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Paloma Negra

She Purrs Like a Wounded Mongoose!

About Me

Sour skittles, tomatos, avocados, don't eat meat, ranch, nail biting, reading, i think too much, i dig. I think that i was a womyn in my past life. For the first few years of my life i did not want to believe in the Supreme. I love beans. i love history. I am a shit-talker extraordinaire. I am very social. I have a small circle of intimate friends. I have a lot of love. I make change. I am change. I like to have a lot of change in my cars ash tray. i hate the smell of smoke. I like the smell of wet concrete. overall, i am unique.Not me

My Interests

politricks, history, hip hop, Tijuana, Susie, love, life, billiards, Schooner's, jukeboxes, traveling, jackets, newcastle, bass, san miguel, pacificos, books, shoplifting, my mom and dad, my homies... shoes, dreams, reading people, education, goals of conquest... the usual

I'd like to meet:

Most of the people that I would like to meet have moved on... but here they go: Ricardo Flores Magon, Emiliano Zapata, Zeta Acosta, Malcolm X, Ernesto Guevara, Frantz Fanon, Shannyn Sossamon, Michael Jordan, Ana L. Castillo, Rigoberta Menchu, Betty Shabazz, Bell Hooks, Angela Davis, Frida, Khadija (i think thats how u spell it, but its one of the first wives of the Prophet Muhammad) Johnny Depp, Leanord Peltier, Assata Shakur, Tupac Amaru II, Tupac Shakur, Dead Prez, Immortal Technique, Common, Talib Kweli, Los Tigres Del Norte, adelita, the womyn of Juarez, Vicente Fernandez, Cesar Chavez, Scarlet Johanssen, Michael Rappaport, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Huey P., Mumia-Abu Jamal, Dwyane Wade etc.I know some of these seem random... but that's who i am.i'd also like to meet Yeshua Ben Yusef and the Prophet Muhammad and Abu-Bakr, Moses, and Abraham and any prophet who has had a positive impact on the world...

Music:

Tupac, Bob Marley, Los Lobos, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli, Nina Simone, Dead Prez, The Smiths/Morrisey (unfortunately), Vicente Fernandez, Juan Gabriel, Ramon Ayala, Los Tigres, Tori Amos, the cure, NWA, Selena, 311, Binary Star, Sage Francis, jean grae, jill scott, sade, alicia keyes, dizzy galespie, the bird charlie parker, ray charles, bach, Non Phixion, Lynard Skynard, Pink Floyd, Doris Day, lila downs, wu tang, Led Zepp, Mano Negra, Ozomatli, Manu Chao, Brother Ali, Nortec, Dj Shadow, NoFX, Bad Religon, Julieta Venegas, Nirvana, Saul Williams, Rage, Molotov, Quinto Sol, Cash, Non Prophets, Billie Holiday, the Doors, dilated peoples, Indy Hip Hop that is relevant to the viability of the culture, and pretty much anything that has something interesting to say or sounds innovative like my homie shammy dee who yall listenin too... transcribed thoughts is the shit... DONT SLEEP!

Movies:

The Friday Trilogy, Voces Inocentes, Brother Minister, Syriana, Bamboozled, Letter to the President, The Rules of Attraction, Menace II Society, Hotel Rwanda, City of God, Se7en, Grease, Boyz N the Hood, Real Women Have Curves, The Believer, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, Higher Learning, Zoolander, Dodgeball, Anchorman, Meet the Parents, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Motorcycle Diaries, American Me, Rabbit Proof Fence. i remembered more... Shaun of the Dead, Go, American history X, American Beauty, Kids, Dogtown and the ZBoys, Style Wars, Leprechaun 1,2,3, and the first one where he goes to the hood because they r ridiculous. Rocky 1-5. Full Metal Jacket, and Cujo, Napolean Dynamite, Ghost World, Monster, Forrest Gump, Radio Flyer, 3 Strikes (yeah, im ghetto), When the Mountains Tremble, The Big One, Rebound, The Revolution will not be televised, El Fuego y La Palabra

Television:

The Simpsons because I think that people who do not like it or do not get it are not intelligent enough to understand true wit. Three's Company b/c it is one of the few shows i watched in my childhood that I remember truly being funny. Frontline because I am a nerd... America's Next Top Model (Is there any doubt why?) Family Guy because that shit is hilfuckenlarious! American Dad b/c i love comedy and politics (pretty much the same thing) and that show combines them both. and The Office starring Steve Carell (the 40 yr old virgin and brick the weather guy from anchorman)... that show is dry humor at its finest...

