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Vèrta Reyes

dulcius ex asperis

About Me

I'm a firm believer in the pleasure of the little things in life. I am a perfect example of everything that can go wrong on two legs, but for some reason those legs just keep on moving. I come from Opus Dei stock & Spanish Gypsy royalty, too. I speak Spanish & English, & can hold a conversation for a while in Italian, follow an entire Bollywood film in Portuguese subtitles & follow a football match in Romanian as well. I lack the fixitive of regret, & am a romantic to the point of regurgitation. I have a million stories that I'll tell one day to the one person with whom I'll will write a million more. I feel most at home near a river, but relatively never really at home anywhere. I tell people how I feel because I know first-hand that life is precious & tomorrow is not guaranteed. I really want a front porch to sit on & watch the storms & contemplate life. If I had to breathe Southern air for the rest of my days, that would be just fine with me.
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Pilgrim Woman
oil pastel on IKEA catalog page
I really am an ENFP. But this isn't entirely right. Almost, though.
You Are An ENFP
The Inspirer
You love being around people, and you are deeply committed to your friends. / You are also unconventional, irreverent, and unimpressed by authority and rules. / Incredibly perceptive, you can usually sense if someone has hidden motives. / You use lots of colorful language and expressions. You're quite the storyteller! // In love, you are quite the charmer. And you are definitely willing to risk your heart. / You often don't follow through with your flirting or professed feelings. And you do break a lot of hearts. // At work, you are driven but not a workaholic. You just always seem to enjoy what you do. / You would make an excellent entrepreneur, politician, or journalist. // How you see yourself: compassionate, unselfish, and understanding. // When other people don't get you, they see you as: gushy, emotional, and unfocused. What's Your Personality Type?

My Interests

books, art, football (SEVILLA FC), nascar (sadler & kahne dodge whaaat), american cars, Chanel No.5, music, wine, travel, rooftops, spanish history, anatomy, shqip, cigarettes, hearing david talk latin, golashes, striped socks, cooking, that aquarius drink, stained glass, rain, driving, big sunglasses, fashion design, print-making, learning new things, reading, writing

I'd like to meet:


People with stories to tell.

Oh, & these boys:

Kasey Kahne no.9

Elliot Sadler no.19

so we can race, i mean ...

Music:

Music genres: The most exciting music possible, Flamenco puro, Spanish pop, classical music, traditional Gypsy music, Outlaw Country, honkey tonk, older music over newer music, highly orcehstratic and dramatic music with a lot of instruments and crescendos, piano, clarinet, violin, flute, amazing sounds, Cuban music, tango, yé-yé, Turkish music

Musicians: La Niña de la Puebla, At the Drive-In, Frank Sinatra, Édith Piaf, Alejandro Sanz, Jerry Jeff Walker, Tom Petty, Pignoise, Oum Kalthoum, Ayten Alpman, Dion & the Belmonts, Maria Callas, Billie Holiday, Paulo Bragança, Tchaikovsky, Robert Schumann, Goran Bregovic, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Astor Piazzolla, Pepe & the Bottle Blondes, David Tubbs & his amazing violin, Pink Martini, Dashboard Confessional, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ernesto Lecuona, Fiona Apple, Miguel Bosé, The White Stripes

Movies:

Cool Hand Luke, Sólo por un tango, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Ladies & Gentlemen: The Fabulous Stains, Il Vangelo secondo Matteo, The Godfather Trilogy (III is the best for its shear artistic quality, one of my favourite conversation topics!!), Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Conspiracy, Un Chien Andalou, Braveheart, Requiem for a Dream, Pi, Harry Palmer :), Nosferatu, Juice, Cowboy movies, Jesus films, classic Bollywood

Television:

Bones, Jesus Quintero, Cruz y Raya, Los Morancos, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development

CURRO JIMENEZ

Books:

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García Lorca, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Suheir Hammad, John Steinbeck, Mayakovsky, e.e.cummings, Reinaldo Arenas, Salman Rushdie, Chuck Palahniuk, Zadie Smith, Ayn Rand, Augusten Burroughs, Kafka, Forster, Umberto Eco, Nick Hornby, Rimbaud, Pérez-Reverte, Michael Patrick MacDonald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Isabel Allende, Antonio Machado, James St. James, Kundera, Cowboy novels, Mystery novels, the real Arsène Lupin stories, real pulp fiction

Heroes:



"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else." - Umberto Eco

"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

VAMOS MI SEVILLA
VAMOS CAMPEOOOOON


My Blog

[Art & Stability.]

A conversation between my father & myself: VR: Are there any young, handsome Pettys? MD: (Shakes his head.) I don't know. VR: You'd be pretty disappointed if I married a Petty, wouldn't you? MD: (...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:21:00 PST

[Electric Beauty]

Yesterday my co-worker Jen & I took a smoke break in our company's smoking gazebo at circa 1500hrs. As soon as we got outside, it looked like rain. Like, for-real-FOR-REAL rain. I figured tha...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:52:00 PST

It's so unusual ...

VIRTUAL BODYGo to that site. Go to the Spanish section. Listen to the man's voice. If you know Spanish, or at least have heard it a lot before, you probably know that most "universal" Spanish voices ...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:29:00 PST

ANATOMY IS COOL

Although I'm only on Unit Two: Tissues of the Body, & more specifically Lesson Two: Connective Tissues in that section, I think I might enjoy bones & blood most of all. I'm going to explore al...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:37:00 PST

Energy.

  Remember: You have control over your life, and the way you feel. Don't let negative energy hold you down, and do whatever you can to completely stomp it out of your life. It's a lot easier than...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:15:00 PST

Just an update!

I've been in Spain for 5 months and 5 days, almost on the minute. I arrived here sometime within the 9 o'clock hour, at the Barajas Airport in Madrid. I was scared shitless. I didn't know if I could s...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:02:00 PST

SEVILLA

Im in Sevilla and its amazing. Ive been here almost a month and it feels amazing.
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 03:46:00 PST

I love to watch children dying.

I love to watch children dying.Do you note, behind protruding nostalgia,the shadowy billow of laughter's surf?But I--in the reading room of the streets--have leafed so often through the volume of...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 06:06:00 PST

09.12.05 Voice post on blog

I have posted a new voice post on my blog. It is me reading from one of my new favorite books. Click on the link below to listen and read the transcript.V o i c e  P o s t     ....
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:17:00 PST

Amazing.

  It's absolutely no coincidence that the time is 8:08. I love working at a bookstore because I get to read amazing, unreleased, free books about awesome natural disasters. Awesome in the biblic...
Posted by Vèrta Reyes on Sun, 18 Sep 2005 05:17:00 PST