I am an African-American (culture) and Baha'i (faith) citizen of the world and I am always looking to have fun and bring joy while helping to resolve the worlds many problems!
I am also the following: Phi Beta Sigma, A.P.A.R.E., God's Own, Citizen of the World, Entrepreneur, Friend, Brother, Son, Uncle, Lover, Speaker, Trainer, Consultant, Baha'i, Tourist, Photographer, Masseuse, Volunteer, Snr. Carinoso, Proud American, Southern Gentleman...and a Dallas Cowboy and DC United FANATIC!
Countries visited: China (Hong Kong), Japan, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Ecuador, Bolivia, England, Netherlands, (West) Germany, France, Spain, Portugal , South Africa...where I am going back to in 2010 for the World Cup! Viva Futbol! Viva el Copa Mundial!
To see an expanded list of places I have traveled and 43 places I still want to go..go to this link:
"I" + "evolution" = "IVOLUTION"
"IVOLUTION" is the systematic and exciting process of making my life more productive each day - more peaceful, more joyful, and more successful!
"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only
if there is light from within."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Interests
Photography, Travel, Futbal/Soccer, Eating & Cooking, People, Music & Dancing, Globalization - (the psychology and sociology of), the United Nations, Chinese history, Latino culture, African Diaspora in the Americas, and espanol/Spanish.
Favorite Music
ALL TIME: Prince, Fugees/Lauren Hill, Alicia Keys, Bob Marley, Celia Cruz, Temptations, Muddy Waters, Carlos Santana, Aretha Franklin, Aaliya, india.arie, Mary J Blije, Anthony Hamilton, Floetry, Whitney Houston, Run DMC, Boys II Men, Yerba Buena, Bill Withers, Christina Aguilera, Eros Ramazzotti
Producer(s): Timberland, Wyclef Jean, Neptunes
NEO-SOUL: Jill Scott, Angie Stone, John Legend, D'Angelo
Classic Soul & Motown: ALL (but especially Otis Redding, Temptations, Marvin Gaye and Isley Brothers)
DIVA/SONGSTRESS: Patty Labelle, Nina Simone, Jennifer Holliday, Sade, Mariah Carey, Yolanda Adams, Anastacia, Cindi Lauper, Bianca Ryan
OLD SCHOOL: Run DMC, Heavy D, Eric B and Rakim, LL Cool J, Tribe Called Quest, Afrika Bambata, Cool Moe D
DANCE/CLUB: KLF, Punjabi MC, CC Peniston, Depeche Mode (Not just a dance/club group!)
HIP HOP & RAP: Outkast, Naz, Common, The Roots, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliot, Kanye West, Eminem, Nappy Roots, Fugees, Luda
BLUES: Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Nina Simone, BB King, Louis Jordan
LATIN/TROPICAL: Celia Cruz, La India, DLG, Fulanito, Shakira, Olga Tanon, Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, Ilegales, Orishas, Mana, Juan Luis Guerra and 440
R&B: Aaliya, Keith Sweat, Toni Tony Toney, TLC, KC & Jojo, Usher, Robin Thicke, Jamiroquai, Justin Timberlake
POP/ROCK: Lincoln Park, Eric Clapton, Queen, Phil Collins, Roxette, Tears For Fears
Current Favorite Artists / Bands: Beyonce, Shakira, India Arie, Dreamgirls Soundtrack, Jay-Z, Nas, Justine Timberlake, anything produced by Timberland, Robin Thicke, Matisyahu, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Shakira, Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Toby Love ...
Just see list above and add these few!
"Tengo un Amor" Toby Love
Favorite Song: All by Prince
All by Bob Marley
All by RUN DMC
- & -
"'Cause I Love You" Lenny Williams
"There's No way I'm Goin'" Jennifer Holliday
"Crazy" Gnarls barkley
"Silent Night" The Temptations version
"When a Man Loves Woman" Percy Sledge
"Crazy Love" Brain McKnight
"Lean Back" Fat Joe
"Hips Don't Lie" Wyclef Jean & Shakira
"Everybody is Free to Wear Sunscreen: Baz Luhrmann
"Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" Otis Redding
"All My Life" KC & JoJo
"I Believe I Can Fly" (Rather Not Say!)
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World" Israel Kamakawiwo Ole'
"What's Goin'On" Marvin Gaye
"Where is the Love?" Black Eyed Peas
"I Belong to You" Anastacia & Eros Ramazzoti (Spanish Version)
"Zion" Laren Hill
"La Negra Tiene Tumbao" Celia Cruz
"Daughters" John Mayer
"People are People" Depeche Mode
"Imagine" John Lenon
"Got My Mojo Working" Muddy Waters
"Boom Boom" John Lee Hooker
"R.E.S.P.E.C.T." Aretha Franklin
"Guantanamera" Every Version (esp. Wyclef Jean w/Celia & Lauren Hill)
"I Wanna Love You Forever" Jessica Simpson
"Drift Away" Dobey Gillis & Uncle Cracker
"Hotel California" The Eagles
"In the Air Tonight" Phil Collins
"Un guou a Oran" by 113, Magic System & Mohamed Lamine
Favorite Album: 1) "Legend" by Bob Marley & "Purple Rain" by Prince
2) "Run-DMC" (1984) & "Raisin' Hell" (1986) by RUN-DMC
3) "Anthology" & "Best of Temptations Christmas" by Temptations
4) "Big Boi and Dre Present...Outkast" by Outkast
5)"Something for Everybody - Music from the House of Iona" Baz Luhrmann
6) "Jason's Lyric" Soundtrack
7) "Monsoon Wedding" Soundtrack
8) "LSD Love, Sensuality and Devotion - The Remix Collection" by Enigma
9) "Bodyguard" Soundtrack Whitney Houston plus others
AND - Every album by Bob Marley, Prince, Run DMC, Lauren Hill and Alicia Keys
Favorite Music Video:
ALL by Missy Elliot
ALL by Wierd Al Yankovich
ALL by Prince
"The Edge" Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5
"Thriller" & "Remember the Time" Michael Jackson
"Reggaeton Latino - Remix" Don Omar ft. N.O.R.E., Fat Joy LDA
"Un guou a Oran" by 113, Magic System & Mohamed Lamine
Favorite Movies
ALL TIME: "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"
"Matrix 1,2 & 3"
"La Vita Bella (Life is Beautiful)"
"Crash"
"Habana Blues"
"Lion King"
"Dreamgirls"
"Hero"
"Pay it Forward"
"V for Vendetta"
"House of Flying Daggers"
"Lord of the Rings" trilogy
"Memento"
"Rush Hour 1 & 2"
"Sixth Sense"
"Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom a.k.a "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" (2003 South Korea)"
"Devdas (2001 India)"
"Romeo + Juliet Baz Luhrman 1996)"
"Pirates of the Caribbean 1"
"The Last Samurai"
The rest of my Favs are listed by genre, in order of how I ranked them.
