..Writing, dancing, international music, local artists and musicians, spoken word, oral history, hip-hop, passion, art & creativity, zines, vibrant colors, spending hours on end clipping up old magazines for collage creations (magazine donations always needed. For drop-off contact me. All magazines types appreciated, but those with vibrant colors, ornate patterns, nudity (not pornography), and generally rare images, are particularly desired), politics (albeit ambivalent), reading, dreaming and dream analysis, a cold Newcastle on a hot summer day or after a long hard day at work, coffee, crosswords and trivia (though I'm not very good at either), garage sales, dumpster diving, stimulating conversation (but not intellectual masturbation), shootin' pool, games in general, the water, family & friends, strong women & men, sitting on my front porch, being a gypsy, laughter, language, nature, food (fair & organic), cooking (for more than just myself), education & learning, children, informed citizens, progressive political action, community, coalition-building, Democracy Now, annual May Day parade and celebration, FIRING BUSH! Revolution, sigue, sigue! My Little Sister's Beautiful Brown Eyes
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I'd like to meet:
People who aren't afraid to live. Movers and shakers. People who aren't afraid to live. People living the change they wish to see in the world (Ghandi). Other organizers, activists, revolutionaries. Johnny Depp, Benjamin Bratt, or Wilmer Valderama (sp?)... I wouldn't mind meeting them either. ).
Music:
Tracy Chapman, Zap Mama, Bebe, Lila Downs, Tori Amos, Dezarie, Mecano, Beck, Cat Power, Mala Rodrquez, Virginia Rodrigues, Chavela Vargas, Les Nubians, Cesaria Evora, Susanna Baca, Stevie Wonder, Si Se, MIA, Manu Chao, Jarabe de Palo, Joaquin Sabina, Ozomatli, Portishead, Nina Simone, The Temptations, Sade, Dolly Parton, The Roots, India Arie, Missy Elliot, Mystic, Mary J. Blige, Boyz II Men, En Vogue, Salt N Pepa, Leonard Cohen, Ben Harper, Willy Nelson, J. Cash, The Cure, Esthero, Cindi Lauper, old school Micheal Jackson, Tina Turner, Nirvana, NIN, Guns n Roses… anything that moves me!!! Why make me chose favorites...
Movies:
For starters... Amoresperros, Silence of the Lambs, Boys Don’t Cry, Girl Fight, anything Almodovar, Maria Full of Grace, Real Women Have Curves, Raising Victor Varga, Lost in Translation, Spellbound, Whale Rider, Do the Right Thing, Breakfast Club, Revenge of the Nerds, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Dirty Dancing, Mad Hot Ballroom, Bowling for Columbine, My Life Without Me, Requiem for a Dream, documentaries, thriller, suspense, and horror movies, and independent films...
Television:
Globe Trekker, Law & Order, Will & Grace, Conan O'Brian, Sex in the City, The Cosby Show, Roseanne, My So Called Life, The Wonder Years, The Simpsons, Reality t.v. is my greatest weakness (aside from HGTV)... A quilty pleasure indeed), my fav is America's Next Top Model (everybody loves to hate Tyra, right.
Books:
I'm very thirsty! The Red Tent, Interpreter of Maladies, In the Time of Butterflies, Never Again A World Without Us, A Lesson Before Dying, A Gathering of Old Men, Blindness, The Alchemist, Why We Can’t Wait, Living Downstream, Veronika Decides To Die, The Secret Life of Bees, A People’s History, White Oleander, Locas, A Million Little Pieces, & right now Janice Fine's- Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of a Dream... Books, books, books, I love em, give me knowledge!!!
Heroes:
I try not to idolize people, but a few that should be noted are… My family- first and foremost, my mama, my grandmama, grandpa, god mom, sister and brother. My friends (in no particular order)- Veronica Mendez, Kelly Harrington, Jamie ‘Jackson,’ Tiffany Enriquez, Suzanne Swadner, Sonia Gibbs, Veronica Cranston, my baby Abraham Manzano… The faces of tomorrow- my cousin Eleanor, Jamie’s lil’ D, Tiffany and Abraham’s Emiliano, Sophia’s Charlie & Georgia, Heather’s Joaquin, Sarah and Jake’s Jaden, Sarah’s & Rico's Iza, and many, many more. And, of course, the not so ordinary, truly extraordinary- Teresa Ortiz, Rosita Balch, Silvia Sanchez, Monte Bute, Carol Hogard, Oscar Cerda-Gomez… thank you! And all the everyday revolutionaries, waging peace and struggling for justice in the world!
