Writing. Books. Travel. I dig good red wine and interesting conversations. I dig good poetry, short stories and things that make me go hmmm. A few, good friends. Adventures. The Unknown. Silence. Tea.
rilke's sexy ghost. mi santa peccatrix.
Andrea Echeverri, Sade, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Lila Downs, PJ Harvey, Julie Delpy, Trio Music, Mariachi Music (I used to play in a mariachi band!), Los Aterciopelados, Ely Guerra, Manu Chao, Los Enanitos Verdes, Cat Power, The Roots, Aimee Mann, Los Lobos, Ozomatli, Julieta Venegas, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Michael Jackson, Lupe Fiasco, Chopin, Tilly and the Wall, M.I.A., Irving, Dean and Britta, Rufus Wainwright, Neil Diamond, Erykah Badu, Nick Drake, Marc Anthony, Jill Scot, Zap Mama, Depeche Mode, Aretha Franklin, Sandy Denny, Otis Redding, The Art Laboe Show, The Carpenters, Barry Manilow, my Dad playing his guitar in the backyard, singing to my mom
Love the Hard Way, Henry and June, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amores Perros, Casablanca, Peewee's Big Adventure, The Lover, Tim Burton films, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, I like cheesy old musicals; Little Miss Sunshine, The Muppets Take Manhattan; Pride and Prejudice, Star Wars, Time Bandits, The Dark Crystal, The Last Unicorn, Dot and the Kangaroo, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, any Miyazake anime (oh Lord, my dork is showing!!) . . I generally like arthouse films but rarely to the movies.
Survivorman; I Shouldn't Be Alive; Mythbusters; The Office; Shalom in the Home; Ladette to Lady; Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.
lots of them; favorite writers: Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Joy Harjo, Li-Young Lee, Charles De Lint, Anais Nin, Rilke, Tomas Riley, Charles de Lint, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Patty Smith, Junot Diaz, LM Montgomery, Jeffrey McDaniel, Jimmy Jazz, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nikki Giovanni, Loverboy, Barbara Kingslover; Ben Okri, Luis Cernuda, Phillip Pullman, Louise Erdrich, Aimee Bender, many more than this. . .
my ma and pa. my crazy mexican and puerto rican grandmothers, my family. StephDLT, the Mama Crew, Pan Dulce, Mike Rowe. Loverboy. My dad, serenading Buddy the poodle.