Always:Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Lovie Austin, Etta, Eartha, Bessie, Rickie Lee Jones, oh and Led Zeppelin. and T. Rex.
Lately: Beirut, Emilie Simone, M Ward, Regina Spektor, Peggy Honeywell, Andrew Bird, Modest Mouse, The Knux, Celebration, Nervous Cabaret, Caetano Veloso, Kitchen Syncopaters, Lhasa, Mala Rodriguez, Coco Rosey, Amalia, Jenny Lewis, El radio Fantastique, Juana Molina, Inkwell Rhythm makers, Hamza el Din, Calexico, Omara Portuondo and posse. oh, and Jolie Holland.
And then there's: Shana Falana, Campfire Songs with Micha and Leighton, Pale Horse, Soren Grey (esp. the early years), Rube Waddell, the AsIs Brass Band, Extra Action!, Cohen, Taryn, the Knittles and all what hailed from Starcleaners, Gooferman, Breakfast, TV on the Radio, the Loyd Family Players, Venus in Spurs...Vermillion Lies have my heart
Fishbone, Public Enemy, Prince, PJ Harvey, Mingus, Beck, Bjork and Catpower have all had their way with me. and well, Janis Joplin. she died the night I was born...I always felt...connected.
RIP Alice Coltrane
Movies
Wong Kar wai, Old Boy, Days of Heaven, Gadgo Dila, Exiles, Chinatown, Network, Elevator to the Gallows, Four Minutes, Manufactured Landscapes...all things Buster Keaton, all things Almodovar, all things Coen Bros., Amelie, Cotton Club, Chicago, the Night they Raided Minsky's, Cabaret, Hedwig, Velvet Goldmine...I like to watch Marlene Dietrich, and Romain Duris...the Last Unicorn, Never Ending Story, Paper Moon
Television
if I don't have it, I don't miss it a pinch. right now I don't have it....okay, hulu.com is my friend
Books
the Hummingbird's Daughter, a history of love......zadie smith rocks. Johnathan Safran Foer. rip Octavia Butler. ooh! I just re-discovered my love for Julie Doucet...dirty plotte. nabokov and guy de maupassant
About me: I
will
not die
an unlived life
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible,
to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch,
a promise.
I choose
to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me
as seed goes to the next as
blossom,
and that which came to me as
blossom
goes on as fruit.
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hola señorita Blue! .. que tal todo? .. y la pequeña? ... espero que te sigues con la fuerza que ya tienes dentro para disfrutar la vida con gracia, encanto, y amor .. un abrazo! *
miss you too!!! i want us all to be creating/performing together- sometime it will happen! javi and i made the stuffed boombox for his show last weekend. kisses to you and lula!!!
