cardamon coffee (philz coffee in palo alto / san francisco is good - hasty tasty in iringa is better!), cafe olla, pan dulce (esp from la plaza bakery on davis and laurel in salinas)... COMEDY as "a way to survive... [as] a weapon, a shield again fundamentalism and fanaticism..." (umberto eco) and FICTION as a way to see more clearly the reality we face,
community, creation, the creation of communities, and communities sharing in creation..... remembering that nothing is that serious... wasabi peas, chocolate graham crackers, sweet potato chips, ginger beer, caramelized onions.... going to the movies alone... riding my bike all day... leaving home in the morning with no plan other than to enjoy life... taqueria el grullense... downtown brown beer...
written correspondence (po box 656, iringa, tanzania, east africa), hangin w/ crew @ SLMG, water color painting, finger painting... making plans, keeping plans, breaking plans... lunch with marina, cigars with pops, shopping with mom... safeway with glyn, car pooling with stanford's upward bound... making complicated things laughably simple...
escaping to san francisco for hot dogs on union square... reading philosophy and showing how its really no different than what you can learn by watching chris rock or listening to alicia keys (if you pay attention)... not using capitalization... talking and learning from elders, making lists, like this one, that follow no order what so ever...[[[[thoughts on life - 55. belonging to a community, being capable of serving that community, and being held accountable to that community is a gift, not a burden. 108. work hard to resolve the issues you believe in, work harder to keep close the people that believe in you. 229. faith works.]]]]
Music
Silvio Rodriguez, Malouma, Brenda Fassie, Lucky Dube, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Marisa Monte, Tracy Chapman, Alicia Keys, Mariachi Reyna de los Angeles, Mariachi Sol de Mexico, (basically mariachi in general), BEBE, Ska-P, Adele, Los Lobos, Harmony Nights, Regina Spektor, Seal, John Forte, Wyclef Jean, John Mayer (outside of "waiting on the world to change"), Los Lonely Boys, Corinne Bailey Rae, Macy Grey, Erykah Badu (thanks to dot),
LILA DOWNS, Maria Rita, Marisa Monte, Elis Regina, Los Hernamos, Jimi Hendrix, Musiq, Alejandro Sanz, Oreja de Van Gogh, Camaron de la Isla con Paco de Lucia, Amy Winehouse, Chambao, Cafe Tacuba, Sade, Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton, George Benson, Gloria Estefan, Jose Feliciano, Manu Chao, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Outkast, Prince, Santana, Selena, Amy Winehouse, Archie Bell and the Drells, The Temptations, Aretha Franklin,
Queen Latifa, Janet Jackson, Miriam Makeba, Fulanito, Marc Anthony, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Johnny Cash, Caetano Veloso, Sam Cooke, Gipsy Kings, Juanes, John Forte, James Brown, Frankie Valli, Gilberto Piedras, Los Tri-O, Trio Los Panchos, k.d. lang, Rocio Durcal, RENT sountrack, Queen Latifa, Gilberto Piedras, Pablo Milanes, Ozomatli, Outkast, Orishas, Norah Jones, Nina Simone, Brownout, The Beach Boys, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Devdas Sountrack
Movies
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring
A Huey P. Newton Story
Deja Vu, Family Stone, Milagro Bean Field War, V for Vendetta, Earth, Fire, Water, Stand and Deliver, The Godfather II, Mi Familia, West Side Story, Lilo and Stitch, Hercules, Los Dos Lados de la Cama, Tombstone, azuloscurocasinegro, RENT, A Man and a Woman, Transformers,
Star Wars, Syriana, The Man from Snowy River, Pride and Prejudice, La Haine, Amelie, El Bola, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Big Fat Greek Wedding, Amores Perros, Scent of a Woman, Harry Potter, Good Will Hunting, Star Wars, Get on the Bus, Stand By Me, Mighty Ducks Part II, Aliens (all of them), Predator (only the first one), Alien vs. Predator, Good Night, and Good Luck, Stranger Than Fiction, The Fountain,
Television
american chopper, ugly betty, national geographic, al jazzera international news, the boondocks, fuego en la sangre
Books
saramago,
baldwin,
and allende
interpreter of maladies (lahiri), old school (wolfe), poisonwood bible (kingsolver), boondocks (mcgruder), franny and zoey (salinger), kite runner (hosseini), guerrillas (lee anderson), why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria (daniel tatum), ishmael (quinn), pedagogy of the oppressed (freire), alchemist (coelho), on being ill(woolf),
kuhn
diaz
Heroes
those who touch my heart and don't even know it.............
