My sister's kids are my anti-drug...not that I'm necessarily anti-drug. Just when it comes to watching kids.
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reading, drawing, writing, photographing my feet, dancing, singing, hiking, walking, dinosaurs, geishas, japanese things, multi-step equations, wandering, botanical gardens, the L.A. river, older men, puppets, forests, beaches, sand dunes, getting fat, etchings, goat cheese, ballet, african dance, butoh, flamenco, bullfights, deserts, super8 filmmaking, riding cars, horses, bicycles, ferries, etc., paper dolls, archery, praying, decorating eggs, intaglio-ing, linocutting, silkscreening, sewing, banana trees, making waffles, bichos, acting erratic around my mother, rocks, shooting (film, not birds), bad t.v., good cinema.
The bastard who ended my wandering eye's travels.
...and Gael Garcia Bernal, and preferably not on the 110 freeway when I haven't washed my hair and it's 94 degrees outside. That was embarrassing, somehow more than the fact that I have Gael Garcia Bernal mentioned on my myspace. Perhaps more embarrassing than the fact that I have a myspace.
david bowie, la ley, mana, manu chao, beck, air, quetzal, nortenas, eydie gorme, ice cream trucks, morrissey, cat stevens, lucybell, johnny cash, artichoke, bauhaus, kinky, the clash, the sex pistols, siouxsie and the banshees, the smiths, akron/family, russian folk songs, corridos, pedro infante, pixies, lou jordan, daniele luppi, ennio morricone, bjork, radiohead, rage against the machine, yoko ono, the beatles, the rolling stones, pizzicato five, angela correa, quetzal, fujiya and miyagi, joseph arthur, france gall, serge gainsbourg, jaranas, domingo siete, led zeppelin, nino rota, charlie parker, miles davis, sufjan stevens, bessy smith, benny goodman, vicky carr, linda ronstadt, joan baez, bob dylan (shut up), 1960's Indian music, ravi shankhar, flamenco, the monkees, depeche mode, los illegals, talking heads, tom tom club, los abandoned, echo and the bunnymen, SELENA (in Spanish), the pretenders, (old) shakira, ella fitzgerald, billy holiday, devo, the kinks, nirvana, john coltrane, nina simone, the doors, yann tiersen, spirituals, the arcade fire, stereo total, jefferson airplane, opera, nancy sinatra, lalo guerrero, the zombies, the abbyssinians, accordions, grandaddy, the strokes, concrete blonde, neil young, lcd soundsystem, julio jaramillo, trio los panchos, that brass band music from oaxaca, roots music, mariachi, rancheras, old mambos, crosby stills nash and young...
FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, NABOKOV and Hemingway, Hesse, the Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita, Venus in Furs (don't tell my mother I read that), fairy tales, folk tales, mythology, history books.
SOPHIA LOREN.