Esperanza. Scooters. Weekend Rides. TV nights at Casa Morales hanging with the girls and my nieces Mimis and Chispita.Soul music; rare, northern, ballads, mids, stompers, 60's, 70's and even a little funk for good measure.
anyone who'll laugh at my jokes and fear me."you can put a tutu on a piece of shit and people will still show up to see it dance"....those are the people i DO NOT want to meet.
Northern Soul, Rare Soul, 60's R&B, British Beat, Britpop, Brit Indie, some Indie in general (who knew?), Reggae, Rocksteady. Belle and Sebastian, the Doves, Coldplay, Blur, Travis, Pulp, Gene, Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol, The Verve, Keane, Richard Ashcroft, Interpol, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Kent, Air, Ladytron, Stone Roses, Lightning Seeds, The Trash Can Sinatras, Nick Drake, Smiths. The English Beat, The Jam, The Style Council, The Yardbirds, The Zombies, Small Faces, The Precisions, The Spellbinders, The Tangeers, Epitome of Sound, The Flirtations, The Natural Four, Al Wilson, Bobby Hebb, Otis Redding, Tami Terrell, Curtis Mayfield, Dee Dee Sharp, Darrell Banks, Little Milton. Delroy Wilson, The Paragons, The Melodians, Phyllis Dillon, Toots and the Maytals.
Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers, Love With the Proper Stranger, Funny Face, Rosemary's Baby. Pretty in pink, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, Some Kind of Wonderful, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael, Trainspotting, Grosse Point Blank, The Royal Tenenbaums (but who would be Royal and who would be Pagoda?), Bend it Like Beckham...Down With Love (note: i really didn't want to like this movie and to my chagrin, i did)
Law & Order, X-Files, Project Runway, Top Chef, Shear Genius
Loose Woman, My Wicked, Wicked Ways and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros. Chicana Falsa and How to Be a Chicana Role Model by Michele Seros. Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich. I'll also read anything i can get my hands on about 60's fashion & soul music.