Books:

The Revolt of the Cockroach People, The Secret of Nimh, Tierra y Libertad (a play by Ricardo Flores Magon), What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, Revolutionary Suicide, Wall Bangin', The Autobiography of Malcolm X, First World Ha Ha Ha!, The Pearl, Soul on Ice, Malign Neglect, Shadows of Tender Fury, Zapata's Disciples, Portnoy's Complaint (hilarious), Anarchy: From Theory to Practice (Great book), No More Prisons, Live From Death Row, Prison Writings, Massacre of the Dreamers, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Revolution by the Book etc. Chomsky, Parenti, Palast, Ali, Said etc.I could probably go on forever. Life is a journey and i think that books r important on any and all trips.

Heroes:

My mom, ricardo flores magon, talib kweli, imm tech, amir abdel malik, emiliano zapata, anyone who perseveres, malcolm x, Zeta Acosta, my dad... Freedom Fighters, womyn and men who fight the patriarchy actively through everyday actions...people who have survived sexual assault, abuse, or rape... those are definitely inspiring people.

My Blog

I'll Take IT to Go!

Yeah, I'd like to order my revolution to go... can u supersize it? Great! I wanna share my happy movement meal with all the kiddies all the adults yes, and i'll take a side of freedom with that, plea...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:29:00 PST

Big Book of Racism

Some homies of mine recommended this book by Ego Trip called the Big Book of Racism. the shit is hilarious and very informative for folks who r not in the know. i would recommend this shit to neone. i...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 07:30:00 PST

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Don't you just wanna slap the shit out of reality?I mean grab that muthafucka and kick the fuck out if it 4 all it ain't worth...Put all the rage n2 one fist thrust 4 the genocide4 the rape, 4 the rac...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Sun, 14 May 2006 10:28:00 PST

May Day

A sea of white shirts on brown skinflooding the streets of Los Angelespouring on to the streetts of the Bay and Chicagoare the ancestors of ancient civilizations civil resistance to the attacks of rac...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Mon, 08 May 2006 02:13:00 PST

... Freedom

... A great getting-up morning when everything in creation findsits voice and we dance to the music, music alive in our hands and feet and minds, music teaching us to overcome enemies within and ousid...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:59:00 PST

Coast to Coast, L.A. to Chicago Day 1

Coast to Coast, LA to Chicago. Catch the Blue "L" 2 Cicero past the southside. See some kid w/ beads in his braids. Feel the cold of the Midwest wind. Walk side by side to my yang. Eat @ La Chiquita a...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 11:54:00 PST

Train of thought

We in the midst of global calamity/ respondin through humanity with self defense backin me and we i aint sittin waitin for cataclysmic catasprophe to cause my fatality and alter my reality keep my men...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:43:00 PST

1982 Original

1982, two years away from the prophetic year prophesized by Mr. Orwell. Big brother, big brother watchin my development in anticipation of a new seed to bud in an earth that was fertile with dirt and ...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:45:00 PST

The Book of Genesis According to San Miguelito

Before the beginning God created God In the beginning God created the ghettos & slums and God saw this was good. So God said, "Let there be more ghettos & slums" and there were more ghettos...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Mon, 03 Oct 2005 11:23:00 PST

Circulo

The palpitation of the drum that keeps me movin skips a beat at the though of us... Blessed is the story of our existence as a perfectly balanced unit Spring like rythms play in my mind when you enter...
Posted by Paloma Negra on Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:48:00 PST