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piranha

cheeseandcandies

About Me

because i never seem to learn.For all those who don't speak Spanish, the translation goes like this: "do you know what I would do if I had $1 million?" - "I would spend half of it in candies and half in ice cream" - "girl, that is SO stupid" - "geez, then I would spend it all in candies"

My Interests

cheese and candies... of course, hanging out with friends, punk and indie shows, putting on shows, patios in chicago, madrid & amsterdam, homes that turn out to be hotels, vinyl and silkscreened art, snowboarding, falling from a surf board, real viet, thai and chinese food, doing something everyday and not being able to save any money at all...

Music:

Moss Icon, Amebix, Martyrdöd, Unbroken, Frail, Chokehold, The Swarm, Ottawa, The Pixies, His Hero is Gone, Indian Summer, Native Nod, Husker Du, Broken Social Scene, Hood, Merel, Cursive, Pg99, City of Caterpillar, Les Savy Fav, Emperor, Interpol, too many to list...

Movies:

Amateur, Dune, Gone with the Wind, a la verticale de l'ete, Dolls, The Road Home, Seom, Requiem for a Dream, Trust, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Los Amantes del Circulo Polar, Fucking Amal, The Sound of Music, Sissi, Night on Earth

Television:

90210, V, Melrose Place, the OC (specially when Marisa dies), Damages, Nip/Tuck, Dirty Sexy Money.

Books:

Cuentos (complete collection) by Julio Cortazar, Cat's Craddle by Kurt Vonnegut, Del Amor y Otros Demonios by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Seda by Alessandro Baricco, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, The Death of Ivan Ilich and other short stories by Tolstoi

Heroes:

my father