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ecclectic, eccentric. what do i like to dance to: hip-hop, swing (east coast, west coast, balboa, lindy), salsa (bachata, cha-cha, merengue). what do i like to chill to: jazz, ambient rock, instrumental, lounge (including electronic lounge), folk, rock, alternative. i like a lot of indy bands and i support the arizona local scene a lot. this is my shout-out to JD Stooks: you rock my socks. and thank you for the format and ben folds.but i truly listen to everything from reggeaton to arabic pop to broadway musicals to classic rock.of my stranger tastes in music: the faint, coco-rosie, the khol heart, bjork, the red sparrowes, supreme beings of leasure, richard cheese, vast, cafe tacuba, portishead, ani difranco, self, residente calle 13.of my more "main stream" tastes: aventura, don omar, tego calderon, justin timberlake, janis joplin, aretha franklin, billie holiday, india arie, frank sinatra, the white stripes, patty smith (i put her in "main stream" because i know she would hate it), elliot smith, sleater kinney, bob dylan, johnny cash
i like a lot of foreign films, cult classics and anime. some of my absolute favorite movies: blazing saddles, snatch, be cool, the fury, versus, dancer in the dark, city of god, the fog of war, bill & ted's excellent adventure, lain, perfect blue, grave of the fireflies, hellsing, natural born killers, love actually, city of lost children, mad city, broken, falling down, high fidelity, dragon: the bruce lee story, frida, hotel rwanda, crash, terminator, robocop, laberinto de fauna, mala educacion, sid & nancy, stigmata, rent, funny face, legend, apocolypto, berserk, crouching tiger hidden dragon, taboo, ghost world, wassup rockers, gone in 60 seconds, hairspray, face-off, raising arizona, hackers, the man who fell to earth, laberinth, clockwork orange, sin city, ghosts of rwanda, aeon flux, fuera del cielo, y tu mama tambien, the talented mr ripley, et al?
i don't own a tv. but if i could create the perfect channel where all of my favorite tv shows would be broadcast(with all commercials from the 80's)it would contain the following lineup: get smart i love lucy followed by the lucy show dragnet the million dollar man batman & robin (not the cartoon) the wonder years the twilight zone you can't do that on television 3-2-1 contact ghost writer punky brewster heroes law & order svu the office space ghost coast-to-coast mystery science theater 3000 i dream of jeanie bewitched monster vision Alfred Hitchcock Presents
you're truly not ready for this: dandelion wine treason a planet called treason ender's game (the whole series that follows and the shadow series) the fountainhead stranger in a strange land guns germs & steel animal farm los de abajo don juan tenorio how we believe why people believe weird things: pseudoscience, supersition, and other confusions of our time culture jammers the pearl fahrenheit 451 pedro paramo the plague blindness the trial metamorphosis the adventures of tom sawyer & huckleberry finn phillip hall likes me i recon maybe the changeling the illustrated man the invisible man fantastic voyage iRobot nemesis song master the tales of alvin maker sherlock holmes the island of dr moreau 1984 dune summer of my german soldier jacob have i loved the giver the outsiders a separate peace romeo & juliet the scarlett letter the secret garden the time machine the diary of anne frank death of a salesman wild seed how to write science fiction & fantasy the jungle heart of darkness johnny tremain the divine comedy interview with a vampire the vampire lestat queen of the damned fall of the house of usher mary shelly's frankenstein a wrinkle in time hamlet the moonstone othello do androids dream of electric sheep the communist manifesto antigone alice's adventures in wonderland ..i'll be sure to update this as my memory recovers more great reads
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