Martial arts, beer, late nights, sleeping, reading too much, coffee, roadtrips, power tools, music, movies, exploring, sudoku, and now cryptograms (somebody help me!!!)....
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
I'd like to meet:
people with smart comebacks, yet good hearts; and of course long lost friends of yesteryear_______Jeff Petty, we used to work together at Fenton's. Where are you?Tambien, quiero charlar con otros que hablan con un nivel intermedio de comprension espanol academico y/o indigeno. Necesito practicar muchisimo!
Music:
the Clash of course, bay area punk and some metal, hawaiian reggae, shoot, just about everything except muzak and whiny country (and most new country)...what I'm listening to right now? Juanes, Shakira, Watch Them Die (obsessively and compulsively), sade's old album, save ferris, ojos de brujo, immortal technique, and the pop/rock/reggaeton radio station that's mostly in spanish. when I'm at work and want to watch my clients dance and sing to themselves I play the old r&b-soul radio station. And Brass Liberation Orchestra, a very cool marching band. you must hang out with them some time. These guys have been put in the list of all things that make me unconditionally happy.
Movies:
All time favorites are: Shaolin Soccer, Dark Crystal, Harold and Maude, West Side Story, Star Wars, Matrix, Fight Club, etc. Serenity!!! I might be pre-menstrual, but hot damn, I loved Saving Face. 2LDK, classic--and mandatory viewing for anyone with a roommate.Whale Rider. Children of Man. REDS.My movies I best like seem to fall into 2 categories: one in which the hero/heroine overcomes great obstacles, and you end up feeling good to be human; and of course the one in which life sucks and we're all gonna die, but gosh darn it, if that's so, then let's make a big glorious mess of it all. If it's gonna be dark and cynical, I don't want any mediocrity, there's more then enough of that in my life, I want epic bloodletting, gore, violence, death and destruction. Sideways is not a movie for me~!
Television:
I've been using my TV as a monitor for the VCR and DVD players.
Yet, I have been watching via DVD: Family Guy, Lost, Firefly, Battlestar Gallactica, Westwing. Would love to get(whether they exist or not): In Living Color, MythBusters, Alias, Harlock Anime, Muppet Show, Electric Company
Books:
Anything by China Mieville, A. Dumas, Kiana Davenport's Hawaiian stuff, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ntozake Shange, Emma Bull, Charles de Lint, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni...
guilty pleasures: Kelley Armstrong's vamp series, Laurell K. Hamilton's vamp series, Dashiell Hammett.I'm on a book boycott. I shouldn't be reading, I should be studying! And maybe one day, I'll be able to speak Spanish!I've read a couple of times, Poemas por Victoria Miranda and Camilo Fenini, very cool stuff (in both english and espanol) by 2 Chileans who write of the political and social struggle down there. Mi primera novela en espanol fue Como agua para chocolate, la segunda es la alquimista. creo que mi favorita biblioteca tiene unas de Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Heroes:
People living their lives in such a way that they make me realize that I gotta stop whining about my "problems" and how bad I've got it.Also, watch Rang Rajan, a thai movie that told the story of this Thai village that repelled the Burmese army 8 times in a 5 month period before the village was finally overpowered. Fuck, the tenacity and strength and determination, in the face of overwhelming odds and the inevitability of their deaths.Sometimes it really does seem like we're all screwed; but for me, it really does matter how you deal with the cards you're dealt, even when you got a bum deal. Just because we're all fucked, it doesn't make it ok to act the asshole. Does that make any sort of sense?oooh, anti-heroes, or my kryptonite: whiners
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