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Im a total a bookworm, i love to read, I love watching all different genre's of film ( I guess you could call it a hobby). I'm also crazy about those PBS specials like "The Tzars of Russia", "Human Origins", and "Merchants of Cool" (those were a few of my favorites). I love to study all aspects of History and Culture from around the world. Im also very curious about people and their personal tragedies. Everyone has a story to tell, and im always eager to listern to someone elses story.
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Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Henry David Thoreau (a true rebel), Andy Warhol, Henry Miller, Salvador Dali, Dan Eldon, Shirley Temple, Eleanor Coppola, there's really a whole lot of people I would love to meet!
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I love all different styles of music. Anything from Janis Joplin to Louis Armstrong. Everthing from Hip Hop to Indie Rock. I love latin music, Cumbia, Salsa, Merengue! I even love Operas and MGM musicals by Irving Berlin or George Gershwin. I also really love music that is folk inspired, there is such great beauty and simplicity when all the noise is stripped bare untill it is just a voice and just an instrument. It's so interesting to me how music recalls the memory of certain places and people. What I love most about music is how it keeps a sensory timeline of your life, for example everytime I hear The Smashing Pumpkins it reminds me of when I was a 7th grader. I can remember all the things I was feeling at that exact moment. I can even picture myself walking down the halls of my junior high and being engulfed in the stench of adolescent bodies. I recall the great urgency we all felt to hurry & get somewhere before the bell rang. joanna newsom sam beam sufjan stevens
My all time favorite movie is Titus by Julie Taymor, who also directed Frida. I think that City of God is one of the most powerful movies I have seen in a very long time. Latin Cinema has finally proven itself with movies like Maria Full of Grace and Amores Perros, it makes me feel so proud to be a Latina. I also love movies by Pedro Almodovar; About My Mother, Talk to Her, and Bad Education. I'm a really big fan of all of Wes Anderson's films, his characters are so uniquely stylized. I like Todd Solandz films, he directed Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness. I love any movie with the french actress Audrey Tatou in it and I love anything with the screen siren Marilyn Monroe. I love film noirs like Double Indemnity. I also like most of the European films that were made in the 1960's, alot of good cinema came out of the 60's and 70's everywhere. I love the classics like On the Waterfront, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, ect. I could go on and on so I might as well just stop now.
PBS, A&E, The History Channel, (my secret sin is that I love to watch those shows about murder and crime and mysteries solved like Law and Order, CSI, Cold Cases).
The Country Under My Skin by Giaconda Belli is hands down my favorite book ever written! It is her memoir, she recounts being a Sandanista who helped lead a guerilla movement that overthrough the Nicaraguan government! She is also a poet so it is beautifully and insightfully written. I also am crazy about Henry Miller. He was so insanely intense, i just get lost in his work and i absolutely love that!
Jorge Ramos is my hero and he has been ever since I was a little girl. I grew up watching him on UNIVISION. He is a news journalist, a writter, a political activist, and an ambassador. He is truly amazing! This spring my husband took me to Borders where unbeknownst to me Jorge Ramos was having a book signing. Jeff waited in line with me untill I got to shake the mans hands, exchange kisses on the cheek, and get my book autographed. I got the chance to tell him what he meant to me and how proud i am of him. Jeff photographed the whole thing so I can always remember it! Jorge was so kind, humble, patient, and funny (he made a joke about Jeff's hair) just the way you'd imagine a hero should be. I will always love my husband for doing that for me, he didn't even really know who Jorge Ramos was!