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Pantera Negra

Pantera Negra, I'd Rather Be On A Beach Myspace Codes: MyNiceSpace.com

About Me

My name is Pantera Negra and I was born in Puerto Rico to a Cuban-Puerto Rican father and an African-Haitian mother. I love music, movies, and television; but I also love to read and write. "When I grow up," I want to be a movie director. I'm complex, but I've learned to live with it and so should you, b/c it's never going to change according to my abuelita. I always have trouble summing up who I am in a few sentences (probably b/c for the most part I'm still trying to figure that out), pero aqu� es: soy qui�n soy y yo quiero respeto. (I am who I am and I want respect). This means there will be no naughty photos of me "all up and through" Myspace, or anywhere else for that matter. My "T&A" is for me and the one I deem special enough to see it (whoever that is...any ideas? I'm taking applications, tee-hee!). Aquella mierda es personal, para verdadero. If that's what you do, that's fine. But that's not who I am.

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My Interests

Reading, writing, music, movies, soccer, baseball, tennis, making films, racism in Latin America, Israeli/Palestinian conflict, genocide in Africa, Asian culture and traditions, the plight of Haiti.

I'd like to meet:

Maxwell, Fidel Castro, Oprah Winfrey, Orishas, Don Omar, Daddy Yankee, Draco, Michelle Rodriguez, Marat Safin, Bill Clinton, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Quinten Tarentino, Pedro Almod�var, Bae Yung Jun, Takashi Sorimachi, Derek Jeter, James Blake, Robert Rodr�guez, Jason Momoa, Margaret Cho, Little X, Benicio Del Toro, those who are like me, those who aren't like me, those who are open-minded, people having a bad day, people having a good day, outcasts, punks, goths/emos, asians, boricuas, cubanos, mexicans, venezolanos, haitians, peruvians, native americans (the whole cultural/color spectrum), democrats, republicans, independents, those who don't have time for labels, breeders, lesbians, gay men (flamboyant and otherwise, pero no DLs 'cause that's just wrong...just admit who you are), Maxwell lovers(b/c I'll love him 'til the dId), Maxwell haters (although if you let it be known, you might...how do the hipsters say, "get jacked" (see the previous statement in parenthesis if you want to know why), people who feel like laughing, people who feel like crying, bi-polars, those with BPD, those who are stuck and feel like they're going nowhere, those who have already achieved their dream, those yet to dream, those whose dreams have been dashed; but still have the courage dare to dream again, if you're poor, if you're rich, sluts (male or female), virgins (male or female), ex-pats (why did you leave? just curious), people who want peace and hate war (I'm not being political, I just don't think you have to kill people to make the world a better place), those who think, "Damn, she wants to meet a lot of people!", those who think the list is too short, people who thought I left someone out, and anyone who ever thought they were stuck in a parallel universe where nothing seems right. There are probably more, pero ahora mismo, necesito un fijar de Maxwell.

Music:

Maxwell, Don Omar, Gavin DeGraw, Los Pericos, Motel, Daddy Yankee, LDA, Draco, Reik, Volumen Cero, Frou Frou, Anything from the 80s, Coldplay, Etta James, Judy Garland, Juanes, Natalia y la Forquetina, Ivy Queen, Shakira, Juanes, Belanova, Elan, Paramore, The Editors, Ingrid Michaelson, Moenia, Depeche Mode, Soulhead, In Spain, Paul Oakenfold, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Fall Out Boy, Mayday, Gnarls Barkley, La Secta Allstar, Ella Fitgerald, The Fray, Jennifer Pe?a, Si*Se, The Shins, Amos Lee, JD Natasha, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Aerosmith, Pinker Tones, Molotov, Calle 13, Camila, Linkin Park, Sade, Mano Negro, Metallica, Gym Class Heroes, Julieta Venegas, Amy Winehouse, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, David Bisbal, The Who, Pink Floyd, Green Day, Soulhead, Estrella, Man?.

Movies:

Too many. I had them all listed, but the space brain-farted and everything went bye-bye.

Television:

Prison Break, Medium, CSI:Miami, House, Law & Order:SVU, Law & Order, ER, Grey's Anatomy, Stargate:Atlantis, Tennis, MLS Soccer, Baseball, The Closer, Living With Lydia, Hotelier, Winter Sonata, My Lovely Samsoon, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Fight Quest, Man vs. Wild, Chicas Project, El Show, Unbeatable Banzuke, Ninja Warrior, UFC Unleashed.

Books:

Whatever Happened to Dulce Veiga? By: Caio Fernando Abreu; The Reluctant Fundamentalist. By: Mohsin Hamid; Justine. By: Marquis De Sade

Heroes:

Anyone who gets knocked down and stomped on; and has the audacity to rise and kick ass again, no matter how long it takes.

My Blog

Defying Gravity

The world kicked my ass today.  I went down in a not-so-blaze of glory.  Not proud about it; it just happened that way.  But as the lady states:  "Something has changed within me.&...
Posted by Pantera Negra on Tue, 27 May 2008 09:56:00 PST

The Disaster You Left Behind

My heart breaks everytime I think of the disaster you left behind. What was once my forest of innocense is now a blood-soaked, barren wasteland; ignored.  The fate of a community garden, tended w...
Posted by Pantera Negra on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 07:39:00 PST

Hypnotic

The rhythm takes over My body is possessed Awakened from an eternal sleep I am released, like a prisoner shackled to a soul in despair. My feet are percussion Pounding the earth so hard as to wake the...
Posted by Pantera Negra on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:04:00 PST