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lizz huerta

is on the farm.

About Me

Writer, faux finish painter, artist, smart-ass. I like being alone. I am occasionally sarcastic.

My Interests

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.

I'd like to meet:

rilke's sexy ghost. mi santa peccatrix.

Music:

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

Movies:

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.

Television:

Survivorman; I Shouldn't Be Alive; Mythbusters; The Office; Shalom in the Home; Ladette to Lady; Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.

Books:

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. . .

Heroes:

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.

My Blog

I meant it!

This afternoon my family gathered to celebrate a cousin's birthday and to wish my Grandfather, a WWII Veteran, a Happy Veteran's Day. There was a card we all had to sign for him. I wrote:Grandpa, I ...
Posted by lizz huerta on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:00:00 PST

translating poetry hurts my brain, help!!

Last year in Spain I fell in love with the work of Luis Cernuda and have been playing around with his poems, trying to translate some of them.  The problem was, that everytime I sat down to trans...
Posted by lizz huerta on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:26:00 PST

Chupacabra

The news this week says the mythical Chupacabra may have been found in Texas. I found this news worthy of sharing with my Puerto Rican Grandma this morning. Grandma is very superstitious, has subscr...
Posted by lizz huerta on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:10:00 PST

how do I explain?

Today I was working in the the house of a very wealthy family, gold-leafing the railing. Two young Mexican women were also working the house, scraping dried cement off of the windows with razor blade...
Posted by lizz huerta on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:02:00 PST

200,000

Today my car's odometer hit 200,000 miles while I was driving to work. It was a proud moment for me and I patted the steering wheel in appreciation for all of the places my car and I have gone togeth...
Posted by lizz huerta on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:05:00 PST

Congratulations Rulands

Congratulations to my good friends Nuvia and Jim. They were married on Saturday and their wedding was probaby the most fun I've had with my clothes on in ages. My hips still hurt from dancing and I ...
Posted by lizz huerta on Mon, 28 May 2007 03:39:00 PST

The Passion of the Night Terrors

If you ever get really sick, with a fever that makes you hallucinate a little bit, DO NOT watch _The Passion of the Christ_ before you go to bed. I made this mistake last night and my dreams were jus...
Posted by lizz huerta on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:46:00 PST

video content

We had a huge family party yesterday for Grandpa George, on the Mexican side of the family. We did it all out, mariachis, carnitas, a bar (with my underage sister as the bartender) and the whole dang...
Posted by lizz huerta on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:20:00 PST

Maria Maria la otra Maria

Working on some new writing that is a bit inspired. Not to play into all that Da Vinci Code desmadre but I was reading the Gnostic text _The Gospel of Mary Magdalene_ and it kept me up late thinkin...
Posted by lizz huerta on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:18:00 PST

Mexico

Ay de mi. I am missing Mexico today. I realize I haven't been back in over a year. The last time I was there was during my '05 road trip through the northern half. I've made side trips to Tijuana,...
Posted by lizz huerta on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:26:00 PST