Poetry, Latino literature, art, sculpture and photography. Love metal casting and miss it terribly. Beeing an angry GURL, social awareness, travel, the global community, NYC, the beach, furniture design, textiles - vintage prints, hand painted designs, scan design, accesories (lighting, table top).
Tricia Guild, Tobias Wong, Charlie Harper. Oh and people who love peanut butter and sweat chocolate
pretty much anything that inspires me. My Morning Jacket, Blonde Redhead, Belle and Sebastian, Tahiti 80, Radio Head, Sade, Portishead, M. Ward, Phoniex, Sebadoh, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sloan, Sigor Ros, Built to Spill, Weezer, Fugazi, Ben Kweller, Apples in Stereo, Cat Power, The Hard Tomorrows, Fiest, The Darkness, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Thrills, The Who, Pink FLoyd, Led Zepplin, Leslie Gore, The Crystals, Aretha Franklin, Sharon Jones, Chromeo, Janet Jackson, Mos Def, Talib Kwali, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Nas, Lauren Hill, Biggie, Tupac, Justin Timberlake (thats right I said it, put it in and tell me your not dancing), Mostly anything, hip hop, old school soul and R&B, indie rock, brit pop, classic rockect ect ect. Oh and all that hot shit from the 80's
The Ice Storm, American Beauty, Etermal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Big Night, Fight Club, Adaptation, Magnolia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Doctor Zhivago, The Battle of Algeries (mandatory viewing) anything that makes me pee my pants laughing or burns my eyes from crying.
there is nothing good on. Only Sunday nights on HBO, Weeds The Colbert Report and John Stewart- the only trust worhty source of news!
My FAVORITE " Coming of Age in Mississippi" , "Oranges are not the only Fruit" "The Rape of Sita" and The Handmaids Tale" all books that changed my life. Isabelle Allende, "Eva Luna"; Martin Luther King Jr., "Why we can't Wait" (mandatory reading). Mostly anything by Salman Rushdie. Frank Bidart- Amazing poet. Then it all depends on the week, my mood, the time of year. Mostly political or latin lit, with a bit of detective drama in the summers. Although i am currently obsessed with anything about WWII.
Women who empower other women, people going after their dreams, anyone who recognizes our govermnet is reckless and uses their voice to protest it.