Dance, travel, writing, the Tribe, beaches, movies, television, art, art history, Greek culture, culture in general, Salvador DalÃ, music, languages, the Tribe, the 2004 World Champion Boston Red Sox, basketball, football, your mom, blogging every inane thought that comes into my head, mojitos, parties, parties with mojitos, the Heights, love (notice how I put the Heights and love next to each other), sociology, anything that can make me laugh, learning Portuguese, pretending I know any Italian beyond opera/Tiziano, irony (and appreciation thereof), memories, taking pictures for absolutely no reason, buying shoes that I'll never wear, reunions, the familiar, the e x o t i c .The list goes on...
Anyone , really, especially if you can make me laugh. I love to meet new people so hit me up. And if you can be original and spare me the whole "yo ma you mad cute" type messages, even better. Looks fade, character doesn't. And I ain't your ma! Peace!
Everything, really, except for country.
Gotta have love for
La India,
Marc Anthony,
Earth Wind and Fire,
Bob Marley,
Juan Luis Guerra,
U2,
Coldplay,
DLG,
Stevie Wonder,
India.Arie,
Maná,
the Isley Brothers,
Joss Stone,
Musiq,
Nat King Cole,
janet,
Marvin Gaye,
Gypsy Kings,
Biggie,
Ketama,
Al Green,
R. Kelly, Tiziano Ferro,
Nas,
Beethoven (and most other classical, especially Schumann),
Miles Davis (and most other jazz),
anything old school.I love listening to foreign music because it helps me learn different languages, or at least have a very limited understanding.
Pavarotti, Bocelli, and most opera.
All in all, hip-hop, R&B, Latin (Monchy & Alexandra, Ketama, Los Amigos Invisibles [though they don't really have a genre as a certain someone has told me time and again]), and so on. Right now I'm a huge Corinne Bailey Rae fan.
The Godfather (I & II), Face/Off, Goodfellas, Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life, Closer (so fucked up but you can't look away), the Lion King, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Shawshank Redemption, City of God, Finding Nemo, Delirious (not really a movie I guess, but who cares, it's hilarious), Braveheart , The Little Mermaid, Monsters Inc. (yes, I'm 7). That list, too, goes on...
Where do I begin... Chappelle Show, The Boondocks, Scrubs, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Drawn Together, Jeopardy, Law and Order, the Simpsons, Family Guy, Sex and the City, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Aqua Teen, Harvey Birdman, Conan O'Brien the Daily Show, South Park, Saturday Night Live when it didn't suck...which means I watch the stuff from 20 years ago. I was brought up on the good shit -- I Love Lucy, the Twilight Zone, All In the Family, MASH, the Flintsones, Get Smart, Taxi, the 3 Stooges, the Honeymooners, and so forth...
The Decameron, Cien Años de Soledad (in Spanish, bitches!), absolutely anything by Jorge Luis Borges and Aristophanes. They are each hilarious and tragic in their own ways. I also like Shakespeare and any analytical sociology papers/books (ie Barthes and most ethnography) that make me think. I'm also a big Vonnegut and Bradbury fan...if you could put a Dalà painting into words, they'd be it. Plato's "Symposium." And so on. My dream is to one day read Zorba the Greek in Greek...maybe then it won't be so boring. Right now I'm really up on Sedaris, Lorca, Neruda, and all the other things on my bookshelf that I never bothered to read.
My parents. They have sacrificed so much for little ole me
Honorable mentions: the Tribe, Nick Marinaro, ASV99, Diana, and my gemelo, because they never fail to inspire and encourage.