a mix i just made for math ( Read more... )

List 7 songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs ( Read more... )

today i learned that a colleague and inspiration of mine passed away. yolanda retter was the archivist at the chicano studies research center at ucla. while notorious for being militant and sometimes abrasive, she was unfailingly dedicated to the preservation of latina lesbian history and was adamant about imbuing the archivist profession with ( Read more... )

i was somewhat in a bad mood when i wrote the last entry about being over salvador. while i definitely feel like it is time to leave, i do feel twinges of anticipatory nostalgia, if that makes sense. over the past seven weeks, i've made a niche for myself. i feel comfortable getting to where i need to in the city, my portuguese is decent, i've ( Read more... )

i am so over salvador, bahia, brasil. i love all the city has to offer in terms of music, theater, dance, food, etc. but i really can't stand being constantly harassed in the street for being 1) asian, 2) a woman, 3) foreign. i can't wait to get to são paulo where i can pass as a japanese brazilian ( Read more... )

i'm in brazil. maybe i'll write about that later. in the meantime ( Read more... )

happy international workers' day!

hope ya'll didn't caught up in the crazy police chaos in macarthur park.

i'm back on dublab with a new session of "the afternoon love in: canciones para la primavera."

check it out on the dubstream. you can see the playlist here or on my myspace page.

listen in. they're songs to make you want to fall in love.

i don't get it. i just watched the entire first season and i don't get what the hype is about. sure, there are some great one liners and the program does tap into those funny sexual and relationship idiosyncrasies that we can all relate to in some way. but there just seems to be a general undertone of "all roads must lead to marriage" which i ( Read more... )

i went to my first drive in move theater last night! i've always wanted to go to one, but never really researched it. it was super fun, though mike and i went ill-prepared. no snacks or beer or blanket, just a pillow. anyways, we saw the new tarantino film grindhouse, which is gory, violent, and contains all the usual tarantino fetishes - hot ( Read more... )