For
me, watching
a good movie is like having a religious experience. (LOL)
Though
I favor the Si-Fi/Fantasy Genre I will watch anything if
it's good.
~~~
My
Favorite
Directors: Those whose work I really respect - Steven,
of course, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, Clint Eastwood,
Christopher Nolan, Mel Brooks, The
Scott Bros., Wes Craven, Ang Lee.
Favorite
Directors: Those who did specific pieces that I really enjoyed: John Woo, Michael Bay, Stephen Sommers, Sam Raimi,
Mel Gibson, Sofia Coppola, Mira Nair, The Wachowski Bros.,.
Special
Mention: I think "Gone, Baby Gone" was a
respectable first time effort for Ben Affleck. I liked the
scene where the white coke addict mom turns to one of the other
white characters and says, "Nigga, please!" It
was gutsy to include that line and it totally worked for me
within the context of the scene - Kudos to Ben!
His
second effort, "The Town" did not disappoint
either! (If he keeps this up I'll certainly be moving him up
the ranks soon)
~~~
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, The
Grudge, 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.
Seven
Pounds with Will Smith is a very underrated movie - It was
excellently done and in my opinion Will's best acted movie
to date.
That
also reminds me Sev7en with Brad, Spacey and Freeman was
disturbingly brilliant!
~~~
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, Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Terrence Howard, Adam Sandler, Jim
Carrie, Ryan Reynolds.
Favorite
Actors: Criterion - Pure Acting
Skill - Pacino, De Neiro,
Nicholson, Malkovich, Denzel, Brad, The Toms, Crowe, Spacey, Macy (William H.),
James
Spader,
Lawrence Fishburn, Morgan Freeman, Christian Bale, Sir Anthony Hopkins,
Jeremy Irons, Joachin
Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio .
Special
Mention:
Matt Damon, Christopher Walken, John Travolta, Johnny Depp, Robert Downey Jr., Cillian
Murphy and Shia!
~~~
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), Scarlett
Johansson (Possibly the 3rd MBWIH),, Mila Jovovich (I love
this actress so much I could marry her in an alternate
reality), Kim Basinger (Talented &
Smokin'), Rachel MacAdams, Drew Barrymore,
Amy Poehler (one of the funniest women alive), Isla Fisher
(I find funny very sexy and Isla has it), 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), Amy Adams, 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) , Anna Faris (She's like
TBS... Very Funny) Susan Sarandon (A skillful actress - She has an
unusual sex appeal - It seems the older she gets the
more attractive she becomes)
Class
by Herself: Dame
Julie Andrews - She
commands such an on-screen presence she makes you believe
she's real royalty. Sheer awesomeness!
Music
It
Begins -
I
have loved music all my life.
One
of my earliest memories is of being five years old, drunk 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 too) 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 my 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.
~~~
Roots
& Culture -
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 (play) the Avaloe and the Swazi
rhythm on the African Drums.
I
remember commissioning him to build a drum for me which he
created from a 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 rhythms were taking my pain away and bearing
them to unknown regions to be forgotten.
~~~
Introduction
to Hip-Hop -
It
was 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
though, 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 cool stuff.
Anyway, my
rapping career never really developed, 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 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.
~~~
A
Change
of Direction
Rap
for Jesus -
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' and couldn't be used to
please the Lord 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”
~~~
Commissioned
by God -
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!
