Ione Bleu, my daughter, is my life. Design, Reading, Looking at Beautiful Things (art) and Music Music Music!!  Meeting new people that are different and similar to myself. Laughing, talking, dancin'. I love to talk..especially with those who can hold a real conversation. Learning new things about myself, friends and strangers. Learning new things from my 7 year old. Hearing a new song that makes my heart go pitter patter, and remembering an old song that I forgot. I like cover songs - as long as they are well done. Finding a wad of ca$h money in my pockets and purses. Ohhhh....I love handbags and shoes. I am a girl, what can I say? I love having something to look forward to. Searching for happiness........on and on and on and on....Spring days cos I am a spring baby. Cooking. Eating. Chips and Salsa. Eating chips and salsa. Baking. Reading recipes. Reading cookbooks. Trying new recipes. Making someone smile with food and hearing them say "Mmm thats good". Buying a new cooking utensil!! Cerveza and Vino (Merlot, Pinot, Sauvignon, etc.)Dont really like hard liquor. Friends - the FEW wonderful ones I have. Friendships are relationships that need to be worked on too. People in your life that can say "I know you" and really mean it. That in itself is hard to acquire and maintain.
MJ when he looked like this
I LOVE MAKING PLAYLISTS...ENJOY!!
Ok here it goes...in no particular order - Elliott Smith, YO LA TENGO, Arcade Fire, WIRE, The Smiths, Buzzcocks, The Wedding Present, The Shins(I sooo have a crush on James Mercer), Adventures in Stereo, American Analog Set, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers, LOVE, The Boo Radleys, Grandaddy, The Clash, 4AD RECORDS, TROJAN RECORDS, FACTORY RECORDS, CHERRY RED RECORDS, SARAH RECORDS, Elastica, Jeff Buckley, Rilo Kiley, The Lilys, New Order, Joy Divison, Beat Happening, Orange Juice, Psychedelic Furs, Comet Gain, STEREOLAB, Blonde Redhead, Thievery Corporation, Leonard Cohen, Moose, Interpol, Belle and Sebastian, Talulah Gosh, FELT, April March, Heavenly, The Walkmen, The Dears, Television Personalities, The Softies, Rose Melberg, Rilo Kiley, Broken Social Scene, PULP, Blur (mmmm...Damon), Nick Drake, A Tribe Called Quest, Bloc Party, Bob Marley & the Wailers, TRADITIONAL SKA, SKINHEAD REGGAE, DUB, ROOTS REGGAE, ROCKER'S STYLE, LOVERS ROCK, SOME DANCEHALL, Augustus Pablo, Alton Ellis, Phyllis Dillon, The Webber Sisters, BJORK, The Jam, Paul Weller, The Hit Parade, Pipas, Holiday, Go Sailor, And They Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Trash Can Sinatras, Camera Obscura, The Stone Roses, Velvet Underground, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The Fall, Fugazi, The Marine Girls, ERYKAH BADU (MY GIRL!), I LOVE LOU BARLOW (Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, etc.), Pavement, The Killers, CAN, The Cure, Aisler's Set, The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars, The Orchids, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Black Star, Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Raheem DeVaughn, DWELE (sing to me), M.I.A., Ride, The Pretty Things, Small Faces, My Bloody Valentine, NAS, Gorillaz, Common, Air, Cat Power, Cocteau Twins, Pharcyde, TV on the Radio, Tricky, Bjork, Floetry, Everything But the Girl, Marine Girls (I wish I had Tracey Thorn's voice...angelic), Les Nubians, Joy Division, The Delgado's, Spoon, The Bird and the Bee, The Sundays, k-os, the Roots, L-Boogie (Lauryn Hill), Broadcast, Oui, Missy Elliott, Moving Units, The Meters, Musiq (Soulchild, my honey), The Who, Gang of Four, Le Tigre, The Pixies(MY FAVORITE FAVORITE), and the list goes on and on and on..........
Real Genius "Ice is Nice", Harold and Maude-your token indie flick, Ruben and Ed, All the Real Girls, Willy Wonka, Usual Suspects, Finding Nemo, Love and Basketball, Love & Sex, East is East, WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (Tod Solondz is someone IÂ would love to converse with..I saw him in Santa Monica!!!), Office Space, Ghost World, Me Without You, Jamie Foxx's "I Might Need Security" (damn...can you breathe when you watch this..I cant..laughing way too hard),Garden State, Amores Perros, Science of Sleep, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Babel (I like Gael Garcia Bernal, forgive me), JUNO, Bottlerocket, etc....Basically what it boils down to is this: memorable dialogue + good acting + good tunes (soundtrack) = me likey.
Can somebody tell me what happened to MTV'S The State??? Why in the hell was that cancelled??? Good Television. Umm..what else....guilty pleasures like Grey's Anatomy, Scrubs, The Office, Nip/Tuck, Curb Your Enthusiam (Larry David is a genius), PROJECT RUNWAY!!!, TOP CHEF!!!, SNL (with Jimmy Fallon..boohoo he's gone),Good Times, Girlfriend's, almost anything on THE FOOD NETWORK (Bobby Flay can rock my world and I love love love Giada De Laurentiis too. I love watching standup on Comedy Central.
Heres a sampler: The Fountainhead (classic), Head On (by Julian Cope....great music read), Youth in Revolt (CD Payne.....hilarious), Dream Brother, anything by Nick Hornby, Michael Chabon etc etc. The Dictionary and THE BIBLE (we all should read them both). I like to read about design and music. Band Biographies are fun and if you'd like to recommend any I am all ears!
Robert Nesta Marley.