Bellydancing to hip-hop and zeroing out the misogynistic lyrics. Friendly, warm, creative, intellectual people who laugh a lot.Below are some interesting websites, I peruse. xoxwww.dotnewsmagazine.com/la5.htm (link 2 me),
www.spankycouture.com (Adorable rock and roll kids clothes my friend Erik sells! Please check them out... when you are done reading about me.) www.dailydoseofqueer.com, www.jenburke.com, www.jasmynecannick.com, a fellow writer at dot Newsmagazine, Jasmyne's website has much info + passion on our communities, www.missvera.com (Check this out, trust me, do it.),
vday.org (Eve Ensler's site re. Violence Against Women- much info by the lovely playwright...I'm just starting The Good Body), one.org (new campaign!),
gender.org (need to research this site more...please let me know what you think, and of other gender-oriented/catering sites you enjoy), http://www.transparentthemovie.com,
amnesty.org (just beginning research here, but very informative, much on Violence Against Women in Mexico and France; elsewhere, and other human rights work needed/being done, and ways to contribute in various ways; See "Make Some Noise")
www.babeland.com
scarleteen.com (safe sex information for teens and the rest of us, too)
Reading Pablo Neruda, as found randomly in emails from friends or loose leafed used books, or fan pages
I'd like to meet:
Passionate, motivated, vitality-filled, focused, conscious-minded people who share their heart with the world, even if scared.People who are masculine, feminine, tall, dark & brooding. Those who are Positive, Optimistic, Business-minded, funky, funny, inventive, entrepreneurial, Innovative and can give great foot massages.
adopt your own virtual pet!http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l51/Darrah_02/2009-28.
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Music:
Pop, rock, the sound of wind, silence baited, hearts beating, sex.
Movies:
So many, yet not enough:Die, Mommie Die!
Swingers
The Baxter
Pulp Fiction,
Antonia's Line,
The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie revee des anges),
All About My Mother,
Y Tu Mama, Tambien,
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (has memorable moments and the Sex and the City theme song!),
Midaq Alley (early Salma Hayek, very good, intense picture, "sad" at times, reflective),
Secretary (!),
Boys Don't Cry,
Thirteen,
Frida,
Moulin Rouge,
Sweet Charity,
How To Make an American Quilt, with the inimitable Winona Ryder - she has such a great speaking voice, no?
One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest (and many other Jack Nicholson films),
Manic (with Don Cheadle, et al.),
Shirley Maclaine...
And I also quite like the (B+W and color) short film and music video mediums.
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Julianne Moore, Susan Sarandon, Drew Barrymore, Nia Long, Regina King, Gabrielle Union, Sanaa Lathan
Jon Favreau
Heather Graham
David Spade
Kathy Bates
Kristy Swanson
Hilary Swank
Chloe Sevigny
Evan Rachel WoodWant to see: Searching For Debra Winger
Television:
Sex and the City
(Need I say more?)
I want to own the DVD collection of The L Word just to catch up! And to own it. I do like "Jenny" no matter what anyone says. Her relationship with Max - now that's debatable...
Books:
My Dangerous Desires, A Restricted Country, Good In Bed, She's Come Undone, some Tom Robbins (Cowgirls movie), Sandra Cisneros's poetry and "House on Mango Street," anything Charles Bukowski...
Dorothy Allison's, _Two or Three Things I Know for Sure_,
Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear, the Dictionary and Thesaurus, Pablo Neruda, Rilke, Elena Georgiou, many I haven't met yet. Want to read Lipstick Jungle, Happy Hooker, and once again, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank - (I just found out the movie is coming out soon!) and so many others. Books make gifts.
Just discovered: DIVA Magazine!
Heroes:
You. her, hym, them, pacifistic social groups, soloists, trios, anti-hero rich socialites.
Filmmakers, Singers, drummers, Rebels,
Writers, Painters.
Drew Barrymore, Reese Witherspoon, Joan Nestle, Amber Hollibaugh, Leslea Newman, Tori Amos; too numerous brave souls to mention... New Yorkers, Angelenos, Georgians, Detroitians, Seattlites, bi-coasters, those who paint the margins florescent pink, those who dare to live Left of center and raise their voices into the mainland. Bisexuals, queers, transfolks, differently-abled, creatives, those unafraid to proclaim their riches, or that they want. Tri-toned hair. Bald butches. Eva Sweeney. dan and anna.