DRAMA: "Last of the Mohicans" "Bin-jip or '3-Iron' (2004 Korea)" "Good Will Hunting" "Motorcycle Diaries" "Veer-Zaara (2004 India)" "The Village" "Monsoon Wedding" "Spanglish" "Pay it Forward" "The 5 People You Meet in Heaven" "Like Water for Chocolate" "Here on Earth" "Goal" "Pans Labyrinth"
ACTION: "Fifth Element" "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" "Planet of the Apes" "X-Men 1,2,3" "Scorpion King" "The Mummy & Return of the Mummy" "Star Wars movies" "James Bond movies" and the entire Kung-fu genre!
COMEDY: "Waterboy" "Airplane" "I'm Gonna' Get you Sucka" "Liar Liar" "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" "Danny Deckchair" and all with Adam Sandler
MUSICAL: "Dreamgirls" "Moulin Rouge" (Baz Luhrmann version) "Chicago" "Oh Brother Where Art Thou?"
DOCUMENTARY: "What the Bleep Do We Know" "Supersize Me!" "Farenheit 9/11"
ANIMATED: ALL!
and "Remember the Titans" about my high school TC Williams!
FAVORITE DIRECTORS: Stephen Spielberg, Ki-duk Kim (South Korea), Zhang Yimou (China), The Wachowski Brothers, Oliver Stone, Spike Lee, Peter Jackson, Micheal Crichton
FAVORITE SCREENWRITERS: Baz Luhrmann, The Wachowski Brothers, Micheal Crichton, Orson Wells, Oliver Stone, Alfred Hitchcock, John Houston
FAVORITE AUTHORS who books became movies: Micheal Chrichton (The Andromeda Strain, Westworld, The Terminal Man, Coma, Great Train Robbery, Runaway, Jurassic Park, Disclosure, Congo, Twister, The Lost World, Sphere, The 13th Warrior, Timeline)
FAVORITE ACTORS: Jimmy Stewart, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, Jack Nicholson, Djimon Hounsou, Jody Foster, Denzel Washington, Adam Sandler, Will Smith, Audrey Hepburn, Dame Judy Dench, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh
Favorite TV Shows
Fox Soccer Channel, Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Ugly Betty, The Daily Show w/ John Stewart, Everyone Hates Chris, Smallville, 30 Rock, Bernie Mac Show, all soccer/futbol, all political commentary, all cartoons!
Favorite Books
Everything by Maya Angelou, Agatha Christie and Paulo Coelho
"Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography of Nelson Mandela" Nelson Mandela
"Guns, Germs and Steel" Jared Diamond
"How Soccer Explains the World: An {Unlikely} Theory of Globalization" Franklin Foer
"Strange Candy" Harlon Ellison
"Like Water for Chocolate" Laura Esquivel
"The Prince" Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"The Alchemist" and "The Zahir" Paulo Coelho
Favorite Quote
"When I discover who I am, I'll be free." - Ralph Ellison (Author)
"Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects always trusts, always hopes, always preserves." Bible, 1st Corinthians 13, 4-7
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost (Poet, Author0
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius (Philosohper)
"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa (A gift from God!)
"I love this spot, it's like heaven right here on earth, maybe that's what heaven is, maybe we go through life collecting people and places we love and they become our heaven..." said by Sam (Leelee Sobieski) in Here on Earth, written by Michael Seitzman
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington (Leader and Educator)
"You don't pay the price for success. You enjoy the price for success." - Zig Ziglar (Author & Motivational Speaker)
"Don't sweat the small stuff...and its ALL small stuff!" Dr. Richard Carlson (Psychologist & author)
"R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - find out what it means to me!" Aretha Franklin (Queen of Soul, singer/philospher)
"La Negra tiene TUMBAO!" - Celia Cruz (Queen of Salsa, singer/philosopher)
People come into your life for a REASON, a SEASON or a LIFETIME. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person.
REASON When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end.
Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.
SEASON Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh.
They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.
LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A PART OF MY LIFE, WHETHER YOU WERE/ARE A
a REASON, a SEASON or a LIFETIME
Peace, Joy and Success, Anthony,Stealth, Antuco, Tony, Tony Coney Hogan, " El Gringo-Negro"
Anthony, disculpa que te hable en español. Espero que estes muy bien en California, que Nuestro Señor Jesucristo y la santisima Virgen te colmen de bendiciones, tu amiga: Carmen Castillo
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