LaetiÃ§ia - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Hi. My father named me LaetiÃ§ia; pronounced LEH'-tee-sseeya, and not luh-TEE-sha. Effort is all I would ask of you. *HINT: There is no "sha" sound in my name :)* I will generally answer to Lettuce.
My passion is dance, and sometimes, I fiddle with lights and call myself a designer. Sometimes, I teach -- because Lettuce loves the chilrens . When I'm lucky, people pay me to juggle your personalities or wrangle mustaches. I enjoy listening, moving, and daydreaming to music. Sometimes, I play my sax with Coltrane up real loud and pretend I'm keeping up. Writing brings me closer to peace. As does running. And bathing. Indeed, the surest way to my heart is by filling my black hole of a belly.
Sometimes I think too hard. Other times, my feet find themselves lodged in my mouth. On average, I'm an okay lady to talk to. As a general rule, I don't like strangers, stroking your ego or pilates one hundreds pilates. And mooshy bananas give me the wind.
Some things that make me truly happy:
1. hugging, holding, and general human contact
2. the beautifully distracting skies as viewed from the bottom of McCarren Pool
3. Jessica Emmanuel is my favorite person in the whole wide world :)
4. Lower East Side because those bamas know how to eat boiiiii! (par example: Dumpling Man , Viva Pizza , and Sugar Sweet Sunshine )
5. acting a damned fool when I'm certain no one is watching
6. My fly little online shop, BelleMichou , named for my mother and her incredible taste. You're welcome to browse through my collection of vintage apparel and accessories. I bet I can sell you your new favorite thing.
BelleMichou
www.bellemichou.etsy.com
7. Jump-'N-Funk, but mostly Rich Medina
8. Detoxification + Fasting. Please refer to my B(owel)log .
9. I deeply enjoy hummus.
*HINT: If you take me on a date to eat falafel, I will put you on my top friends... and then kiss you ;)*
10. Cycling in pumps

My Interests

balance
old knowledge, old things, old people
cooking + good food
maintaining good karma
kissy face
moving my bottom in a circular motion always
going places
self-teaching
sweating
green tea
(The Genius of) Ulysses Dove
sugary carbohydrates
*HINT: Give me candies & I will put you on my top friends :)*
quiet-wide-open spaces
good music
those who welcome the quirky tendencies of others
words + language
LOVE!
indigenous cultures
my irregular heartbeat
beautiful smiles + sunny days
humility + sincerity+ integrity
knitted things and pearls
Krik? Krak!
performance + movement + light...
yoga
Buddha
GOOD
good friends

I'd like to meet:

People who don't mind the quiet moments in conversation: people who think aloud sometimes: people who whole-heartedly enjoy moving and making noise, and saying something: who don't mind cracking a smile once in a while: people who like to stare and touch: people with patience, who can't stand by and do nothing. Artists. Dreamers. Givers. Fighters. Lovers. Movers. Shakers. Music Makers. You. And all yo peoples.

LETTUCEMOVE on AOL
lettuce_move on msn + skype
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My Friends
I like these folks in real life too.

The rest of 'em are this a way

Music:

... reminiscent of that thick, sweaty, funky mass pulsating, gyrating, bumping and grinding by the skillful hands of our music makers.

The kind of beautiful noise that takes me back to sun showers on my block and the boy next door and lazy afternoons on the back steps.

... jazz and blues and soul and rock n' roll and it gets in you and doesn't let go. And you have to submit, because there's no point in fighting the funk.

Always open to what you like. Please share the wealth.

Movies:

Sarafina
Basquiat
Quills
Dangerous Liasons
Requiem for a Dream
Pulp Fiction
Eternal Sunshine...
Momento
AfroPunk
Richard Pryor/Paul Mooney films
Malcolm X and most Spike Lee joints (including Girl 6... shut up)
The Wiz
Moonwalker
just about any 80s era dance flick
etcetera, etcetera...

Television:

Dance Sequence II from Lettuce_Move on Vimeo

Books:

Jacob H. Carruthers
Ntozake Shange
Toni Morrison
Zadie Smith
Robert Greene
J.D. Salinger
August Wilson
Kurt Vonnegut
Malcolm Gladwell
Ralph Ellison
Lorraine Hansberry
Hermann Hesse
Flannery O'Connor
Chinua Achebe
Paolo Coelho
Franz Kafka
and others...

Heroes:

Me.

My Blog

100 Facts about Laetiçia

Because it's been months since my last post and catch up posts aren't that much fun, I give you this list of 100 facts I bet you didn't know about me. You can all thank Melanism for inspiring it. Here...
Posted by Laetiçia on Tue, 06 May 2008 11:33:00 PST

Holiday Sale: 25% - 50% Off!

BelleMichouwww.bellemichou.etsy.com...
Posted by Laetiçia on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:31:00 PST

Agnis + Roco

Every few days I get this heaviness in my upper back and it wraps around over my shoulders to tighten the flat part of my chest, then it pulls up the two hard columns on the back of my neck, traipses ...
Posted by Laetiçia on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:18:00 PST

B(owel)log

I finally made a blospot. This one, to track my BMs once a month. Check out my b(owel)log here....
Posted by Laetiçia on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 11:24:00 PST

Meet Babycakes :)

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Posted by Laetiçia on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:35:00 PST

Winter Mantra

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Posted by Laetiçia on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:49:00 PST

An Idiot's Guide to Fresher Lettuce

Properly grieve my father's deathThis fall will mark eight years since his passing, and yet I haven't been able to rid myself of the depression I've felt all this time. I remember crying for a little ...
Posted by Laetiçia on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:29:00 PST

George Orwell said...

"In a time of universal deceit, to tell the truth is a revolutionary act."
Posted by Laetiçia on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:30:00 PST

iTunes Survey

Open iTunes, Winamp or Windows Media Player to answer the following. Go to your library. Answer, no matter how embarrassing it is!!(I used iTunes which is hooked into my iPod.)Total songs: 5,152Sort B...
Posted by Laetiçia on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:41:00 PST

T.M.I.

1. Is it better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all?you can never miss what you've never had.2. Would you prefer the lights on or off during sex?i prefer them off.3. Do you judge pe...
Posted by Laetiçia on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:22:00 PST