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Elizabeth

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About Me

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My Interests

Music, cooking, coffee, mezcal, tequila, la comida mexicana (una maravilla), beer, wine, camping, travel, photography, poker, animals, walking with my dog, being lazy, and ejoying life........................................................ ............................................................ Mi Nino

Music:

Cat Stevens, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Pink Floyd/Roger Waters, Peter Gabriel, Nick Drake, Elvis Costello, Sufjan Stevens, Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, James Brown, Beatles, Flaming Lips, Phish, Johnny Cash, The Who, The Band, Radiohead, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Dante Pimentel, Bela Fleck, Guess Who, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Richard Thompson, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Ottis Redding, Toots & the Maytals, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Taj Mahal, Talking Heads, Stravinsky ("My music is best understood by children and animals." Igor Stravinsky), Shostakovich, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Bartok, Adams, Ravel, Rimsky-Korsakov, Reich, Glass, Berg, Shoenberg, Messiaen, Piston, Ligeti, Glen Gould.........................................Hear some favorites below (especially my newest the dirty projectors)

Movies:

Fear and Loathing (anything with Johnny Depp), Crash, Big Lebowski, Blow, Requim of a Dream, Machinist, Lord of War, Hotel Rwanda, Spun, Clerks, Best in Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 21 grams, Deja Vu, Whale Rider, Lost in Translation, The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, Harold and Maude, Touching the Void, Cool Hand Luke, Garden State, Walk the Line, The Story of the Weeping Camel (absolutely beautiful), Matchpoint, El Laberinto del Fauno, The Matador, Children of Men, Napolean Dynatmite, Flor de mi secreto, Todo Sobre Mi Madre, Volver, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Down by Law, Dead Man, Stranger than Paradise (I've been on a Jarmusch kick lately), Wings of Desire, Far Away So Close

Television:

I don't have much time to watch T.V. lately, and my free cable was abruptly taken away, but I will have to find a way to continue to watch Lost. Twin Peaks, Deadwood Popocateptl, on a clear day

Books:

Galapagos, Breakfast of Champions, Slaugterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut, Life of Pi-Yann Martel, Survivor-Chuck Palahniuk, Tropic of Cancer-Henry Miller, On the Road-Jack Kerouac, Picture of Dorian Grey-Oscar Wilde, The Rum Diary, Hells Angels - Hunter S. Thompson, Lamb: The gospel according to Biff Christ's childhood pal-Christoper Moore

Heroes:

My family and friends

My Blog

Come on! Feel the Illinoise!

This weeks featured artist is Sufjan Stevens. My brother had been telling me for a while that I needed to check out Illinois by Sufjan Stevens. Finally, I got a copy, and I'm not sure there are words ...
Posted by Elizabeth on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 09:33:00 PST

"But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?" Ravel

"But do these people never come up with the idea that I might be artificial by nature?"Answering M. D. Calvocoressi on a question insinuating that many people thought Ravel's music rather "artificial"...
Posted by Elizabeth on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:08:00 PST

Robert Gomez

In continuation of my artist/composer of the week, check out Robert Gomez an up and coming artist out of Denton, TX. I heard of this guy through an e-mail from World's Fair (http://www.worlds-fair.ne...
Posted by Elizabeth on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:33:00 PST

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."- Tom Waits

Since I seem to be spending so much time on the internet, listening to really great music, I've decided to be more constructive and do a weekly blog featuring some of my favorite artists. With these b...
Posted by Elizabeth on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:40:00 PST

Malachi Ritscher- Martyr or Terrorist?

If you have not heard of Malachi Ritscher at least take the time to read his testament, and you decide.A Chicago activist burns him self alive for the cause of peace. During the Viet Nam War, Buddhist...
Posted by Elizabeth on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 01:43:00 PST

being a musician

I have to say I feel like the luckiest person in the world. I make a living doing the one thing that makes me happy, making music. The more experience I have, the more incredible it becomes, because I...
Posted by Elizabeth on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:51:00 PST