As Long As We're DEPENDENT On Those Fossil Fuels, We're Dependent On The MIDDLE EAST. If We Are Not Victims, We're CERTAINLY Captives.

We FACE NEITHER EAST Nor WEST: We Face FORWARD.

Albania Is Located Sixty Miles Across The Adriatic SEA From Italy. It Borders Montenegro And Kosovo To The North, Macedonia To The East, And GREECE To The SOUTH. If You Know Nothing About 'the Land Of The EAGLES,' Relax. You're Not ALONE.

I FELT Like I RELATED To East COAST Lyricism A LITTLE More. Because I Couldn't Be Super Gangsta.

My Own PARENTS Divorced When I Was SIX. I Was Raised With My Brother Joel By Our MOTHER On The East Coast, Visiting My Father In LOS Angeles During Holidays. When Your Parents Are Divorced, You Don't Know Anything ELSE, Do You?

Luckily, I Have Been Offered The CHANCE To Play A South American, Hispanic And Even A Character From The MIDDLE EAST In Films. There Are Also A Lot Of TV Series In The U.S. That Have A Strong Presence Of Actors From INDIA.

There's A Great Documentary On Tupac Called 'Resurrection' About The Last Few Years Of Tupac's Life And How He Transformed. And, Ironically, How This East Coast Rapper Became This WEST Coast Icon, BACK When All That DEATH Row/Sean Combs Stuff Was GOING On.

I Grew Up On The East Coast And Was Going To Go To An Ivy League SCHOOL, But At The LAST Minute I DECIDED To Be A Hippy. It Was The Protest Movements On The War, Peace Movements Were Going On At Our UNIVERSITY. It Was A Fantastic TIME.

My Father Was A FOREIGN SERVICE Officer, A Diplomat And An Arabist Who Spent Virtually All His Career In The Near East, As It Was Called In The State Department. So I Spent Most Of My Childhood Among The Israelis And The Arabs Of PALESTINE, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia And EGYPT.

I Want To Qualify For The Tour Championship. Being A GEORGIA Tech Grad, Playing At EAST LAKE WOULD FEEL Like Home.