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I'd like to meet:

Music:

the sound of the ocean in a seashell

track 7 roxy music /stranded, most everything in D minor, Bach nina simone, chopin, piaf, tv on the radio, tom waits, de la soul, niko, pavement, lou reed,animal collective,elvis, spoon,lenny cohen,dylan, van morrison, iggy, cocteau twins, pinback,p j harvey, old ROXYMUSIC,stevie wonder,cat stevens, otis, t.rex/marc bolan, cat power, smog, drake, beatles, patti smith, niko case, BRMC, calla, boards of canada, blonde redhead, sam cooke, black heart procession,charlie parker, beethoven's 6th,brian eno, eliott smith, iron and wine, clash, viva voce, beck, mus, pixies, miles davis, xiu xiu,the band,my bloody valentine,neil young, cocorosie, chet, bryan ferry, prince,tribe, bjork,kate bush,joan armatrading, beatles, jefferson airplane,kinks,two gallants, beth orton,morrissey, neutral milk hotel, charlie parker,leon russell, funkadelic, sly, manu chao, mogwai, bowie,sparklehorse, devandra banhardt,joni mitchell, godspeed, syd barrett, james brown, curtis.... i could go on and on and on~~~~~

Movies:

Godard really is the greatest, and Michelangelo Antonioni...
TALK TO HER, todo sobre mi madre, station agent, today and tomorrow, volver, dune, gillipolli, pope of greenwich village, y tu mamá también, a bout de souffle!!!!!!!!! the daytrippers, blow up, bottle rocket, eraserhead, nil by mouth, rushmore, basquiat, sex lies and videotape, 21 grams, um filme falado, 8 femmes, history of violence, american pimp, safe, a man and a woman, Kieslowski's three colors trilogy, barfly, waiting for guffman, the jerk, pollock,mean streets, killing zoe, performance, withnail and i, stealing beauty, harold and maude, a delicate balance, ballad of jack and rose, being john M., raising arizona, world according to garp, the grapes of wrath, life without death, story of the weeping camel, breaking the waves, box of moonlight, niagra niagra, jesus' son, separate lies, sketches of frank gehry, rivers and tides, clash of the titans, my left foot, ladyhawk, memento, cinema paradiso, east of eden, body heat, braveheart, palookaville, motorcycle diaries, nowhere in africa, chopper, city of god, amores perros, my architect, forty shades of blue,fargo, henry and june, run lola run, howard zinn documentary, china town, sex with lucia, kinsey, stander, baraka, yellow submarine, platoon, black hawk down, besieged, 2001, dragonslayer, diva, american splendor, brazil, requiem for a dream, mad max, trainspotting, LA confidential, the stranger, black gold, delicatessen, big fish, the big lebowski, capturing the friedmans, the sheltering sky, american movie, changing hearts, darwin's nightmare, amelie, blade runner, the wings of a dove, lost in translation, match point, today and tomorrow, broken glass, buffalo 66, bande à part, house of yes, best in show,the piano, les mépris, les carabiniers, Ro.Go.Pa.G., the return, le petit soldat, Vivre sa vie,

Television:

kQED
food network
cooking shows. esp. the british/pbs ones
lost
i like animal shows, like that nature show on pbs
frontline,
travel shows...

Books:

