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Bananita

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu

About Me

i am a military brat I am progressive and a radical thinker, i need diversity at all times and cultures of all types have my respect i have been exposed to alot of nationalities growing up and have great respect for all of them i was born in Japan...lived in california.new mexico.germany.nevada texas. Los Angeles is home to me and my family... they grew up here so in essence my roots are here too...i love LA my mother is of mexican decent and father of irish decent traveled much of my life i was to my amazement present during the fall of the Berlin wall, and at age 14 took a sledge hammer to it. in Paris at its 100 yr anniversary of the Eiffel tower... and my favorite place Guanajuato Mexico where one day I will go back again to visit where my ancestors are from.....i love to watch movies.....go to concerts. ..love music and art shows.. i love artsy creative types... and rebels......me with a bee me with a bee self portrait .. Me... joining in on the festivities ...downtown LA 2003

My Interests

Dancing!!!listening to records, creating friendships, studying alternative medicine and natural healing (herbs)any thing to do with the healing arts massage therapy, facials, acupuncture....pedicures, make-up,fashion,anything Japanese, riding bikes, good conversation and steamy debates on politics, religion.....etc, traveling, rebelling of many forms....creativity in general,making jewelry, getting crafty with things, anything.....taking my dogs to the park..would love to play different instruments..in particular African drum..congas ......trying to learn Spanish...I also would like to learn dances.. and catch up on all the great films ever madeFree Iraq!! Stop production of Nuclear Weapons!! Save the environment!! Stop animal abuse!!! Free Mumia Abu Jamal!!! Free the Cuban 5!!!! Free all Puerto Rican Political Prisoners!! Stop the Nafta Agreement!! Charge Bush J.R. and Cheney for war crimes.!!!!! Stop the European missile defense on European countries!!!!Shut down Guantanamo Bay!! Free Puerto Rico!! Stop Racism !!! Stop Police Brutality!!!! Stop Exploitation!!!! Power to the Zapatistas Movement!! Power to the Sadinasta Movement!! Power to the The Bolivarian Movement!! Stop the oppression of Maquiladores workers.!!! Power to the Occupation of the poor in Argentinas factories!!!@#%*#@

I'd like to meet:

Me... joining in on the festivities ...downtown LA 2003Arundhati Roy, Hugo Chavez, John Stewart, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, David Blaine, Bill Murry, Cohen Brothers, Saul Williams, Dave Chapelle, Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra, The Dali Lama................

Music:

i love most latin music especially afrocubano and cumbia..... old blues, jazz, funk, reggae.... roots, dub...I Love love love soul music, rap, hip hop, punk, old underground 60's garage, rock in espanol alot of stuff politically progressive and thought provokingmars volta, the slits, rage against the machine, Heart, cesaria evora, mos def, tribe called quest, public enemy, black moon, dead prez, bob marley, the crusaders, Morcheeba, Tricky, portishead, curtis mayfield, Lila Downs, Manu Dibango, Manu Chao, Julietta Venagas, willie bobo, ceila cruz, jose feliciano, susanna baca, candy staton, Aretha Franklin, nina simone,Sly and The Family Stone, afrika bambatta, shuggie otis, prince, fela, femi kuti, very be careful, the crusaders, Lonnie Liston, Erika Badu, Digable Planets, Jill Scott, isley brothers, donnie hathaway, the pharcyde, out cast, mc 5, hendrix ,Kinks, LOVE, Donovan, Creedence Clear Water, bob dylan, america, buffalo springfield, niel young, saul willams, pj harvey,radiohead, pixies, cramps, Fugazi, Danzig, Rob Zombie, it goes on and on ......

Movies:

The Visitor,Iron Man, Groundhog Day, Broken Flowers, there will be blood, Trade, Lost in Translation, no country for old men, Raising Arizona, blood diamonds, Slam, Life Aquatic, 40 year old virgin, the royal tennenbaums, serpico, the car wash, crash, edward scissor hands, 28 days later, eternal sunshine spotless mind, Syriana, bloc party, sean of the dead, rushmore, basquiat, elephant man, Cool Hand Luke, Planet of the Apes, the big labowski, neverending story, gorrilas in the mist, frida, american beauty, y tu mama tambien, motor cycle diaries, the devils backbone, The constant gardner, Curse of the golden flower, crouching tiger hidden dragon, house of the flying daggers, the usual suspects, goonies.....oohh so many more..........I love foriegn films i absolutely love love documentries, an inconvienent truth, Farenhiet 911, roger and me, bowling for colombine,bushs brain, Rupert murdock's war on journalism out foxed, mad hot ballroom,Born into brothels, The Grizzly Man, Super Size Me, Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, march of the penguins, darwins nightmare, sir! no, sir!..sicko..loose change,ziet giest, jesus camp, the revolution will not be televised (about hugo chavez)these all a must see!!

Television:

30 rock, the office, dave chappelle, daily show, reno 911, that 70's show, conan o brian, jimmy kimmel, the dog whisperer, tv nation, the awful truth, quantum leap, Mr. Show, kids in the hall, old Saturday night live..

Books:

Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures "They" dont want you to Know About!! Must read...Prescription for nutritional Healing...Herbal Health Books.... Al Franken's Rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot, Diet for a new America, deepack chopra's Quantum Healing, All women are Healers, cracking the da vinci code, Uncensored, what your teacher wont tell you ....anything noam chomsky, MAGAZINES: the nation, adbusters, jane, bust, readymade, wax poetics...The policies supported by most Americans include government-mandated universal health care, protection of the existing Social Security system, significant and regular increases in the minimum wage, strong environmental protections, fair global trade and investment rules, respect for international law and institutions, the privileging of domestic social spending and health over military expenditures, adequate and fair spending on public schools, reduction in the influence that corporations hold over U.S. government, reduction of big-money special-interest influence on politics, and (by the way) the rapid removal of U.S. forces from illegally occupied Iraq. None of this opinion seems to matter all that much under the rules of American "dollar democracy," the "best that money can [and did] buy" and that dominant (so-called "mainstream") corporate media can control (Chomsky 2006, pp. 205-250).

Heroes:

Arundhati Roy ,Al Gore for making a great film, Michael Moore, my grannie, teachers who are doing it the right way, and anyone out there trying to get the truth out in the open, despite repression...... jane goodall, hugo chavez ,che, zapata, MLK , ghandi......

My Blog

Freedom and Integrity

Freedom and IntegrityBy Carrie Hart What is freedom? What is integrity? Is the display of your emotion, as real as it feels in the moment, an expression of freedom and integrity? Or is it actually fre...
Posted by Bananita on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:29:00 PST

"Be grateful to everyone"

i want to keep this philosophy close to me always ....and to never forget how important it is to practice it everyday...  peace and love ....anna bananaThe slogan "Be grateful to everyone" is abo...
Posted by Bananita on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:00:00 PST

grown women vs girls

Girls want to control the man in their life.Grown women know that if he's truly hers, he doesn't need controlling.Girls check you for not calling them.Grown women are too busy to realize you hadn't.Gi...
Posted by Bananita on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:38:00 PST

to detach or not to detach...that is the question?

  Azul posted this and i really like it...makes sense to me...now its really about putting this knowledge into practice..read on my friends There is another Law in conscious creation of real...
Posted by Bananita on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:09:00 PST

My rant of a poem...really angry after 911...

       NO TO THIS GORE CALLED WAR!!!! I understand the man has got a plan to annilate the "Evil Doer Man", by droppin some shit on  foreign land some say the H...
Posted by Bananita on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 10:14:00 PST