GO BRUINS! I love watching UCLA Basketball and Football
Having fun with good friends...from back in the dayMy first trip to NYC. Highlights were definitely seeing the night skyline on my first ferry ride, watching Spring Awakening the night before Tony nominations and meeting the cast, and barely getting into RENT, Wicked, Conan and Les Miz. I took a big bite out of the Big Apple in just one week!
many famous people only to know that they are real like me. hypothetical people: the first Filipino-American, female, LGBTQ and/or black president, my ancestors before Spanish colonialism and American imperialism, & my future descendants. past friends: from Vallejo, Walnut Creek, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles. people I've lost touch with. eventually the one and only God.
Mainly Hip-Hop, R&B/Soul, in the past: Pop, (yes I was an Nsync fan) & other alternative music like Weezer, Third Eye Blind, Green Day, Beatles, Here I'd like to list artists that I've seen live in the best chronological order that my memory can recall: Montell Jordan, BoyzIIMen, Keith Sweat, SWV, 112, Bone Thugz & Harmony, LL Cool J, Jocelyn Enriquez, One Voice, Kai, Cypress Hill, Beat Junkies, Visionaries, Dilated Peoples, Cut Chemist, Donald Glaude, QBert & DStyles, Derrick Carter, Common, Blackalicious, Jurassic5, DJ Dan, Third Eye Blind, Aquabats, Nsync, Beach Boys, Xzibit, Snoop Dogg, Westside Connection;American Music Award Show in 2003: Tim McGraw, Shania Twain, the Osbourne family, Mariah Carey, Missy Elliot, Christina Aguilera, i know there's more but i got to see lots of celebs there; JayZ, Chris Eneef, Trife Deisel, Hoobastank, E-40, San Quinn, Goapele, Gerald Levert, MAZE feat. Frankie Beverly, Sharon Cuneta, Ogie Alcasid, Zion I, Crown City Rockers, Guru, MC Supernatural, Dead Prez, QBert, DJ Kool, Method Man, Redman, Ghostface Killah, RZA, Busta Rhymes, Tone Toni Tony, Raheem DeVaughn, Will Downing, New Edition, Hot Hot Heat, Weezer, Foo Fighters, K'naan, Jean Grae, Capa Dona, Talib Kweli, Pharoahe Monch, Mos Def, Keisha Cole, Fantasia, Kanye West, ill-literacy, Earthtones, Common (for the 2nd time), Supreeme, Murs, Immortal Technique, Living Legends, De La Soul, Wu Tang Clan, Procussions, Rhymefest, Tribe Called Quest, Bel Biv Devoe, EnVogue, Raphael Saadiq, Aloe Blacc and hopefully many more to come! (sorry if I misspelled anyone's name) I'll be counting the days until Rock The Bells again!
Pretty much Everything! a few favorites: Paris Je T'aime, Kill Bill 1 & 2, Lucky Number Slevin, Garden State, Kung Fu Hustle, Chicago, There's Something About Mary, 50 First Dates, Meet Joe Black, Seven, lately I find myself drawn to Zhang Zi Yi movies: House of Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Memoirs of a Geisha, Check out the MySpace movie produced by David Lehre and the Oakland A's mascot video below:
Currently I watch very little TV compared to how much I used to watch, I like mainly makeover shows and smart comedies. I only know the channels of TLC, the Comedy Channel, Cartoon Network and the Food Network by heart. Here's a partial list: Heroes, Desperate Housewives, Apprentice, The Office, My Name is Earl, ER, Trading Spaces, Inuyasha, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Late Nite with Conan O'Brien, Def Poetry Jam, The Biggest Loser, Extreme Makeover, What Not To Wear, reruns of Sex and the City and Seinfeld. I often refer to TV episodes when something happens to me and it reminds me of a TV show's plot line: "just like that episode of Seinfeld when..."
I'm trying to read the Bible more, I own mostly Cookbooks, Social Justice/Human Rights, self-help like Suze Orman for the Young, Broke, and Fabulous, best children's book ever:Hope for the ButterfliesI am currently reading "Reefer Madness: sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market" by Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation." The following is an excerpt from "Reefer Madness" that I loved: Driving back to my motel that night, I thought about the people of Orange County, one of the richest counties in the nation - big on family values, yet bankrupt from financial speculation, unwilling to raise taxes for their own children's education, unwilling to pay off their debts, whining about the injustice of it, and blaming all their problems on illegal immigrants. And I thought about Francisco, their bogeyman, their scapegoat, working ten hours a day at one of the hardest jobs imaginable, and sleeping on the ground every night, for months, so that he could save money and send it home to his parents. We have been told for years to bow down before "the market." We have placed our faith in the laws of supply and demand. What has been forgotten, or ignored, is that the market rewards only efficiency. Every other human value gets in its way. The market will drive wages down like water, until they reach the lowest possible level. Tody that level is being set not in Washington or New York or Sacramento but in the fields of Baja California and the mountain villages of Oaxaca. That level is about five dollars a day. No deity that men have ever worshiped is more ruthless and more hollow than the free market unchecked; there is no reason why shantytowns should not appear on the outskirts of every American city. All those who now consider themselves devotees of the market should take a good look at what is happening in California. Left to its own devices, the free market always seeks a work force that is hungry, desperate, and cheap - a work force that is anything but free.
JESUS, My MOM, My Sister Kristine, Friends that have taught me how to deal with the bad and how to celebrate the good. All of those who fight for social/economic/political justice. Anyone who has endured poverty &/or abuse of any kind in their lifetime.