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Aziza Montenegro

come into my web, said the spider. et cetera......

About Me

so here's my short story, vague theatrics aside. my full name in english means little girl sweetest joy precious green...it's ok, you can giggle, my parents are a buppie-pan african-hippie artist hybrid. i'm a recovering tomboy and an only child. art is everywhere and everything. i think way too much. music calms me down. what else....QUI CA? NOU LA!Pls support this album... Nola Darling's on a few tracks! You can buy it on iTunes now...


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My Interests

jumping rope. riding deep with my girls in a 94' wrangler jeep. magical realism. boys who can spell. Almodovar. now and laters. hypomania. Datsun Zs. overcoming my cyberchondria. pannie store music. retiring the bamboo.

I'd like to meet:

forever and always: bill s. preston, esq., theodore logan, moon doggie, angel juan, buckaroo bonzai, hamza, and my secret agent lover man. and my idol, the grande dame....

Music:



Nola Darling, Esthero, Sir Samuel, Kudu, 340 ml, Tha Dogg Pound, 2Pac, YoYo, Ice Cube, Fela, J*Davey, Amadou et Mariam, Serge Gainsbourg, Big Youth, Carlinhos Brown, Big L, K-os, The Kwani Experience, Tumi and The Volume, Brazilian Girls, L'Trimm, Amel Larrieux, Bad Brains, Super Senna, MXO, Grace Jones, The Runaways, Brigitte Bardot, Thandiswa, Slick Rick, Special Ed, Masta Ace, Big Daddy Kane, J Dilla, Elucid, Mad Professor, Madlib,The Gorillaz, N.E.R.D, Imani Coppola, Tanya Stephens, Betty Davis, Vanity 6, Mary Jane Girls, Yarah Bravo, One Self, Joni Mitchell, Boards of Canada, Lila Downs, Res, Talib, Ani Difranco, Common, Klymaxx, Little Brother, Sade, Aswad, Black Star, Dennis Brown, John Coltrane, Miles, Santana, M.I.A., La India, the Roots, Heart, Joan Jett, Carlinhos Brown, Bob Marley, Bola Sete, Earth, Wind and Fire, D'Angelo, Bebel Gilberto, Maxwell, Fiona Apple, Ella, Sarah, Dinah, Syreeta, Eddie Palmieri, Nina Simone, Zap Mama, Les Nubians, Tito Puente, Ray Barretto, My Fania All-Stars,OutKast, Teena Marie, Nas, Prince, Miles Davis, Steel Pulse, Third World, Rick James, Stevie Wonder, De La Soul. A Tribe Called Quest, Native Tongues, Willie Nelson.

Movies:

2 Days In Paris, Broken English, Persepolis, Are You Cinderella? (my favorite short in the entire world!!!), Brother From Another Planet, Shaun of the Dead, Once Were Warriors, Tableau Feraille, Uptown Saturday Night, The Princess Bride, Now, Voyager, Carmen Jones, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Willow, Sankofa, the whole Lord of the Rings trilogy , Wild Style, Freestyle, Labyrinth, Dancehall Queen, Quilombo, Let's Do It Again, The Wiz, The Fifth Element, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues, Bounce, Strictly Ballroom, Teen Witch, Rabbit Proof Fence, Fight Club, Tank Girl, Krush Groove, Up In Smoke, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, The Warriors, Do The Right Thing, School Daze, Beat Street, Baby Mother, Sexy Beast, Talk to Her, Live Flesh, Goodfellas, The Professional, Kill Bill Pt. 1 and 2, Requieum for a Dream, An Affair To Remember, Almost Famous, Boyz N The Hood, Mildred Pierce, All About Eve, Orfeu, Black Orpheus, Frida, Mi Familia, American Me, The Flower of My Secret, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Juice, Paid In Full, Cidade de Deus, Friday Foster, X, She's Gotta Have It, Raising Victor Vargas, I Heart Huckabees, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Muriel's Wedding, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, anything with Bette Davis.....

Television:

a trick question?

Books:

Warrior of the Light, The Alchemist, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone, Anything Octavia Butler, Brown Girl in the Ring, A Wrinkle In Time, Bone Black, Sula, Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, Weetzie Bat, The Salt Roads, Manchild in the Promised Land, The Spook Who Sat By the Door, Back In The Days, The Coyote Kings of The Space Age Bachelor Pad, Caramelo, The Four Agreements, The Prophet, Like Water for Chocolate, Giovanni's Room, Mama Day, Linden Hills, Paradise, The Sound I Saw, The Sweet Flypaper of Life, Half Past Autumn, Invisible Man, No Disrespect by Sistah Souljah, Love In The Time of Cholera, The House of The Spirits, Eva Luna, The Stories of Eva Luna, Of Love and Shadows,The Healing, Eleven Minutes

Heroes:

it ain't hard to tell.

My Blog

And I wonder, if you know what it means...to find your DREAMS COME TRUE!

Our film has been selected to be in the 2008 Pan African Film and Arts Festival this coming February in Los Angeles (at the Magic Johnson Movie Theater). YAY!Come thru if you're in the L.A. area...FEB...
Posted by Aziza Montenegro on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:58:00 PST

WORD?!

So much of my time, energy, and $$$ has gone into this labor of love that is now going into the 2nd phase of editing. Soon come, NOU LA will be reaching out, looking for your support in different ways...
Posted by Aziza Montenegro on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:29:00 PST

unfortunately the spider came into my lair...

and bit me on my lip. i got fifteen minutes of sleep. literally. now i am quite delirious watching Delicatessen (which isn't helping) and watching my lip get more and more swole by the hour. thanks m...
Posted by Aziza Montenegro on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 04:54:00 PST

Jozi, Cape Town, Accra, and Addis Ababa....

thank you for allowing me to find home on/in/with your dusty roads, paved streets, brown faces, smiles, rare grooves, strange birds, generosity, fierce determination, independence, fat beats, curious ...
Posted by Aziza Montenegro on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:39:00 PST

NO SLEEP TO BROOKLYN!!! Party!!!!

thas right mo'fos.....the harlem hellfighters aka sugar hill's finest la-la-ladies, NOLA DARLING, are fidna throw down on a funky lil jawn wit our girl, MADAME TURK every other wednesday at Supreme T...
Posted by Aziza Montenegro on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:17:00 PST

My OTHER myspace page.....

if you ain't already knowin' (and you should....) please consider yourself now informed.....i'm a director/producer (among many things) and my unit is called Nou La Productions. please check out our M...
Posted by Aziza Montenegro on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 08:18:00 PST