words in all forms cultural theory travel social justice coffee dogs accidental poetry lately, visiting the latin amercan countries that used to be "no go zones"- what does that mean, anyway? great food and even better wine making random lists political ranting and the activism that follows it conversations that last for hours swimming non-linear everything anti-binary thought documentaries ska old blues things that make noise being quiet reading books i am powerless to put down dancing Whitney's bonnets pounding the streets of PDX, but not with my rear, thank you! paintings by the bro(jfro5000, check it out!) not being a wage slave loving my work changing my mind...
I'm approaching this as an extension of the net of friends who are my chosen family.(don't we call that "framily"?)(ed.) Looking for like minded (though not identical) humans...be passionate, artistic, political, wordy, academic, highly caffeinated, a sucker for a well executed pint of guinness or glass of red wine, be comfortable in your own skin and happy with who and where you are, as I am. Love what you love...
yes please... ska(the specials and desmond dekker and the like) blues anything african or latin american 80's emo pop billy bragg elvis costello cowboy junkies jolie holland be good tanyas otis redding nina simone Etta nitin sawney mix CD's from jasospace the tabla drum in general amadou&miriam son house debbie harry(but mostly as blondie) fancygrrl brenda fosie cassandra wilson anything Tuvan(look it up!) Senor Coconut does Kraftwerk!!! Bad +(does aphex twin,veloria and other dorky boy fun! hello! can i have some?) Pogues(before Shane McGowan went down the bottle) Jonathan Richman(we love that summer feeling and the sweatshirt song i don't remember the title of) bluegrass prince anything i can sing to west side story cabaret billie holliday scissor sisters stereo total belle and sebastien robert johnson manu chau david bowie smiths of late and very portland centric: blue cranes and the way downs an endless list of others...
i'm partial to documentaries and "world cinema" current favourites include: monsoon wedding before night falls the corporation martin scorsese's blues series longtime companion bound mondovino battle of algiers breakfast at tiffany's anything almodovar welcome to the dollhouse ghost world velvet goldmine the sea inside my summer of love john hughes in all his glory frida(yes ok, fallible but oh so tempting!) y tu mama tambien the wind that shakes the barley eastern promises children of men bellevue rendezvous the queen manufacturing consent
lately, cooking shows ad naueseum and house- hugh laurie plays pugnacious yank with limp? um...yeah, i'll watch that(am i drooling?)
currently: Other Colors, Orhan Pamuk, Gutted, Justin Chin and Picnic,Lightening, Billy Collins and anything Eduardo Geleano ever wrote and cookery books aplenty(its bread making season!) oh and also, Joe Sacco! Palestine & Safe Area: Gorazde, graphic novels more truthful then any news medium anywhere. and Art Spiegleman(sp?), MAUS and lately, In the shadow of no towers, see note on news...what was that i said about everything all at once? i read everything!usually all at once... Salman Rushdie: satanic verses, midnights children especially Jhumpa Lahiri Middlesex Foucault Gender Trouble Billy Collins Bukowski Beckett (malloy, malone dies and krapp's last tape- over and over again) Sandra Cisneros Borges Noam Chomsky Ian Hacking David Meltzer Hannah Arendt Mary Douglass bell hooks Alice Walker Jamaica Kincaid Lorca Neruda Sandra Cisneros VS Neipal Geoff Dyer Jeanette Winterson
yes i have some. mostly they are people i already know and love...