I love reading! At this moment I am reading mostly books on architecture, design, and dare i say, books on eastern thought and spiritual practice. Yes, even i am searching for primal simplicity
Here are some of my favorite books:
Thomas Pynchon; Gravity's rainbow
Kenneth Grahame;The Wind In The Willows
J.M. Coetzee; disgrace
John Fante; Ask the Dust
Leo Tolstoy; Anna Karenina
John Fowles; The Magus
George Orwell; nineteen-eighty-four
Aldous Huxley; brave new world,
Virginia Woolf; to the lighthouse,
Toni Morrison; song of soloman, the bluest eye
Gabriel Garcia Marquez; A hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera
Bukowski; Post Office, Women
Milan Kundera; unberable lightness of being, Immortality
Jim Thompson; the grifters
Kafka, ~Raimbaud, ~Camus, ~Maupassant, ~Tolstoy, ~Nabokov~
Anthony Burgess; wanting seed
Henry Miller; tropic of cancer
W. Stegner; Angle of repose
Ken Follett; the pillars of the earth
Mikhail Bugakov; the master and margarita, the heart of a dog
John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath
Annie Proux; the shipping news
Flannery O'Connor; A good man is hard to find, wise blood
Chuck Palahniuk; lullaby
J. Irving; the world according to garp, hotel new hampshire
Patrick Suskind; perfume
Michel Houellebecq; whatever
JD Salanger; catcher in the rye
Kahil Gibran; The Prophet
Hubert Selby Jr; Requiem for a dream, last exit to brooklyn
Rhinton Mistry; A fine balance
Katherine Dunn; Geek Love
J. Kennedy Toole; a confederacy of dunces
Alan Glynn; the dark fields
William Burroughs; naked lunch
hemingway; the sun also rises, the old man and the sea
Jeffrey (something); Middlesex
Paul Bowles; the sheltering Sky~

Heroes:

Ando!!!! This is the garden of my dreams...
his work simply takes my breath away
Kahil Gibran, and Zaha Hadid are nothing short of AMAZING!!!! Although i really respect the work of many artists, and creators, Kahil Gibrans, "the prophet" changed my life. That book holds more meaning to me, and to my family than i can express, nor care to.
My god... Hadid, im going to worship her for now...
www.zaha-hadid.com
if you get the chance to read about her life, and look at her designs/architecture, i highly recommend it. I find that she is inspirational not only as a woman or an architect, but also as a pursuer and achiever of great dreams.
otherwise~ my heroes are those selfless, passionate, never commanding, never coercing, never manipulating, ever loving, endlessly brave, seeking, looking, and questioning people...where are they? i think when a hero is a true hero, whatever is done happens so naturally that no one presumes to take the credit.
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SLEEPING ON THE WING
Perhaps it is to avoid some great sadness,
as in a Restoration tragedy the hero cries "Sleep!
O for a long sound sleep and so forget it!"
that one flies, soaring above the shoreless city,
veering upward from the pavement as a pigeon
does when a car honks or a door slams, the door
of dreams, life perpetuated in parti-colored loves
and beautiful lies all in different languages.
Fear drops away too, like the cement, and you
are over the Atlantic. Where is Spain? where is
who? The Civil War was fought to free the slaves,
was it? A sudden down-draught reminds you of gravity
and your position in respect to human love. But
here is where the gods are, speculating, bemused.
Once you are helpless, you are free, can you believe
that? Never to waken to the sad struggle of a face?
to travel always over some impersonal vastness,
to be out of, forever, neither in nor for!
The eyes roll asleep as if turned by the wind
and the lids flutter open slightly like a wing.
The world is an iceberg, so much is invisible!
and was and is, and yet the form, it may be sleeping
too. Those features etched in the ice of someone
loved who died, you are a sculptor dreaming of space
and speed, your hand alone could have done this.
Curiosity, the passionate hand of desire. Dead,
or sleeping? Is there speed enough? And, swooping,
you relinquish all that you have made your own,
the kingdom of your self sailing, for you must awake
and breathe your warmth in this beloved image
whether it's dead or merely disappearing,
as space is disappearing and your singularity.
~Frank O' Hara
Ask Me
Some time when the river is ice ask me
mistakes i have made. Ask me whether
what i have done is my life. Others
have come in their slow way into
my thought, and some have tried to help
or to hurt: ask me what difference
their strongest love or hate has made
I will listen to what you say.
You and i can turn and look
At the silent river and wait. We know
the current is there, hidden; and there
are comings and goings from miles away
that hold the stillness exactly before us.
What the river says, that is what i say.
~ William Stafford