creating + discovering peace & beauty in art and life, swimming, drawing, dancing, dolphins, eating dessert & culinary creations, travelling...
I'd like to meet:
erykah and andre.
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Music:
ani di. pink floyd. chicks like carla bruni, cat power, björk, mazzy star, nina simone, mirah, portishead/beth gibbons, fiona, patti smith, MIA, and my queen: erykah badu... the men of outkast, manu chao, damien rice, elliott smith, leonard cohen, serge gainsbourg,jeff buckley, handsome boy, common,radiohead, the roots, israel vibration, tryo, nick drake and mr tom waits. not to mention the classic rock stars (joni, janis, jimmy,jonny..) always looking for new music from friends
Movies:
all of italia: fellini, 8 1/2... pasolini, antonioni, la france: jean pierre jeunet, amelie...city of lost children; mathieu kassovitz, la haine, café au lait, et luc besson, leon (the professional), the big blue, la femme nikita, Mexico: Amores perros and Like water for chocolate, Brazil: City of God, Spain: Sex and Lucia, all Almodovar, Argentina: hijo de la novia, Germany: Goodbye Lenin, Wong Kar-Wai, america: bogart&bacall: the big sleep, to have and have not, & other classics, tarantino: death proof, pulp fiction; all robert rodriguez' films; linklater: waking life, dazed and confused... and those movies that i see over and over again: benny&joon, the boondock saints, reality bites, mad love and empire records...and the entire criterion collection
Television:
no tv at home, but i watch grey's anatomy online!
Books:
Jitterbug Perfume and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and everything else by Tom Robbins. 100 years of Solitude and the short stories of Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist, the Fifth Mountain, and many more. Cotton Candy on a Rainy day and other poems by Nikki Giovanni. rumi and elouard's love poems. said the shotgun to the head and other words from Saul Williams. Ionesco's absurd plays. Siddartha, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Nadja and all surrealist writings. i also like reading about architecture and specifically all those crazy guys teddy cruz taught me about.
Heroes:
grandmére, grandpére, momma, margaux, holdie, and other friends and artists/writers/inspirations who are talented/smart/strong and get me through it all and teach me a lot along the way.
