vegetarianism; reading anything that i can get my hands on; sleeping; going to the library and used bookstores; watching art and foreign films, as well as ridiculous romantic comedies; anti-capitalist movements; global women's movements; writing; environmentalism; natural childbirth; traveling; gardening
Music
punk, reggae, blues, metal, glam, britpop, 60s girl bands, early rock-n-roll, pretty much anything from the 80s, ladies from all genres who can really belt it out, etc.
Movies
Jodhaa Akbar; Born in Flames; When Fish Fall In Love; Cinema Paradiso; Show Me Love; Otesanek; Daughters of the Dust; Dancer in the Dark; Before Night Falls; The Day I Became A Woman (Marziyeh Meshkini); 28 Days Later; The Notebook; Another State of Mind; Sid and Nancy; Decline of Western Civilization; Donnie Brasco; Cry Baby; Raising Arizona; Freeway; Dead Man; Ma Vie En Rose; Legend; Labyrinth; The Fifth Element; Chocolat; Like Water For Chocolate; The Dreamlife of Angels; Salt of the Earth; The Dreamers; Repo Man; Suburbia; Velvet Goldmine; Mulholland Drive; Me Without You; Valley Girl; Dogs in Space; Dogfight; The Thing Called Love; Mildred Pierce; Ghost World; Princess Bride; Willow; Girls Just Want to Have Fun; The Shag; Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story; 10 Things I Hate About You; Go Fish; Amelie; Love, Actually; Step Up; The Holiday; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane; The Filth and The Fury; The Ring; Skeleton Key; Tank Girl; Fight Club; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Bad Education; All About My Mother; The Painted Veil; Memento; City of God; Malcolm X; Do the Right Thing; Saved!; Mad Max; The Road Warrier; Taxi Driver; Kill Bill II; Diary of a Mad Black Woman; How Stella Got Her Groove Back; The Namesake; Freedom Writers; Twilight; anything with Angelina Jolie - Gia, Foxfire, Hackers, Original Sin, Girl, Interrupted, Tomb Raider I & II, Playing by Heart, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, etc.
Television
I haven't really watched tv consistently in years, but I enjoy The Colbert Report & The Daily Show.
Books
Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan: The Martyr Who Founded RAWA - Melody Ermachild Chavis; Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi; The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley; The Well of Lonliness - Radclyffe Hall; Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson; Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur; With All Our Strength: RAWA - Anne Brodsky; Living My Life - Emma Goldman; Mother - Maxim Gorky; Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach; The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini; Thousand Pieces of Gold – Ruthanne Lum McCunn; The Red Tent - Anita Diamant; A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn; Shibboleth - Penny Rimbaud; Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown; Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston; Beloved & Son of Solomon - Toni Morrison; The Color Purple - Alice Walker; No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs - Johnny Rotten; Touching From A Distance - Deborah Curtis; Pretty in Punk - Lauraine Leblanc; SCUM Manifesto - Valerie Solanas (muahahaha); Angela Davis's Autobiography; Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg; A Taste of Power - Elaine Brown; The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath; Lies My Teacher Told Me - James Loewen; Warriors Don’t Cry – Melba Pattillo Beals; Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami; Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye - Brad Warner; Against the Stream - Noah Levine; Climbing the Mango Tree: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - Madhur Jaffrey; Kindred & Fledgling - Octavia Butler
Heroes
jonathan wadleigh; anyone who is working towards a better world where all people, all cultures, all animals, and the environment are respected and treated peacefully and justly
Sequoyah High School
Canton, GA
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: environment and drama clubs; volleyball and track teams
Who I'd like to meet: if death was not a hindrance to meeting people:
Sappho, Radclyffe Hall, Emma Goldman, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Joan of Ark, Mahatma Gandhi, Siddhartha Gautama, Meena, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, Mother Theresa, Margaret Sanger, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Phyllis Wheatly, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Octavia Butler, etc.
otherwise:
Assata Shakur, Dr. Sima Samar, members of RAWA, Aung San Suu Kyi, Arundhati Roy, Ellen, Meryl Streep, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Hilary and Bill Clinton, Stephen Colbert, Greg Mortenson, Valerie Solanas, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and all of their babies(heehee)
THIS YEAR ITS A TWO-DAY EVENT WITH MUSIC BOTH DAYS AND THE PICNIC ON SUNDAY AFTER NOON AT McCARREN PARK N12TH STREET & BEDFORD AVE IN WILLIAMSBURG BKLYN
SATURDAY AT DON PEDRO's 90 MANHATTAN AVE 5 BUX IN!
Hey there dollface(s)! Things have been pretty up and down and always exciting...so I shouldn't complain. I've been building a lot and hope to start filming in December at the latest. Hope all is well. Let's talk phone-style!
I'm going to try to fit the Chai, Ginn and Isa sock monkeys in my suitcase so I can get your input on clothes, hair, etc... oh, did you know there are Ginn and Isa sock monkies now????
aw.... if that's in response to not seeing you while i was in new york.... well... sorry! we were so busy with the bridal shower and dress fittings and whatnot. next time.... we'll make a date. i swear!
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