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Ana Helena

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About Me

World traveler, old lady mom, feminací, zealot, harlot, former local starlet. drummer, healer, juju stealer, stand-up poet for christ's sake! I am lucky lucky lucky.

My Interests

math heads, musical geniuses, writers, coffee pullers, anarcho punks, intellectual freaks, the chronically underemployed, cabdrivers (of course), PhD candidates, bike mechanics, girl drummers, pagan eco warriors, homos, sexy singersongwriters, tough Italian girls, fishing, dancing!

I'd like to meet:

my friends and other interlopers... alguien guay en andalucia?

Music:

I love that Amy Winehouse! Bow Wow Wow, The Slits, Built to Spill, The Wipers, The Pixies, Brian Eno, Cyndi Lauper, Grandmaster Flash, Nina Simone, UpBustleandOut, Team Dresch, Goldberg Variations, NewBadThings, all the weirdo-awesome bands from the Northwest, Al Green/Aretha/Etc, ESG, Stevie Wonder, Arctic Monkeys, Blondie, Bright Black, Mystic, Mos Def,La Mala Rodriguez, Jonathan Richman, Prince, Public Enemy, Quasi (see NW bands above), Larry Yes, Pink Mountaintops, my friends' bands, my band: APESHAPE! Halo Benders Live

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Movies:

Touche Ne Pas La Femme Blanc (Don't Touch the White Woman), Rodrigo D (Colombian punk film), Pootytang, Over the Edge, Dead Man, Life of Brian, Dancer in the Dark, Cinema Paraíso, Lost in Translation, Wings of Desire, The Jerk, Alien, Brazil, Bollywood films, Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes.

Books:

Dune, Zines: Doris, La Vida Secreta de los Gabachos, Nosedive, Snipehunt, Scam! Charlotte Bronte, Ursula K. LeGuin, Gödel, Escher and Bach, 100 Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez, Saul Bellow, Solzhenitsyn, Mary Gaitskill, Paolo Coelho. Books I brought with me to Spain: Healing with Whole Foods, Veronica, Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing, The Brothers Karamazov, Madness and Civilization, The Updated Realistic Rock Drum Method.

My Blog

lesbians vs. straights

Ursula is six weeks old, and smiling!  She is rad,  and I love her madly-- I have become unabashedly adoring of her.  I can stand to stare at her for hours, and do so at any given oppor...
Posted by Ana Helena on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:32:00 PST

What's Cooking?

The best part about being pregnant is the carte blanche I'm given to care for myself.  If I am too tired to go to a party or go see a show, I just lie down and go to sleep, and I don't kick mysel...
Posted by Ana Helena on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:53:00 PST

death of the maiden

I think everyone knows, now.  I'm not getting anymore messages asking, "honey, are you with child?"  so word must have gone out, and out and out.  thank god.  making the announcem...
Posted by Ana Helena on Thu, 24 May 2007 11:54:00 PST

The tea tree lake

Well, I did make it to the tea tree lakes.  It only took two days of driving and asking about seven people if we were on the right trail, but we finally found the clearing between the two beaches...
Posted by Ana Helena on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:45:00 PST

MORS CERTA, VITA INCERTA

hola queridos, que tal la leche? dime lo que pasaba con vosotros.  It's summer where I am, down in Australia.  I like to say australasia, cause that way it's harder to mispronounce it. ...
Posted by Ana Helena on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:28:00 PST

compulsive smile

The first time I went to Las Vegas was with Luke in 1993.  We flew in on one way tickets, carrying backpacks and brownies.  We had no hotel reservations.  I don't even know if I had a b...
Posted by Ana Helena on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:24:00 PST

new band alert

sucking is as sucking does.  I went to see my friends play last night.  afterwards I went to another bar to support another friend of mine.  on the stage at the worst club in town were ...
Posted by Ana Helena on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:07:00 PST

Kicking The Stick

THE 10 POINT PLAN:  1)  PICK A DATE.2)  START CUTTING BACK BEFORE THE  QUIT DATE.3)  KICK SOMETHING ELSE YOU LOVE A FEW DAYS OR W...
Posted by Ana Helena on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:00:00 PST

back in p.town

yo bitchnass, it is true, Barceloka is over.  I was living in Marbella for the last six weeks, working in my aunt's office, translating english, answering the phone, etc, "I'm your SECRETARY!" if...
Posted by Ana Helena on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:20:00 PST

shutup already

I had a  dream full of symbols the other night.  I subconsciously want out of  barcelona now.  Not enough naturaleza.  Bueno, here it is:   ...
Posted by Ana Helena on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:00 PST