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roach

habla con el corazon y no con el culo

About Me


my name is rocio.
but everyone calls me roach.
I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass The sun beat in between my shoulders like carnival drums I sat still in hopes that it would help my wings grow So then I would really be fly And then she arrived Like day break inside a railway tunnel Like the new moon,like a diamond in the mines Like high noon to a drunkard,sudden She made my heart beat in a now-now time signature Her skinny canvas for ultarviolet brushstrokes She was the sun's painting She was a deep cognac color Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city Her lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet And full for her mouth to hold I said,"You are beautiful,distress of mathematics." I said,"For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit." And give you lightning and thunder as dowry I would make the sky shed all of its stars like rain I would clasp the constellations around your waist And I would make the heavens your cape And they would be please to cover you They would be pleased to cover you May I please,cover you,please.
I know a thing or two about hip-hop, i don't own an ipod out of principle, im not very interested in owning a car and believe solely in acupuncture... i drink tea excessively, volunteer ordinarily and hold the communist manifesto as my only holy writ...get on that please.
i travel constantly...ive slept everywhere imaginable..on couches, chairs, trains, airplanes, buses, futons, floors and on my own feet while walking...its tough on the body but easy on the spirit...ive seen forests, cities, towns and suburbias...met young and old and everything in between...i miss home 60% of the time, but the nostalgia only makes me appreciate familiar faces even more...i wouldn't trade it for anything in the world...because there is always more to life than this polluted city.
guess where i'm at...i think in 3 different languages, i pray to different gods, meditate while listening to music and walk everywhere...i have the biggest fear of stairs, especially train stairs (the narrow ones) and love chocolate.
my heart always sinks when i leave LA. Weather through platforms or terminals, glimpsing back at everything behind me yelling out home, the known and familiar is hard to let go sometimes, but life isn't about looking backwards...not at all.
the most beautiful thing i have ever seen...the thin layer of oxygen and compounds...a halo atop a beautiful world rotting away.
the way i remember her.
i slack off and mess with photoshop
hand signs
my brother and i make handsigns all the time on our spare time.
my very talented friends often draw me things....and as a token of my thnx i often offend them.
p.s. my name isn't martha...
throw up your best and rep for the west
im zen 79% of the time.

My Interests

running, excersising, smoking,drinking tea, reading, skating, breathing, observing art, photography, cleaning,bathing my turtles, watering my plants, typing, listening to good music, making words, walking my turtles, eating chocolate, jews, latins, gay guys, going to church, taking the bus, talking to people on the train, tagging on L.A. buses, pretending i know how to brekdance, raves, glowsticks, tetherball, playing nintendo, rolling up dutchess', riding airplanes, traveling, washing my face, having my friends rap in my ear while we're drunk, listening to brasilian guys rap in english with a really heavy accent,cooking at 1 in the morning while listenng to Juan Luis Guerra, waking up to find a new pack of fags on my desk, smoking in the mountains, driving no where, clubing, playing basketball, trying to put my old chucks back together in vain because they're basically rags now, driving at 100 down the freeway at 3 in the morning, going to Frisco, going to NY, going back-back to cali-cali, lovin L.A., hanging out with my brother, getting peircings, getting tattoos in Castro street in Frisco, singing in the rain, listening to Elton John with a bunch of guys in the car, pretending fredo and i are cousins when in reality we are partners in crime, avoiding people, sleeping on sabrina's bed, not eating breakfast, running my finger's through my babushka's hair, acknowledging my cat even though he walks away from me when im talking to him, smoking hookah, laying on the grass and watching the stars, my professor, applying lip balm, drinking and beer pong, isolation, being on the train for 4 days straight, building conversations from awkward first dates, eating home made sushi, losing weight, playing basketball with cholos, my husband lil wayne, being a hopeless romantic, reading about warhol, sun bathing, eating ice cream

I'd like to meet:

your aura. my country. GOD.

Music:



janis joplin, billie holiday and rocio durcal.

Movies:

french new wave. thunder over mexico.

Television:

Absolutely fabolous, L.A. ink, south park, the history channel, the office, rob & big

Books:

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

-- Pablo Neruda

Neruda's love poems and a song of despair

Heroes:

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My Blog

off on the road...

in a perfect world all i would need on my adventures would be my trusty swiss army knife, a cup of tea in a thermo and my skateboard.
Posted by roach on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:06:00 PST

to love somebody

"To Love Somebody" There's a light, certain kinda light, Never ever, never shone on me, no, no. Honey, I want, I want my whole life To be lived with you, babe, That's what I want oh, was to be Living ...
Posted by roach on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:55:00 PST

to love somebody

"To Love Somebody" There's a light, certain kinda light, Never ever, never shone on me, no, no. Honey, I want, I want my whole life To be lived with you, babe, That's what I want oh, was to be Living ...
Posted by roach on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:54:00 PST

real friends.

this is for my friends out there that through the years have not forgotten my name.i tend to wander astray from home most of the times, sometimes too often that it seems to me sometimes that the defin...
Posted by roach on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:21:00 PST

why some friends call me Cali/southcentral

people will often hate on california, especially los angeles: the ever so popular: "Los Angeles is full of superficial people" is often remarked when they ask me where i'm from. my answer: there are f...
Posted by roach on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:11:00 PST

some good advice.

my younger brother Won often surprises me.  we talked today and i asked him about his classes: he's doing very well....it's surprising really, well because a few monhs ago he was gangbangin. its...
Posted by roach on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:48:00 PST

memories.

its hard to reflect on things that happen so suddenly. as if the shock unables you to speak sometimes.i remember when i met my friend O, the next day he passed away from a gun shot wound in a drive by...
Posted by roach on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:23:00 PST