“Pinto porque pintar me hace sentir libre, porque vivo obsesionado con el sentimiento de libertad y cada vez que lo hago experimento ese sentimiento profundo de libertad...â€
Cachi Cartagena
(thank u hennifer)
I'd like to meet:
visionaries, fighters, sustainers.
and fine revolutionary-art-thug-hippies.
over the age of 25. hollllerrr.
and investors for the "i don't date white guys" t-shirt project.
Music:
sade, bjork, lhasa, lila, j.johns, sparlha, amel, jill, alicia, tracy, erykah, mary J, fiona...maxwell, hathaway, prince, bts, tom waits, elliot smith...mystic, ozo, j5, mos, talib, lunar heights, kiwi, acey, crowncity, lauryn, common, freestyle fellowship, WUtang, outkast, tribe, dj's neil armstrong/sake/local12/triple threat cats/neta/richmedina...
chicks rockin the piano ::: las lloronas of every nation ::: cheesy asian pop ::: sappy trios ::: radio romantica ::: live drums ::: old painful ass blues ::: morning ragas ::: dub, dancehall, OG ska ::: some old skool and some neo-soul, folk, indie/rock, downtempo, viet's travelling songs, eastcoast house... ok this list really goes on too long.
Movies:
a few:
ROCKERS ::: amandla! ::: hero and frida (blissfully saturated) :::
friday ::: big lebowski ::: o brother ::: snatch ::: oceans 11 ::: MEAN girls :::
everything wongkarwai, esp. the angkorwat scene in In the Mood For Love.
dirty pretty things ::: my sassy girl ::: whale rider ::: pompoko, aka iron raccoon testicles
Television:
/// favorite visual artists: sam flores, favianna, liu hung, kara walker, schiele, keba konte, dream, carrie mae weems, elizabeth catlett, 'nai, charles bibbs, picasso, klee, blue riders crew, wangechi, TYS, jesus barraza, baca, frida, eric bailey, chamindika's work and on and on and on...
tunnel book: "you died there on the cross with Him, now the question comes, will you rise with Him, too?"
Books:
picture books. indy chapbooks. dictee, trask, assata, el saadawi, bell hooks, the prophet, rumi, alice walker, cherrie moraga, le petit prince, everything by arundhati, buk/owsk/i, cat's cradle, more picture books, god made dirt, etc.
by Ray Bradbury:
To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create,
you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling.
You must write every single day of your life.
You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books,
and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head,
vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders
to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats
upon your crazy heads.
I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse
that will last a lifetime.
I wish craziness and foolishness and madness
upon you.
May you live with hysteria,
and out of it make fine stories - science fiction or otherwise.
Which finally means, may you be in love every day
for the next 20,000 days.
And out of that love, remake a world.
and by my wife, Arundhati Roy:
Painters, writers, singers, actors, dancers, filmmakers, musicians
are meant to fly,
to push at the frontiers,
to worry the edges of the human imagination,
to conjure beauty from the most unexpected things,
to find magic in places where
others never thought to look.
