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Lucia

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit - Aristotle

About Me

spontaneous, outgoing, full of verve and pep, going 100 miles a minute, and then crashing into oblivion, only to get back up again....I will try anything and have done most everything, focused on me and my life and my career... I love my family and cherish my friends, love all the forms of art, and am passionate about all my loves :-)

My Interests

everything and anything : art, capoeira, surfers, music, film, books!, poetry, travel, the ocean, dragonboat paddling, mountain-climbing, surfing, scuba-diving,futbol, beach-tripping, photography, rpg,dogs,motorcycles,kissing, vintage shops, exploring cities, getting lost and found, theater, underground, walking in the rain, tasting desserts, adventurous drink-mixing, cheering up friends, going out, staying in, wierd movies, sunrises, sunsets, moongazing, rooftop chillin'

I'd like to meet:

you who lives the moment, you who is honest, you who is compassion, you who is real and true to yourself, you who personify creativity, who bloom with passion, who fly with the stars, who live for and with their dreams... nonconformists of the world, strong personalities, great kissers, marvelous lovers of life, beach and ocean junkies, !Brazilians!, kindred spirits, my soul MaTes, age-wise souls and ... artists, artists, artists !!!

Music:

defines my moments and creates me = current ear candy: the Whigs, CSS, Raconteurs, grand ole party, jupiter rising, feist, telepopmusik, the cool kids, cornelius, seal, busdriver, daedelus, gym class heroes, nina simone, regina spektor, little brother, Ok Go, david bowie, mars volta, jimi hendrix, led zeppelin, sahara hotnights, ella fitzgerald, early Prince, capoeira music, the pixies, miles davis, thelonious monk, goldfrapp, flaming lips, bob marley, air, bach, steve miller band, sublime, madonna, otis redding, jeff buckley, silverchair, royksopp, jack johnson, boards of canada, rilo kiley, janis joplin, damien marley, drip, beatles "abbey road",handsome boy modeling school, tool, the libertines, madeleine peyroux, brazilian girls, indie arie, M.I.A....to name a few...

Movies:

anything by Woody Allen, The Peaceful Warrior, Ghost World, Talk to Me, Thank You for Smoking,Revolver, The Godfather, Buffalo 66, LOTR series, Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, You.Me.and Everyone We Know, U-Turn, Snatch, Requiem for a Dream, Kill Bill, Dreams,City of God, Matrix, Trainspotting, anything by Monty Python,anything by Akira Kurosawa such as Dreams, Dogville, The Five Heartbeats, Clockwork Orange, Dogma, Amelie... to name a few

Television:

Bleach, Samurai 7, Firefly, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, the Black Adder, Entourage

Books:

i have sooo many faves... hhmmm, LOTR series, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, anything by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, anything by Jane Austen, Jean Paul-Sartre, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace, Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, Hitchhiker's Guide series, Trainspotting, anything by Pablo Neruda, W.B. Yeats, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Greek philosophy, Jessica Hagedorn, Jessica Zafra, Neil Gaiman.... to name a few

Heroes:

my mother, Alexander the Great

My Blog

stretch

Sometimes I forget just how human I am, and how limited this physical body is as opposed to my spirit. I push and push myself to do everything, and be everywhere for everybody, using up all my adrenal...
Posted by Lucia on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:14:00 PST

tire drama

so the past few weeks have seen me in a bit of tire drama, the most recent of which was last night. I was definitely and still am definitely NONE too Happy about the recent events, as tires (and the r...
Posted by Lucia on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:24:00 PST

"living" life

There was a time in my still-short life when I was totally and completely fearless. I dove right in, I tackled the seemingly impossible, I laughed with reckless abandon and danced the moon away. I lov...
Posted by Lucia on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:01:00 PST

comfort

I am always amazed by circumstance and serendipity, which still seem to put in their two cents in the ever-fast-pace that constitutes my San Diego life. A good spiritual friend sought advice not ...
Posted by Lucia on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:46:00 PST

excited

just found out that my little sister (the recently married and preggy one), is going to fly in next week!  she decided that she would feel better about giving birth to her first baby (and my firs...
Posted by Lucia on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:25:00 PST

of inner movement

I stay still, quiet in a world of perpetual hum I settle in a crystalline void of pure nothinga whole sense of me a whole feel of you a shared contemplation of the heavy half-moon lingers in our eyesw...
Posted by Lucia on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:13:00 PST

You Know You are Filipino When....

Your middle name is your mother's maiden name. Your parents call each other "Mommy" and "Daddy." You have uncles and aunts named "Boy," "Girlie," or "Baby." You have relatives whose nicknames consis...
Posted by Lucia on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:50:00 PST

Falling

Curious how one is slowly filled with factual delight when in one's continuous presence, the 24/7 reality of two people in accorda lightness of sensibility comes,unbeknownst and unasked for, a gentle ...
Posted by Lucia on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:25:00 PST

my baby .....

10:30 am, July 10, 2008 They are taking my baby to the vet today. He might have to have surgery.... who am I talking about? my adopted babies aka two Labs by the name of Riggs and Marley. Riggs is thi...
Posted by Lucia on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:54:00 PST

in memory of rum on the beach and blue eyes

Drunk as Drunk by Pablo Neruda Translated from the Spanish by Christopher LogueDrunk as drunk on turpentineFrom your open kisses,Your wet body wedgedBetween my wet body and the strakeOf our boat th...
Posted by Lucia on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:33:00 PST