Writing obviously. Music, film, cooking, knitting, travel,hip-hop culture, telling black women's stories, reading, good wine, great food and spending quality time with my family and friends.
Music
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Too vast to list. It ranges from Beethoven to the Beastie Boys, from Buju Banton to Beyonce. I'll listen to anything. It just has to be good.
Movies
Some of my faves: The Big Chill, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, all the Harry Potter movies, Braveheart, The Last Mohicans, Hitch, Snatch, Closer,Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Dreamgirls, Hotel Rwanda, Ray, Dirty Pretty Things, Legend of the Falls,Almost Famous, Something's Gotta Give, Love Actually, Shottas, Dancehall Queen,Wild Styles, Aishah Simmon's documentary "No" and Byron Hurt's "Beyond Beats and Rhymes"
Television
Sex In The City reruns, Law and Order, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, the first season of Desperate Housewives, The White Rapper Show. (I should note that I don't have television).
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Books
Let's do authors: Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Pablo Neruda, Colin Channer, Jeff Chang,Edwidge Danticat, Kwame Dawes, Zora Neal Hurston, Joan Didion.
Current my faves: The Glass House, Marcus Samuelsson's new cookbook on Africa "The Soul of A New Cuisine", anything by Mitzi Miller.
About me: I created my own profile using nUCLEArcENTURy.COM
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My official bio reads
"Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author and a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist and entertainent writer, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice before having her work published by Vibe, Interview, MS, More, Spin, Giant and numerous other publications. Formerly the Executive Editor of Essence and one of the original staff writers at VIBE, Joan Morgan is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost — a fresh, witty, and irreverent book that marks the literary debut of one of the most original, perceptive, and engaging young social commentators in America today. Her work appears in numerous college texts, as well as books on feminism, music and African-American culture. She is currently teaches "The History of Hip-Hop Journalism" at Duke University."
So that's what I do. Here's a bit about who I am. I'm a Jamerican girl, born in hills of Westmoreland Jamaica and raised in the South Bronx whose been lucky enough to carve out a career writing about the things I care about most: among them hip-hop culture and the lives of black women. I have an amazing kid whose wit, courage, kindness and heart inspire and humble me everyday. I'm a New Yorker, a city girl through and through. I love great restaurants, stilettos, a good mojito and fine wine but I live in the country so I can hear myself think. I write from my office overlooking the river with my dog at my feet. All things considered its a pretty good life. ---------------------------------------------------------
As well be sure to log onto www.rapsessions.org. there are some really cool video streams there.
Who I'd like to meet: After this many years as an entertainment journalist I've been lucky enough to meet a lot of the people I've been interested in over the years. Do have a few regrets. Would have loved to met Bob Marley, interviewed James Brown, Luther Vandross, Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy, Audrey Hepburn and Princess Diana. Still holding out for Nelson Mandela, Oprah, Bono, The Rolling Stones, Bill Clinton (who I did get to meet once, but only really briefly) Barack Obama, Toni Morrison and Aretha Franklin.
Whats good sis ? I miss your presence here on "crack space" With all thats going on( and I know you're busy as hell )I know you got sum'n to say LOL! WASALAAM ! *_^
Sending you Afrolicious Birthday wishes. My Bday is on the 29th so checkout my new fashionblog on my homepage for give aways on that day by clicking on view all blog entries. Let's Celebrate big.
I have been working crazy hours these past few weeks, just stopping in to say Happy Belated Birthday to you and Happy Belated Earthday to Sule. I know I know its been too long.
hey joan- just an fyi in case no one has told you-- you're quoted in my debut novel dare. each chapter begins with a quote from a woman in hip hop. your quote was about "chickenhead envy." ;-) enoy the sun, a.
Hi Goddess! I've actually been digging Chickenheads again for the past week - I'm at p. 168. Please tell me you've got another on the way! Hope to see you soon too, and hope to be up near you not too far off, but great if you're coming to the city for something and we could hang before, after or during (I'm in Yonkers one block nor
