I Like Things

Visually appealing pictures of motion… (Favorite TV Shows and Movies)

30 Rock, (500) Days of Summer, Across the Universe, Aladdin, Black Lagoon, Coraline, Cowboy Bebop, The Dark Knight, Donnie Darko, Elf, Escaflowne, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Family Guy, Fight Club, Final Fantasy VII:  Advent Children, Finding Nemo, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Forrest Gump, Futurama, Garden State, High Fidelity, Howl’s Moving Castle, I <3 Huckabees, Indiana Jones (excluding The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull), Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Pete and Pete, Princess Mononoke, The Pursuit of Happyness, Oceans Eleven, Office Space, Seinfeld, Spirited Away, Stranger Than Fiction, Super Troopers, Star Wars series, That Thing You Do, Trigun, TRON: Legacy, The Truman Show, The Visitor, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

I am currently viewing: Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations

People (and Robots) who have pleased my sense of hearing… (Favorite Music)

Animal Collective, The Beatles, Blink 182, Bon Iver, Brand New, Bright Eyes, The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Daft Punk, Damien Rice, The Early November, Five Times August, Fleet Foxes, Frank Sinatra, George Gershwin, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Jesse Harris, Jimmy Eat World, John Mayer, Jon Brion, Kanye West, KiD CuDi, Leonard Bernstein, Lupe Fiasco, M83, Maroon 5, The Mars Volta, Matthew Pryor, MGMT, Muse, N*E*R*D, The New Amsterdams, Nobuo Uematsu, The Postal Service, Rush, Saves the Day, Straylight Run, Sufjan Stevens, Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, Weezer…

And of course the undeniably great and catchy, The Get Up Kids

I am currently listening to: The Get Up Kids – These Are Rules

Words of wisdom and pictures of provoking thought… (Favorite Books)

Antoine de Saint Exupéry (The Little Prince), Chuck Palahniuk (Choke, Diary, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Rant, Survivor), Cynthia Rylant (God Went to Beauty School), Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha), Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird), Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet In Heaven), and everything from Bill Watterson (especially Calvin and Hobbes)

I am currently reading: George Orwell – 1984

Activities to prove to the world that I have a life…

Chillaxin’, being awesome, Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee Golf, Magic the Gathering (oh wait…), music performance, teaching percussion, music composition, Texas Hold ‘Em poker, reading, writing, photography.

I am currently: Rehearsing and performing with Minnesota Brass Inc.

Well, I’ve told you a bit about myself. Enjoy my life.

-Love, Latana