teaching, writing, dumb dancing, arts organizing, martini hours and ladies' campari afternoons, indie films, experimental art, pop culture, talking about food while eating and cooking, making sweet music, magic mic sessions, and yoga.
my lola, imelda marcos, dj qbert, the mixtress, gabriela silang, kim deal, my mom at age 30, J.C., buddha, the dalai lama, survivors of the 1904 world's fair, and janis joplin.
booty-licious: sade, lauryn hill, stevie wonder, arrested development, P.I.C., dancehall, triple threat DJs, kuttin kandi, freestyle, and kelly clarkson.head trip-licious: sun ra, dj qbert, dj shadow, dj z-trip, john coltrane, miles davis, ella fitzgerald.emo-licious: the jack lords, jets to brazil, modest mouse, mogwai, lush, the breeders, the pixies, nirvana, the cure, the smiths, morrissey, the eraserheads, erasure.
napoleon dynamite, annie (the musical), mean girls, ghost world, girlfight, beautiful boxer, himala, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, sybil, the beatles' yellow submarine, hero, enter the dragon, reality bites, elf, dazed and confused.
Made (i am a sucker for narratives of "being a different person" within reality television) & Project Runway (i like pretty clothes and ugly people)
how to write your dissertation in 15 minutes a day (joan bolker), the protestant ethic and the spirit of idealism (rey chow), notes from a dirty old man (charles bukowski), to kill a mockingbird (harper lee), the outsiders (s.e. hinton), dogeaters (jessica hagedorn), dictee (theresa hak kyung cha), blu's hanging & saturday night at the pahala theatre (lois-ann yamanaka), borderlands/la frontera (gloria anzaldua), rolling the r's (r zamora linmark), waylaid (ed lin), and on the road (j. kerouac)