SHORT VERSION: Hanging out with each other and making each other smile and laugh every chance we get...LONG VERSION: at the moment we're still recovering from our blissful anniversary trip to France (Paris, Versailles, etc.), I'm also interested in Indian culture and cuisine (I work closely with India so hopefully I will travel there soon). Adam enjoy jujitsu, soccer (nice calves!), film and screenwriting, writing poetry and prose, drumming, working out, playing Xbox 360 with my brother and the dudezzz. I love all things Dance (LA street jazz, east coast hip hop, krumping, jazz, tap, ballet, samba, salsa, ballroom, modern, contemporary, bellydancing),the big movie pickles, Adam loves all things spicy (French cajun) that makes his head sweat, exploring all things "pepper", I love improving business processes and teaching Adults(my job currently). We are technology geeks and intellectuals that enjoy skipping stones on pretty beaches (we love PV), financial and business accumen, learning about investing and stock trading, Don Julio tequila shots, Mexico beaches, travels in Europe, Longhorn Sports, puppetry, night swimming at our house, having friends over, happy hours and Sunday brunch with friends (The Breakfast Club) at our usual Z Tejas, rollerskating on Adult Night, BBQs and festivities with friends, traveling for concerts and local shows about town, Pilates, I love sewing, kickboxing, we love being goofballs, skipping, Art museum junkies, playing Mad Libs, robot voices and we love to make up words, trading travel stories, NYC shopping (gotta hit the H&M), running our toes through the sand while drinking on the beach, drumming, guitar playing, good reads, we both love writing poetry & short stories, photography, jetsetting around the US and internationally, cuddling with each other every chance we get, laughing so hard our tummies hurt, watching great films, bike riding, petting our neighborhood kitties, sleeping, walking in the parks around town, random roadtrips, people watching that inspires laughter (airports), curiosity, boating with friends & partying at lakehouses, sitting outside on patios, pina coladas and getting caughting in the rain. Most of all, we LOVE each other!
I'd like to meet:
We've met our better halves of ourselves. That is all we need. :)
Music:
Same music we like(just to name a few): The Cure, Watch the music documentary "Urgh! A Music War" and you will get the picture!The Smiths, Nina Simone, English Beat, Battles, Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Kate Bush, Fugazi, Joy Division, New Order, Edith Piaf, X, Depeche Mode, Interpol, HIP HOP, Air, Daniel Johnston, Radiohead, Nick Drake, Apex Twin, Jeff Buckley, 80's music anything from New Wave to the obscure postpunk, Journey (Steve Perry only!), The Faint, Built to Spill, Clinic, Catpower, Gypsy Kings, 1940s French music, indie pop, dark wave, nu-nu wave, post punk, Sade, Daft Punk, classical music and piano concertos(Chopin), John Coltrane, old timey country like Roger Miller, anything with a cowbell and kazoo, Gary P Numan, Postal Service, DCFC, Blonde Redhead, Eva Cesaria, some Disco, old school soul and funk, latin music, indie rock, did I mention obscure 80's new wave?, any type of robot sounding music, and so much more. We are music whores. Oh and a lot of what Moshi Moshi has been putting out. Thanks Stephen! :)
Movies:
Too many! but here are some we both love: Harold and Maude, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Amelie, anything by Terry Gilliam, Army of Darkness, Kubrick, The Bourne movies, Umberto D, Blow Up, The Princess and the Warrior, V For Vendetta, Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Fame, This is Spinal Tap, Garden State , Donnie Darko, Talk to Her(any Almodovar movies), Rushmore, Sex and Lucia, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Space Balls, The Women, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Less Than Zero, The Last Days of Disco (smart writing-precursor style to Sex and the City), The Matrix, Cinema Paradiso, Valley Girl, Under the Tuscan Sun, Closer, some Woody Allen, Amadeus, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Say Anything and any 80's movie by John Hughes, Coen Brothers, Hitchcock, indie, and foreign movies. I'm really getting into the Criterion collection and some all-time greats because Adam is a walking film collection. Our latest fave movies we've recently seen: "Once", "Juno" (great movie and soundtrack!), "No Country for Old Men" (impeccable writing by Cormac McCarthy) and "LARS and the Real Girl"(written by Six Feet Under scribe Nancy Oliver). Persepolis, the animated film adaptation of the graphic novel is great too!
Television:
Our all time faves are Six Feet Under, VH-1 80's videos, 120 Minutes, "Sopranos," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Seinfeld." Our new faves are "Dexter," "Freaks and Geeks," "In Treatment," and of course "Flight of the Conchords!"and any dance related show.
Books:
Are you kidding? I'm an English Major!? and Adam is a power reader: Right about now...Abundance, The Kite Runner, Blink, Wired Magazine, Fortune, The Nest Magazine, Freakonomics, A Brief History of Time, The Golden Compass, Wicked, Lies at the Altar (great book to read before you get married), Marie Antoinette: The Journey, In Cold Blood, Among the Missing, Corpus Christi by Bret Johnston, Blues People, The Tao of Pooh, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Nice Girl's Don't Get Rich, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office, The Stranger by Camus, The Magic of Blood by Dagoberto Gilb, Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf, Bridget Jones' Diary, Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, Anything by Poe, e.e. cummings, Burroughs, Flannery O' Connor, Edith Wharton, Capote, Toni Morrison, Oscar Wilde, The Wife of Bath by Chaucer, anything by Shakespeare, Cormac McCarthy, Kerouac, Kafka, and Sandra Cisneros, I Put a Spell on You-Autobio of Nina Simone, Love in the Time of Cholera, and on and on and on...
Heroes:
I'm claiming this space for me. LOL "Well behaved women rarely make history"...Maya Angelou, the "Carrie Bradshaws" of the world, Alisa Valdes Rodriguez, Mommita, Dr. Lisa Sanchez Gonzales, my Grad School profs, especially Dr. Morrison, Dr. Grayson, and Dr. Parkin-Speer, Nina Simone, Frida Kahlo, Sandra Cisneros and any woman who tries to make a difference in what they do whether it be artistically, politically, musically, etc. My men in my life: my Dad, brother, Adam, who is my Super Man, because he takes great care of me and treats me like a queen, and last but certainly not least...my cousin, Ricky, an honorable soldier who was killed in Iraq.
