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i love everybody! i can chat it up with just about anyone...but....i have a harder time chilling with people who are closed-minded, condiscending, and purposely ignorant. i specially like chilling with people who i can learn and grow from, the musicians, the artists, the poets, the dreamers, the storytellers....the people that carry the palabra of our ancestors....los que saben que el dinero no es algo que se puede comer....
i love all kinds...except country and christian/religious music...fuck country.
i am a movie freak, so here goes a partial list: City of God, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Un Chien Andalou, Bad Education, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, The Wounds, The Godfather, Menace II Society, Amores Perros, Santa Sangre, Lumumba, In the Time of the Butterflies, Lord of the Rings, Snatch, Battle of Algiers, Motorcycle Diaries, Sex and Lucia, Memento, Being John Malchoveich, Adaptation, Akira, Pi, Stand By Me, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Star Wars Movies, Fight Club, Natural Born Killers, Kill Bill, Run Lola Run, Dirty Pretty Things...
television is evil...yet i love to study it ....to see how it grasps the minds of many
borderlands-anzaldua, el aleph-borges, a manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, & social feminism-donna haraway, el popotl vuh, macho sluts-judith butler, occupied america-acuña, los libros de chilam balam, this bridge called my back-cherrie morraga & gloria anzaldua & norma alarcon, the art of war-sun tzu, methodology of the oppressed-chela sandoval, anything by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, hungry woman and all of cherrie moraga's works, discourse on colonialism-aime cesaire, anything by laura perez and norma alarcon specially: the 3rd woman & spider woman's grand daughters, derrida, a theory of semiotics, the history of sexuality-foucault, anything by antonio gramsci, nomadology of war, mexicana encounters-fregoso, el movimiento indigena y las cuestiones pendientes en latino america-abel quijano, contesting the white anglo-saxon patriotic and eurocentric menace-nelson maldonado, Subaltern Epistemologies, Ethnic Studies and the Redefinition of Global Capitalism: Transmodernity, Border Thinking and Global Coloniality-ramon grosfuguel, HUNTINGTON’S FEARS: “LATINIDAD†IN THE COLONIAL HORIZON OF THE MODERN/COLONIAL WORLD-walter mignolo, Running for Peace and Dignity: From Traditionally Radical Chicanos/as to Radically Traditional Xicanas/os-roberto hernandez, third world women and the politics of feminism-Spivak, The modern world system-wallerstein, remaking history-cornel west, hayden white, chicana lesbians; the girls our mothers warned us about-carla trujillo, emplumada, the nepantla journal, lakota woman-mary crow dog,bell hooks, passion-june jordan, audre lorde, the decolonial imaginary-emma perez, 3 negro classics-w.e.b. dubois, the wretched of the earth-frantz fanon, cien años de soledad-garcia marquez, pedagogy of the oppressed-freire, border culture:a process of negotiation towards utopia-guillermo gomez peña, blood in my eye-george jackson, racial formation in the united states-omi & winant, always running:la vida loca gang days in l.a.-luis rodriguez, from different shores-ronald takaki, autobiography of malcom x, visual and other pleasures-laura mulvey, teletheory:grammatology in the age of video-gregory ulmer, global television-brian wallis, television, technology and cultural formation-raymond williams, The Information Age: Economy, Society, Culture & the rise of the network society-manuel castells, the mayan factor-jose arguelles
all my relations.