"the mirrors we use in life are false. The only true mirror is the heart of a human being which reflects divine light." ...
About me: i like things simple...
http://goodmorningaztlan.blogspot.com/
i am the stone that the builder refused, i am the visual, the inspiration that makes ladies sing the blues, im the spark that makes you idea bright, the same spark that lights the dark so that you can know your left from your right, im the ballad in your box, the bullet in your gun, the inner glow that lets you know to call your brother, "son", the story that's just begun, the promise of what's to come, and ima remain a soldier till the war is won. - the boondocks
Who I'd like to meet: 1- marisa monte, silvio rodriguez, miriam makeba, caetano veloso bell hooks, erika huggins, barack obama isabel allende, jose saramago, lila downs, wyclef jean........ 2- who i would have liked to have met... paulo freire, violeta parra, selena quintanilla, patrice lumumba, victor jara, james baldwin, malcolm x, huey p. newton, ernesto galarza, emiliano zapata, oscar romero and abd al-rahman I...........
3- fiction... herman hesse's siddhartha, jose saramago's "the doctor's wife", and of course, aaron mcgruder's huey freeman....... 4- my grandparents when they were 20 years old.... 5- freedom fighters from across the bay, across the state, across the nation... and around the world.... 6- an inhabitant of a parallel universe... 6- anyone with a good story to share, e.g. scheherazade.
***Que alegres son las obreras! Bailemos con ellas! Como las estrellas, hermosas y bellas!***
Hey Nico! How you doing? Damn, it's been a min. What's the latest with you? I've just been busy working and am taking some time this month to travel. Hope all is well - take care!
Hi Nico! Hope all is well!! :D i gotta say i luv your Mini powerpoint through myspace...you always have a different point of view, and it's always good to see that!! :D
Nico!!
Man oh man has it been a while!! Como as estado! Whats new man!! What kind of interesting things have been getting yourself into man!! I miss u!! We have to catch up!!
Nico i cant belive how fast time has past. I swear it was just yestetday that i meet u when you talked with your hands more than with words! " think in difrent perspectives" :) im all grown up now nico :( im going on into the joungle
Of life next fall:/ i hope i dont get eaten alive out there!!
Write back nico! I would love to hear from you!!! Ohhh
And my graduation is june 6th u should go!! Ojala que no te as olvidado de mi!!
xoxo
Nope im still a senior waiting for the day that i could get out of this place!!-yess im going to the academy of art in san francisco. Accually you have some better stuff than I will ever show you, i mean youve been to the other side of the globe!-haha. im up to no goodd...jkjk im very sick right now but im going to try to mc for my rally tomorrow, well see how that ends up!ahhh wish me luck. enough about me whats up in your intresting world...oh and no joke i found the papers that you gave us when i was in your class!-i was amazed!
NICO!-man-donde estas? I miss your face sooo much,this years upward bound so can you stop by and make it better?-dude you have to come to at LEAST the rose ceremony!!!!-ttl bru bruh!!!!
life is good now. sorry that i havent wrote back, just going through some bad times. and i dont like talking to you when im not in a good mood. but life is all good now. doing good in school. working now, dont really like it there but its a job.
Hey You! I got a new book for ya- "Keeping It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White" by Prudence Carter. She's new here at the School of Ed and is DOPE! A new Arnetha in the making...aka my new hero :) Hope all is well. Blessings *D
Hii NiiCO. iiT HAS BEEN A LONG TiiME SiiNCE ii HAVE TALKED TO YOU. WELL ii WAS JUSZ COMiiNG BY TO SEE HOW EVERYTHiiNG iiSZ GOiiNG FOR YOU. AS FOR ME SENiiOR YEAR iiSZ CRAZY.. BUT ii HOPE ALL iiSZ WELL FOR YOU AND ii MiiSZ YOU LOTSZ. ♥ERICA
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