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jimena

diy

About Me

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i'm never bored. way too sensitive and too romantic and too idealistic. creative. perfectionist. persistent. impulsive. exaggerated. resourceful. procrastinator. strict DIYer. very patient. ok, maybe not so patient anymore. terrible with time management, prioritizing and any sort of practical matters. however, i get things done. gullible yet intuitive. i like details. of any kind.

My Interests

- making things (functional or not)
- fixing things
- learning new things
- ART
- traveling
- home
- my fantastic friends
- books
- researching
- making you mix cds
- music, live shows
- bike riding and fixing
- wikipedia
- sewing
- your family photo album
- metalwork
- healing arts
- good design
- languages
- goats and pigs
- scrabble!
- philosophy
- cooking
- metaphysics
- no plans
- gardening
- cinzano in the summer
- striped socks
- staying up late
- waking up after 9
- last minute decisions
- teapots and chairs
- anything requiring power tools
- hands-on house remodeling
- ties
- driving to random places
- camping
- the desert
- the jungle
- impromptu barbequeing
- impromptu anything
- sunday afternoon beers
- doing exactly what i want to do

I'd like to meet:


the ikea girl.
people that do what they love.
neither the delicate flowers nor the faint of heart.

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Music:

latest obsessions:
the fiery furnaces - andrew bird - kumbia queers

pipas - nick drake - belle and sebastian - serge gainsbourg - beirut - broadcast - caribou - animal collective - modest mouse - nina nastasia - beulah - stereolab - magnetic fields - yo la tengo - juana molina - cat power - grizzly bear - fennesz - ugly casanova - saturday looks good to me - mates of state - lullatone - the lucksmiths - the field mice - math and physics club - elliot smith - the flaming lips - the go! team - stereototal - nicola conte - antonio jobim - leonard cohen - laurie anderson - jesca hoop - cocteau twins and most 4AD - the clash - beastie boys - morphine - red house painters - led zeppelin - billie holiday - axel krygier - cat stevens - the breeders - really old rolling stones - esquivel - bach - ...and much more... and of course other people's vinyl rejects...

Movies:

just watched and loved:
the killing of sister george
the diving bell and the butterfly

la jetée - hiroshima mon amour - alphaville - solyaris - les 400 coups - baisers volés - jules et jim - harold and maude - city of god - the pillow book - the cook, the thief, his wife and her lover - ma vie en rose - the big lebowski - stranger than paradise - mystery train - the return - delicatessen - city of lost children - the idiots - breaking the waves and anything lars von trier - happy together - irma vep - titus - antonia's line - lovers of the arctic circle - the ice storm - sunset boulevard - murmur of the heart - who's afraid of virginia woolf - being john malkovich - the cabinet of doctor caligari - lost highway - the list goes on and on...

Television:

i do not own an antenna...
i prefer scrabble, or last.fm:

Books:

reading: "matter and memory" and "atlas of emotion: journeys in art, architecture and film"

- art - design - architecture - philosophy - i’m a bad fiction reader, i’ll read fiction only if you make me to - i collect cookbooks - i like the facts but have a weakness for some poetry, and I do love the dictionary.

My Blog

the great pacific garbage patch

ok, this hits me on april 2008 but really, no more plastic bags, more recycling. i just found out about the "great pacific garbage patch". yes, it even has a name already:Since stories have started su...
Posted by jimena on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:55:00 PST

roadtrip: los angeles to the tip of baja california

two weeks, driving, camping and looking at orionthis is what it looked like from space:the roadriscal de cataviñalittle oasis, cataviñaa site for la virgencitathe road to misión san fernando bahía de ...
Posted by jimena on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 10:26:00 PST

have you ever heard a howling monkey howl?

i filmed this in calakmul, mexico with a little photo camera. this trio of howling monkeys were having a howling episode about 20 feet away from our tent, right around breakfast time. aparently there ...
Posted by jimena on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:26:00 PST

mexico, belize, guatemala

3 weeks travelling through mexico, belize and guatemala...this is just a fraction of the photos! if you'd like to see more, there are two albums in shutterfly:album 1, yucatan, mexico and belize:http:...
Posted by jimena on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:25:00 PST

buenos aires - paint

la bocafiletefútbolpolitics and religionstencilgraffittii noticed later after i viewed this pic on my computer that someone had written on the stairs "jime i love you"...
Posted by jimena on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:06:00 PST

vienna, klagenfurt, venezia

finally, the pics from my trip to vienna (and klagenfurt and venezia) with natascha and kellie!more pics in this shutterfly link:share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=3aaNGjF98vienna subway stationw...
Posted by jimena on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:29:00 PST

30+, wearing all stars and indie band T's?

kids and income aside, i found this magazine article entertaining. we've had many conversations about "what is it with our generation and our refusal to grow up (old?) and settle down?" most of us don...
Posted by jimena on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:39:00 PST

high desert test sites

joshua tree, may 6th 2006the High Desert Test Sites are a series of experimental art sites located along a stretch of desert communities near joshua tree, inserting art directly into a life, a landsca...
Posted by jimena on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:20:00 PST

weekend in mexico

i just spent a weekend in teotihuacan, an hour bus ride from mexico city. amazing.here's a site with info about teotihuacan:http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teocatholic and otherwise cellphone snippets a...
Posted by jimena on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:19:00 PST

october through my cellphone camera

flash!
Posted by jimena on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:52:00 PST