I like to dance and collect stamps in my passport. Love reading and writing and hanging out in used book stores. I dream about sailing around the world and constantly add to the itinerary as I read about places. I could never give up camping or backpacking and I love being out on the water. I absolutely love going to the opera, Verdi is my man, and the symphony. Most musicals and plays annoy the crap out of me. All things Spanish make me smile: flamenco, paella, Gaudi, el Prado, tapas, Real Madrid, La Mala, violetas, Semana Santa, Dali, el Camino, Goya, sangria, Cervantes, Almodovar, conchas....I could go on all day :)
Any dreamers. Anyone with a sense of humor. I'm very optimistic and strangely tend to get along well with pessimists and smart asses. A decent tennis partner. Anyone who likes to write, dance, argue about life, listen to me go on and on about Greek mythology and the constellations, can joust (cuz I want to learn), or who is willing to bait my hook.....yes, you can all be my friend.View All Friends | View Blog | Add Comment
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I like musica I can feel. Strong vocals that make me catch my breath and lyrics that can stand up on their own.I grew up listening to Linda Ronstadt and the Temptations belting out tunes on the 8 tracks my dad still has hiding in the garage.I tried to ignore most of the music I heard in the 90s and then I found flamenco in 2000. You can really lose yourself listening to the stuff. Also like any flamenco fusion, and a lot of the new & vet artists playing around with flamenco.My best friends introduced me to my first taste of British Rock with a little bit of MUSE, Absolution was the first album I listened to all the way through.Even though I do all my speaking and thinking in English, I feel music in Spanish. Not sure why, but it just makes more sense.My playlist has a little bit of everything I like (or at least the everything I could find), have it set to random so take a looksie. Currently loving La Mala- lil flamenco and a whole lot of mala. The Pipettes are a fun spin on the oldies I grew up with.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin, The Red Violin, and Boondock Saints. I like to watch foreign films, some of my favs are Water- a must see, Belle Epoque- magnifico, and Malena. Almodovar and Salles are two of my favorite directors. Everything Javier Bardem and Joaquin Phoenix are in.
Love ROME but thats over now :( only other show I watch is Grey's Anatomy but even that kinda bores me now.
Someone asked me what if I had to walk away with only 3 books, what 3 would I take.First book to stay would be Don Quixote. Fell in love with the story when I was eight, love it literary wise because no matter what page I open to I can read on and not worry about what happened in the pages that came before.Second would be The Book of Disquiet by Pessoa, in the original Portuguese. Finally found a copy of this book in the original Portuguese text and it is better than I thought it would be. I can't explain the way I feel when I read the passages, or the moods that overtake me after, but I know I can't be without this book. Reading it is like a retreat into the man's mind, my own mind.The final book would be Like Water for Chocolate. I like this book because of the way it treats food, family and love. Mmmm, to have all three in my life like that.......not sure I could take that intensity, but I am willing to find out.Other than those I like reading anything by Hemingway, Paradise Lost, 100 Years of Solitude, The Virgin Blue and Girl With a Pearl Earring, Lonely Planet Guides and George Orwell, Wings of the Dove, and old travel guides...I like to collect those
my family. No matter what crazy dream or goals I set my family supports me. Que Amor