For all tha HATERS..This is what it be...what nowAnything that has a positive vibe to it.Semillas del pueblo... Art, Forklorico, making jewelry, ceramics, sculpture, reading, dancing, poetry, graffiti, relaxing, sleeping, juices, tofu, pirateria rules, strawberry juice farts, baby vomit, running, hiking, being inlove, playing with my monkeys, yerba buena, the feeling of being connected, Life, mother earth, the ocean, Mexico, breathing clean air (none of that left in L.A.), being at peace, movement, happiness, thinking, learning, balance, family, all the good stuff. .. width="425" height="350" ..
I'd like to meet:
I'm facinated by people, especially positive ones.This is what i love about East Los...just different in itself..
Music:
The Types of sounds and beats that make you hurt inside but yet they feel so good, Anything that makes me move, from michael jackson, lauryn hill, Immortal tecnique,Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, NAS, Saul Williams, mos def, common, acid reign,rage againts the machine, outkast, 2mex, krs one, maldita vecindad, tijuana no, El gran silencio, limbo zamba, sargeant garcia, fidel, casper, yaiva to bob marlley, burning spear,ziggy marley, alika y la nueva alianza, arrested development, Tu-pac, la llaga, Sade, Erika badu, lauryn hill, alicia keys,goapele, billy holiday,Lila downs, susana baca, thats right Juan Gabriel..and of course Vicente Fernanadez; pretty much anything except country. LOcal bands like slowrider, quetzal, domingo siete, quinto sol, Alika y Nueva Alianza, Aztlan undergroundand, burning star, all the other bands representing.
Movies:
I like old Mexican films, Macario, Janitzio, maria candelaria, anyhthing with tin tan in it, or pedro infante. La otra conquista, smoke signals, thunderheart, whale rider, once were warriors, motorcycle diaries, amores perros, perfume de violetas, el crimen del padre amaru, y tu mama tambien, sexo pudor y lagrimas, santitos, la otra frida, todo el poder, como agua para chocolate, rojo amanecer,el bulto, city of god, hero, crouching tiger hidden dragon, kung fu hustle, ninja scrolls, rockers, hotel rwanda shaka zulu,roots. LOve any movie that makes me feel something.I also like watching documentaries, buena vista social club, life and debt, dogtown z boys, queen omega rising, farenhet 9/11, unconstitutional.My Own movie ..called "almost nine months pregnant and loving it"..
Television:
Ocasionally im guilty of watching the simpsons.
Books:
Indian giver, broken spears, Mastery of love, juventud en extacy, Un grito desesperado. Las palabras de nuestros antepasados, tinta roja tinta negra, anything by leon portilla and Don Miguel Ruiz. The primal mind, American holocaust, ishi, the vanishing white man, making of the white man, popol vuh, rigoberta menchu, chitontiquiza, nezahualcoyotl, songs of the hummingbird, drink cultura, ,malintzin, in the spirit of crazy horse, prison writtings, medicina azteca, esclavos africanos en la ciudad de mexico, black elk speaks, Indian giver, broken spears, sun chief, ishi, popol vuh, any kind of cultural reading. 1984, brave new world, the rape of nanking, siddhartha etc.
Heroes:
CRISTOBAL RAMIREZ CRUZ....Mis abuelos y los antepasados, todo aquel que vino antes de mi. Mis nenes y mi companero mas que nada, all single mothers who struggle and are making it happen, The tamaleros and pupuseros in da corner...I luv you guys is people like you i admire...and all the peeps out in da calles trying to make an honest living..ya'll my heroes and sheroes, Frida kahlo, Diego Rivera, Anguiano, Las soldaderas, dolores huerta, Rigoberta menchu, Zapata, Guadalupe Posada, La Corrgidora, Nezahualcoyotl, Cuautemoc, El EZLN Fighting in chiapas for self preservation.Mi familia
