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sandra

curiouser and curiouser

About Me



~~~Everything interesting, creative or out of the ordinary catches my attention (especially the Dionysian aspect of life). I like to drive fast, particularly in sports cars. I enjoy days at the beach, space on the dancefloor to really get down, fantastic cinematography, graffiti art, form AND function, great architecture, thrift store shopping, family BBQs and the method of torturing souls known as karaoke.

My Interests

exploring, dancing, riding my bike, travel, writing, music, film, art, yoga in the park on a sunny day, dancing, making jewelry, learning new things, culinary experimentation, midcentury modern design, hiking, visiting museums, roller skating, great conversations, pop culture, KPFK/social consciousness n' revolution...did I mention dancing?

I'd like to meet:

~~~Humanists, people who love to dance in sneakers & unconventional types- quirky or eccentric people, walking contradictions...pursuers and pushers of realism, people who are genuine, and people who love their life, even with all its ups and downs.

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Music:

Copy n paste this link to check out my LAUNCHcast radio station:

http://music.yahoo.com/lc/?rt=0&rp1=0&rp2=1368678101

House (esp progressive)/ trip hop/ electronica/ reggae, fat n' groovy beats, Built to Spill, Otis Redding, Camera Obscura, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Basement Jaxx, Groove Armada, Massive Attack, Elliot Smith, Manu Chao, D'Angelo, Bloc Party, Fiona Apple, Damien Rice, John Mayer, Outkast, Le Tigre, Discount, Beatles, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Richard Ashcroft, Peggy Lee, The Killers, Bjork, Prince, Morcheeba, early Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, Air, Elton John, DJ Cheb I Sabbah, Roots, Beastie Boys, N.E.R.D., Cafe Tacuba, Kinky, Nortec Collective, The Cure, Stereolab, Green Day, Beck, Flaming Lips, Oasis, Velvet Underground, Doors, Mates of State, plus most of the music on www.kcrw.com

Movies:

I haven't seen a lot of movies recently, but Children of Men was incredible...go see it! Girl W/A Pearl Earring, Lost In Translation, Almost Famous, Fantasia (original), Spirited Away, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Billy Elliot, Virgin Suicides, Cinema Paradiso, American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Ghost World, Goodfellas, Pride and Prejudice, The Lion in Winter, City of God, Nicotina, The Incredibles, Kill Bill Vols. I n II, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Casino, School of Rock, Talk to Her (any Almodovar), Amores Perros, Go, Royal Tenenbaums, High Fidelity, Friday and I *heart* Huckabees

Television:

Entourage and Flight of the Conchords are brilliant; props to HBO. Project Runway rocks. This American Life is fun (though I love the radio show more). Now that I don't have cable with DVR, I miss the Suze Orman show. My previous roommate converted me into a Scrubs and The Office fan. My cousin is hooked on 24, so I'll watch that when we hang out.

Books:

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Baudelaire's Paris Spleen, Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, 1984 by George Orwell, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway and the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Emily Dickinson & Hafiz. From my childhood I remember liking Where the Red Fern Grows, Griffin & Sabine (An Extraordinary Correspondence), Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Ramona Quimby series (Superfudge, too).

Heroes:

Jimmy Carter, Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, single parents who raise good kids

The Ticket Assassin - he helped me beat 2 moving violations!

My Blog

From the origins of religion to modern-day politics

This film had me really thinking after I watched it. Maybe some of you don't like being forced to think about things too much...then this film is DEFINITELY for you.It describes in detail (with suppo...
Posted by sandra on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:05:00 PST

Netzahualcoyotl, el rey poeta

These poems were written by Nezahualcoyotl, the poet king (of Texcoco) (1402 - 1472).They speak to how fleeting is life.I read the first one at my Aunt Patty's and also my dad's funeral. I'm going to...
Posted by sandra on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:42:00 PST

Could L.A. ever replicate the bike culture of Copenhagen? Ill settle for copying NY...

Cycling gains ground in NYCBy KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press WriterSun Oct 7, 1:31 PM ETNew York City, with its convoys of cabs, miles of subway track, fleets of fume-belching trucks and hordes of h...
Posted by sandra on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:44:00 PST

Jimmy Carter confronts Sudan officials

First Habitat for Humanity, now this.  Could this man be any more heroic??    By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer 50 minutes ago Former President Jimmy Carter confront...
Posted by sandra on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 06:37:00 PST

:) Cheney, Briefly Assuming Bushs Duties, Says He Enjoyed the Downtime

Andy Borowitz Sat Jul 28, 3:00 AM ET Vice President Dick Cheney, having briefly assumed President Bush's duties while the president underwent a routine colon procedure on Saturday, told reporters...
Posted by sandra on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 04:36:00 PST

Where did the word robot come from?

Karel Capek, a Czech writer coined the term "robot", or rather made it popular. "He introduced and made popular the frequently used international word robot, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (R...
Posted by sandra on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:51:00 PST

An argument against consumerism

Affluenza: Rampant consumerism erodes us By Paul Majendie Beware the Affluenza Virus. An epidemic of mindless consumerism is sweeping the world with the compulsive pursuit of money and possessions ma...
Posted by sandra on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST

The Joy of Not Shopping

This year I managed to enjoy Christmas in large part because I made gifts for my friends rather than visit malls and department stores. This group sounds like they've got the right idea year-round... ...
Posted by sandra on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:32:00 PST

I heard it here first...

Listening to a popular Los Angeles Spanish-language radio station, I heard the word YouTube be used as a verb...it was in reference to this story they were telling: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/...
Posted by sandra on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:01:00 PST

(Yet Another) Reason to push for US to sign Kyoto Treaty

Diseases appear on rise with temperature --> -->--> -->--> --> By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent A warmer world already seems to be producing a sicker world, health experts reported Tues...
Posted by sandra on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:38:00 PST