Azulfrida unveils her painting at Latin Grammys press conference in L.A. at House of Blues 09-10-08.
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The W.A.T. Troupe of Poets in H-Town (minus some folks)
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I want to be Cat Woman when I grow up.
Sometimes you just feel like you wanna kick butt!
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I am passionate about creativity and positive influence among the human race....inner peace. And on that note, lets start a Cultural Arts Revolution!!!!!!
Where is the category for VISUAL ARTS here on MySpace?
Visual art is breathtaking, innovative and full of energy. The fact that art can cause a stir in people (whether love or hate), promoting intense reactions, gives me a natural high. It is through art that people can become aware of social and political issues ... perhaps causing compassion. I appreciate all forms of visual art and there's so many but I'll list a few of my favorite artists: Gustav Klimt (The Kiss is one of my favorites), Monet, Manet, Cezzane, Salvador Dali, El Greco, Picasso, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bosch, Vermeer, Velasquez, Botticelli, Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti, local artists like Lizbeth Ortiz, Julie Zarate, Amanda de Rosario, and Chuy Benitez, photography by Luis A. deSantos, Tom Burckhardt's cardboard installation "Full Stop" at DiverseWorks was incredible and very detailed, "The Inversion" installation by Art League on Montrose was an eye catcher, Thorton Dial's installations made from scrap materials (did you know that this awesome artist started in his 60's and continued through his 80's?), Xul Solar, and so many others ….this is a working list. I've learned to appreciate conceptual art and installations more this year, as well.
I'd like to meet:
Spoken word artists/poets/writers, musicians, visual artists, anyone in the cultural arts world, progressive revolutionaries like those Chicano students of East L.A. in 1968. See the movie Walkout on HBO http://www.hbo.com/films/walkout/
Actual press pic of the walkouts. READING. WRITING. REVOLUTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!
I would like to break bread with Dr. Maya Angelou.
I've had the honor of meeting and knowing local Houston, TX activist Macario Ramirez
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Thanks for the pics, J-Man!
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If you stand for nothing, you fall for everything!
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Music:
I secretly want to be a rockstar. :)
My personal preference in music is so broad, it's impossible to list here.
Movies:
Sweeney Todd:
Recently viewed and current fav film. Love, love, love Tim Burton movies!
Big movie buff....too many to list (but I'll try in no particular order): The Lives of Others (See, compassion can exist), Munich, Departed, Stranger Than Fiction, all 3 Shreks, Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino RULES), 25th Hour (Edward Norton, I must say, is an excellent character actor), Gia (Angelina Jolie is the GODDESS), all 3 of LOTR, Harry Potter movies, When Harry Met Sally, You've Got Mail, Scarface (Al Pacino is GOD), Godfather (all sagas), Kill Bill Vol. I, Gone With The Wind (yes, that's right), Closer, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Gladiator, Amelie, Steel Magnolias, Heat (Robert DeNiro is another GOD so this movie is a double whammy), Fight Club, Pirates of the Caribbean, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil, Amores Perros, Like Water for Chocolate, Live Flesh, Die Hard, Alien, Fight Club, Cold Mountain, Almodovar films, Spike Lee movies, Reservoir Dogs, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Deer Hunter, Frida, The Interpreter, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Doctor Zhivago, Out of Africa (No one is a better character actress than Meryl Streep), On The Waterfront (Marlon Brando...need I say more?), Casablanca, The Pianist, Braveheart (A little disappointed in Mel's religious kick), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cinema Paradiso, Born Into Brothels (This movie makes me want to save the children in this world), A Walk In The Clouds, Sleepers, Taxi Driver, Alfred Hitchcock movies (he was the bomb), Pinero, Memoirs of a Geisha, Three Burials of Melquiades (listen to our interview with Julio Cesar Cedillo on 2-21-06), Salt of the Earth (1954)...and the list goes on.....love everything about movies from the production, screenwriting, directing to the acting. Movie making as an art fascinates me. (Yes, I'm the one that watches all of the special features section on the dvd!)
Netflix RAWKS!!!!!!!!!
Television:
TV kills brain cells. READ/WRITE/CREATE INSTEAD. I broke my 5-year streak of not watching TV as soon as I relocated to Chicago (damnit to Hades). In Houston I had so much time to volunteer and have a social life because I didn't watch TV. Now, I'm hooked on just about everything except reality shows. I LOVE "The Office", "Pushing Daisies", "Chuck", "Private Practice" and "Two and A Half Men". I miss Seinfeld and SATC.
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Books:
Book Nerd
Currently reading:
"Women Who Run With the Wolves" by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D. How have I not come across this book before???? You're right Alicia. ALL WOMEN SHOULD READ THIS BOOK!
Some of Octavio Paz's work
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
Aristotle's "On Man In The Universe"
Books about Buddhism and meditation
I promise that I DO finish books!
First book I read in Chicago about Chicago was "Devil In The White City". Now I'm obsessed with Chicago's World's Fair!
Just finished reading "Edge of Awareness: 25 Contemporary Essays" by Richard Peck (Thanks Alicia for loaning me the book. I must get my own copy!) I'm going to have to blog on my favorite essays because this book really struck a cord. The essay "What I Believe" written by E.M. Forster is so apropos for this era .... interesting how it was written decades ago ...
Excerpt:
"I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy - they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long." - E.M. Forster
Favorites:
"Piss & Vinegar" by Dominguez (local spoken word artist...check out his blog at www.dominguezpoetry.com ), the great philosophers, working on a list of top 500 works to read.
Fav biography: Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson.
Fav memoir/poetry: Malas Ondas by Kent Evans; Dominguez's work.
Book on my nightstand: Sextrology by Starsky & Cox
Some fave fiction: Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez.
Other fave writers: Dante, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Miguel Pinero and the first Nuyorican Poets, Maya Angelou, Shakespeare, Isabel Allende, Sandra Cisneros ("You Bring Out the Mexican In Me"), Dan Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, Victor Villasenor, Anne Rice and the list goes on and on....I love to read and promote reading to everyone.
One day I'll learn Latin.... yes, Latin.... and how to play the guitar...
Heroes:
The Nuestra Palabra Crew
