosmith and "Walk This Way" about 5 years after I thought about it... Seriously!

Anyway, I'm not crying over spilled milk, just sharing, everything happens for a reason.

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A Change of Direction

My rap career changed direction after I got saved in '88.

I said to the Lord, "Here, take this, it's Yours" offering Him my notebook with all my raps and songs in it, and with that I placed it high up on a shelf and never looked back... until exactly one year later.

The reason I never looked back is because I didn't know there was anything called "Gospel Rap" at that time and I assumed rap music was 'worldly' but exactly 12 months later something happened.

I was  working at The Trinidad Hilton as a Security Officer and one evening I suddenly got the inspiration to write a Rap - And I did!

It was my first Gospel Rap called "Satan Is A Liar!" and I was really nervous about doing this, remember, I had no idea that anyone else in the world was doing this - I thought I was alone and wasn't really sure if this "was of God or not."

So, for the next couple of weeks I was really stressing about having written this Rap and wasn't sure if this was pleasing to God.

Then it happened!

One afternoon out of the blue I began getting inspiration to write another Rap, but this experience was different.

Whereas the first time I was in control of the composing of the Rap this time I wasn’t!

The Holy Spirit was feeding me the words faster than I could write. I had to scribble at a fantastic pace just to keep up with the flow of the words out of my spirit.

I wrote the entire thing in 20 minutes flat!

Normally, I would take anywhere from a couple weeks to a couple months to write a Rap – This Rap was written in 20 minutes non-stop from start to finish without taking any time to think about what I was writing.

This Rap was actually composed by God, the Holy Spirit and delivered to me Prophetically, I just did the writing of the words on paper – I now know how Jeremiah and Ezekiel felt when God told them to write and began giving them revelation knowledge to record.

The name of this Rap is “The Gospill: Jesus Christ the Righteous”

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When it was all done He specifically told me that He did this to confirm that the first Rap I wrote was directed by Him and He wanted me to minister in Rap to honor and glorify His name.

So, by composing this one Himself he took away all the fear of this not being His will.

Awesome! That’s the God I serve!

Since that time to now I have only ministered in churches but I think the time is drawing close for me to launch out and become more public with my messages.

And thanks to TuneFlow I now have a platform from which to launch!

I am looking for someone to create original tracks for me to spit on - I have very specific ideas concerning the type of music I need for my rhymes.

It's going to be a totally different style - blazing out of the box!

My name is Kaddeesh - Listen for me!

P.S. I've posted some of my Raps accapella style on my Voice Blog on the Kingdom Learning Network.

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