bicycles, brooklyn, lucha libre, carrot/beet/ginger juice, tango, skin, ocean, surfers, live music, dance parties, photoshop, story, community pride, getting mail, cocktails, the colors brown and blue, climbing trees, polaroids, comfortable shoes, polyglots and anaglyphs, learning how things work, the Rosas boys, homemade pie and lemonade
spray paint and sharpies
pura vida
people who tango. I don't mean to be a jerk, but I really have enough friends and if you are trying to turn me on to your music or blog or whatever.. I'm not that interested. more here to keep in touch with family and friends. I like to meet people en vivo and I'm not going to add you unless I know you. or you're pablo veron.
recordings: miguel caló, jeff buckley, caetano veloso, nina simone, neko case, neil young, aphex twin, julio jaramillo, joni mitchell, leonard cohen, interpol, celia cruz, nick drake, radiohead, mala rodriguez, lucinda williams, mogwai, harry belafonte, cesaria evora, old instrumentals.
live: almost anything at zebulon (listen at http://zebuloncafeconcert.com/radio.html), or at moto (you just have to go there.) in california tom brosseau and frank lee drennen are two men with incredible voices. and dubchops spins 'em up good at the whistle at friends chill.
singing: jeff buckley, dead rock west, bonnie, lucinda, joni, great american folksingers ("please don't trip!")
would love to see sung at karaoke by jason gerken: "fancy dancer" by bread.
also spend time listening to on my headphones: this american life, french language lessons, npr
ali: fear eats the soul, high noon, breathless, y tu mamá tambien, la communidad, dÃa de la bestia, the princess and the warrior, the third man, the limey, the idiots, shadows, trading places, delicatessen, women on the verge, rosemary´s baby, waking the dead, dazed and confused
the golden girls, arrested development, lost, barcelona late night programming, fishing with john
the dictionary, bell hooks, james baldwin, walt whitman, salman rushdie, ernest hemingway, my year of meats, raymond carver, the house on mango street, honore balzac, their eyes were watching god, the tin drum, the passion, miguel street, roald dahl, haruki murakami, the dharma bums, gabriel garcia marquez, miguel hernandez, "a las desalentadas amapolas daré tu corazón por alimento.."
malcolm x, bell hooks, estelle getty