Editing (check out the trailer for skillz' comedy DVD). Backpacking. Water, rivers, lakes, swimming. I like swimming in lakes at night under a full moon. Raise your glasses to Detroit and Applegate. ;) I like days when I can walk to the oak forest and feel the sun in the shade. I like marshmallow comforters. I like swimming with fish in the red tide. I like watching films in the dark. I enjoy speaking Spanish. I like the strange language that guy and his little sister spoke at the hot tub near Disneyland which is still a mystery to me. I like dangerous roller coasters. I love Costa Rica. I come alive when salsa dancing. I like dancing with guys who may or may not know how to dance. I try to cultivate peace. I like Quakers. I like Woodburn and all of the Mexican Americans. I like asking for marshmallow ice cream at Bon and being told that it´s not ice cream. I like movies with twists. I like wild horses galloping together across the plains of Wyoming. I like titillating lightning and thunder storms. I feel sleepy but soothed in candlelight. I like small boutiques. I LOVE Farmer's Markets. I like buying quarters of our neighbor's cows. I like spending long hours of unexpected time with old friends and complete strangers. I like MST3K. I like getting along well with people my brother's age. I like beach houses. I like drifting on an open sea. I like climbing mountains and hiking. I like watching a surprisingly lovely film I had never heard of. I like short shorts. and... i like... editing films.
I'd like to meet:
Aime Cesaire
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Ben Okri
Music:
Music... anything that makes me want to dance... old salsa, merengue, Paris Combo... and...the Decemberists, Regina Spektor, Coldplay, Pedro the Lion, the Violent Femmes, Muse, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Noggin Toboggan, Aesop Rock, Beck, Deerhoof, Coco Rosie... and whatever else moves me... Moulin Rouge, Sufjan Stevens, Laura Veirs, Ocean's 11, and Requiem for a Dream Soundtracks, Dead Prez, the Fugees, RJD2, P.E....etc.
Movies:
Bottle Rocket... watch it if you want to get my sense of humor... Requiem for a Dream (this movie does everything film was meant to do), anything by Luis Bunuel, Film by Samuel Beckett, anything by Maya Deren, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, In the Bedroom, anything by Wes Anderson, The Star Wars Trilogy:4-6, The Great Escape, Cool Hand Luke, Punch-Drunk Love, Sense and Sensibility, Super Mario Bros., Do the Right Thing, Donnie Darko, The Fifth Element, Fight Club, Mitchell- or anything else MST3K, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Hero, Princess Mononoke, The Dirty Dozen, Braveheart, Pi, and anything Batman.
Television:
Arrested Development, Reno 911, Scrubs, The Office, My Name is Earl, most of Adult Swim, South Park, The Simpsons, Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place, Family Guy, SNL, and Law and Order- the original.
Books:
The Things They Carried, Godric, The Griffin and Sabine Series, The Brothers Karamazov (and more of Dostoevsky), The Brothers K, Fight Club, Alibi School, In Arcadia, Philosophical Fragments, On Job, Privilege, Power, and Difference, Jeffrey McDaniels poetry, all the poetry by Aime Cesaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, Isabel Allende...
Heroes:
Jon Kvassay, Jesus, anyone who speaks more than one language fluently, my courageous trapeze artist parents, my hilarious brother who will always be one of my best friends, and (emi)immigrants.
