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Spice of Life

Senorita Cosita

About Me



I extend life, expand consciousness, and most importantly, bestow upon others the ability to fold space, and therefore, time.I am the most precious substance in the universe.Contrary to popular belief, I cannot be controlled, only integrated into one's unconscious mind. Once I am there, you will no longer perceive me as Other, though you will sense a dramatic shift in your awareness as I merge with your being... Intermittently, when serving humankind in this manner has become tiresome, I return to my alter ego: A product design engineer who does not know how I ended up in this position. It's like I woke up from fugue state after graduating and suddenly there I was. I am often told that I "don't fit the profile," whatever that means. I hope it means that I don't seem like a nerd, though I secretly am, and relish my dual existence. However, they are right: I am not your father's Engineer.

My Interests

No, I am not a big Dune fan. I just feel that I embody the characteristics of the Spice.dancing, yoga, belly-laughing, sparkles, more dancing, reading voraciously, languages, neuropsychology, any form of "ill behavior," snuggling with my kitties, shaking/grooving and generally parading my Badonkadonk, "cult" film, the art of perfumery, fashion, singing (although my considerable talent is mostly relegated to occasional karaoke and my car), red wine, gentle spankings, the concept of perception & altering it, the Netherlands, languages (Dutch, Spanish, French), San-X & other Japanese pop culture, vacuuming, kickin it, posting to TRIBE.NET where there's more discussion space :) :)

I'd like to meet:

Anyone else who likes to flow. Alan Watts. George Carlin. Margaret Cho. (really any of my "heroes" below...)My future self and my childhood self, both at once.

Music:



Underground (and some above-ground) hip-hop, house (Detroit/Chicago style booty shakin' tech house, & the funkier SF beats), Detroit techno, funk & soul, downbeats, some '80's. Faves: J-Live, Lyrics Born, Blackalicious, Outkast, Aceyalone, De la Soul, the Roots, Missy Elliot, Dilated Peoples, Angie Stone, Jurassic 5, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, DJ Krush, John Acquaviva, Massive Attack, Gene Farris, Marques Wyatt, Derrick May, (DJ) Traxx, Richie Hawtin (Plastikman), Doc Martin, Jazzanova, Kruder & Dorfmeister, everything on the Pork label, Groove Armada, Thievery Corporation, LTJ Bukem, DJ DB, ABBA, Talking Heads, Ella Fitzgerald, Eartha Kitt, Cibo Matto, Peter Gabriel, Shirley Bassey, Beatles...I could go on, but I won't...

Movies:

Dr. Strangelove, Kids in the Hall's Brain Candy, Waiting for Guffman, Antonia's Line, Happiness, Magnolia, Bowling for Columbine, Wonderland (documentary aboutt Levittown NY), Donnie Darko, This is Spinal Tap, The Lover, Adaptation, SLAM!, Being John Malkovich, Falling Down, Lost in Translation, Hedwig, The Player, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Vernon FL, Network, Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios, All About Eve, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Kentucky Fried Movie

Television:

Six Feet Under, Brothers and Sisters, The Daily Show, The Tudors, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the L Word

Books:

Authors: Tom Robbins, Christopher Moore, Al Franken, Douglas Coupland, David Sedaris, Jon; Books: The Corrections (J. Franken), the Unfolding of Language (Deutscher), Descartes' Error (Damasio), the Alphabet Versus the Goddess (Schlain), the House of the Spirits (I. Allende), Media Virus, Love in the Time of Cholera (Garcia-Marquez), People's History of the United States (Zinn), How the Mind Works (Pinker), Jitterbug Perfume (Robbins), Girlfriend in a Coma (Coupland) Periodicals that I groove on: *BUST*, Bitch, Harper's (the literary one), Mother Jones, The Onion!, The Nation

Heroes:

Not in any particular order: Alan Watts, my mother, Joseph Campbell, Andrew Weil, Candace Pert, Carl Jung, Jon Stewart, Al Franken, Michael Moore, Howard Zinn, George Carlin, Margaret Cho, FDR, Noam Chomsky, Hafiz, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Sanger, Isaiah Berlin, Paul Wellstone, Johnny Depp

My Blog

Los Nacimientos (Births) by Pablo Neruda

Los Nacimientos (Births) We will never remember dying. We are so patientabout being,noting downthe numbers, the days,the years and the months,the hair, the mouths we kissed,but that moment of dying:we...
Posted by Spice of Life on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:32:00 PST

Overdose of awesome from David Hasselhoff... (you must watch this video)

Hasselhoff rocks your socks off (click for link)
Posted by Spice of Life on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:38:00 PST