i love my family and red wine and garlic and chile and arguing and laughing. i love quirky passionate people, and honest music. i have amazing friends. i have been accused of both having too many interests and too much personality. i think if you want it bad enough you can make space for it in your life. manifest. and love it or leave it.
people who, like me, loved to play with the melted wax of burning candles but who, also like me, inevitably got yelled at for spilling it. so i guess that means creative mess-makers. and there are more of us out there than i could ever have imagined. i still spill stuff occasionally but i am getting really good at cleaning it up. or making it look intentional. also, girls who play accordion but don't wear pigtails while they do it. and people who like to do yoga on the kitchen floor, cause i do and it's much cheaper that way.
rokia traore, amalia rodrigues, ray charles, dolly parton, the roots, regina spektor, thelonius monk, emiliana torrini, tinariwen, RJD2, corsican and albanian polyphony, max roach, cansever, cee-lo green and his perfect imperfections, amy winehouse, boban markovic orkestar, urna chahar-tugchi, ivan kupala, dezarie, midnite, tairov amza, aicha redouane, bob dylan, jon brion, gillian welch, bregovic, mariza, zap mama, otis redding,sotiria bellou, nedyalka keranova, rebetika, gotan project, mariana sadovska, aimee mann, celia cruz, lola beltran, la rue ketanou, camaron, django, stevie wonder, joni mitchell, fiona apple, susheela raman, lhasa de sela, ojos de brujo, mladi talenti, gani gani, kristali, shankar, las ondas marteles, duke ellington, aphex twin, thievery corporation, laço tayfa, nadezhda xvojneva, tom waits, rebirth brass band, the toids, mayté martin, eartha kitt, herbie hancock, amadou et mariam, youssou n'dour, astor piazzolla, eleni vitali, theodosii spassov, vranjanski perli, control machete, la rue ketanou, slavic soul party, gnarls barkley, mc rai, ensemble georgika, joanna newsom, unlabeled bukharan and tajik songs from yasin and rosa, smyrneika and rebetika, gnawa diffusion, davul zurna, old kakhetian and panduri songs that aurelia sings, corsican and sardinian polyphony.
yeah right.
i started reading again. it's fucking good to read.
oum kulthoum, cansever, tzvetanka varimezova