writing
playing violin, soprano ukulele, and piano
decoupaging boxes
playmobil and collecting playmobil
creating stop motion short films
plains of shado ben: episode I
taking photos
gael garcia bernal
aventuras con shand walton
pow-wows con las chicas superpoderosas (anna la burbuja y paige la bombon)
chicharrones con salsa valentina!
chullos and cloches
burt's bees products
ocean steamliners (particularly of the cunard line)
architecture (caribbean spanish colonial, craftsman, art deco, frank lloyd wright, art nouveau, mexican colonial, old west adobe, and gold rush in the pacific northwest)
gardening natives, herbs, and vegetables
collecting fruit crate labels, green bottles, cunard memorabilia, tin & wooden boxes, and colorful bottlecaps
pirates, gypsies, and charolastras
californians, hidrocálidos, d.f.eños/as
exploring, wandering, breaking and entering
sushi, korean, vietnamese, and persian food
mexican martinis made in austin, micheladas made in mexico
work by my brilliant friend paige moore
old advertisement posters and labels
mitch hedburg. the funniest man. ever.
catahoula leopard hound dogs
I'd like to meet:
...people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everbody goes 'Awww!'
--Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Pirates, gypsies, ghosts, charolastras, and Golden the Pony Boy.
Music:
Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Soul Coughing, Morphine, Beck, They Might Be Giants, Camper Van Beethoven, Calexico, Theater Fire, Daniel Johnston, Elliott Smith, X
Yann Tiersen, Antonio Vivaldi, Aaron Copland, Astor Piazzola, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, and most players of gypsy music
The Pogues, Gogol Bordello, The Levellers, The Greencards, The Bills, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Legendary Shack Shakers
Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Julio Jaramillo
My friends who make music: Shand Walton, Jim Keaveny, Kirk Smith, Combo Mahalo, White Ghost Shivers, Black Molly, The Refreshmints Band, Turbina, Marshall Jones & the Frontier Phrenologists, Sarah Stollak, The Road To Recovery, Randy Weeks, Ramsay Midwood
Movies:
El Laberinto del Fauno, El Espinazo del Diablo, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mamá También, La Mala Educación, El Crimen de Padre Amaro, El Callejón de los Milagros, La Niña de Tus Ojos, La Science des Rêves, Amelie, Delicatessen, La Cité des Enfants Perdus, Betty Blue, Tuvalu, Exils, Gadjo Dilo, Il Postino, Luci del Varietà Legend of 1900, Titanic, Poseidon Adventure, A Night to Remember
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Infinity, War Games, Biloxi Blues
Chinatown, Casablanca, Out of the Past, Third Man, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, Key Largo
Cradle Will Rock, Sweet and Low Down, Lost in Yonkers, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Dead Poets Society, Out of Africa, Snows of Kilimanjaro, Last Picture Show, Giant, Rebel Without a Cause, Quiet Days in Clichy
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Finding Neverland, Pirates of the Caribbean, Peter Pan (2003), Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Temple of Doom, The Last Crusade, Goonies, Planet of the Apes (w/C. Heston)
Gangs of NY, Oliver Twist, From Hell, The Claim, Godfather trilogy, Scarface, Reservoir Dogs, Grifters, Miller's Crossing, Blue Velvet
Television:
Although I am currently under the impression that my TVs sole existence is to enable my DVD player, I do like the following: Ghost Hunters, Mythbusters, X-Files (the early episodes with David Duchovny), Sex and the City, El Chavo del Ocho, Planet of the Apes (1974 episodes), and Third Rock from the Sun
Books:
unabridged dictionaries preferably with etymologies, Without Stopping by Paul Bowles, Ask the Dust by John Fante, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth, Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, All the Pretty Horse by Cormac McCarthy, Across the Wire and The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, Diana la Cazadora Solitaria by Carlos Fuentes, La Casa de los Espiritus by Isabel Allende, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Horseman Pass By by Larry McMurtry, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
I also like to read stuff online:
New York Times
Los Fuzzy Dice
Ask a Mexican!
Found Magazine
The Onion
McSweeney's
Words and Images
Heroes:
Maria Ines Lopez Gurrola, Kahlil Gibran, Frida Kahlo, and Beryl Markham.
