activism, social movements, traveling, roadside attractions, walking, friends, learning to dance, random adventures, loteria, writing, music, painting, the post office, being outside, my hammock, libraries, carnivals, direct action, my bike, dreaming, the lake, murals, dia de los muertos, authenticity, my cat, mi casa...
people I already know in person... activists, movements, freedom fighters, artists. But I definitely will delete band and DJ requests and random ass people who don't send a message before requesting friendship.
victor jara, carlos puebla, leonard cohen, violeta parra, nick cave, nina simone, fela kuti, pj harvey, paul westerburg, chavela vargas, lila downs, grant lee buffalo, ali primera, ana y jaime, musica protesta, african music from freedom songs to highlife, salsa, calypso, bossa nova, cumbias, ranchera and mariachi, reggae and rocksteady, early country and folk, indie, melodic pop and rock, conscious hip hop, blues, jazz, punk, glam, bad 80's metal, bad 80's pop, early rock n roll and pop vocal, doo wop, garage, soul, latin, french, gypsy, etc.
Lourdes Portillo, Almodovar, Atom Egoyan, Orson Welles, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen, Noir, documentaries, independent media, Post-Colonial, Horror, New Wave, Musicals, Silents, NeoRealism, Like Water for Chocolate, Asphalt Jungle, Battle of Algiers, In a Loney Place, Night and the City, Salt of the Earth, Nights of Caberia, Yo Soy Cuba, Bicycle Thief, Metropolis, Real Women Have Curves, etc...
PBS, Chavo
right now its lots of Che, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Cherrie Moraga, Jose Marti, Fanon, Sterling Hayden's Wanderer, Subcomandante Marcos, Paulo Freire, Giocanda Belli, Roque Dalton, Koigi Wa Wamere, Sherman Alexi, Edward Said, Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Flores Magon, Lucio Cabanas, anything on Hugo Chavez and revolutionary movements in South America, traditional oral storytelling, hip hop lit, powerful women of color writings (Audre Lord, Gloria Anzaldua, bell hooks, June Jordan, Assata Shakur, Margaret Cho, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rosa Linda Fregosa, Incite Women of Color, Aya de Leon, Lisa Lowe...).
people who are sane, drama free, down for la causa, and not too individualistic.