Xochiquetzal

• Age: 27
• Gender: Female
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Zodiac Year: Monkey
• Industry: Education
• Occupation: Language Teacher / Otter of the Universe
• Location: Gotham City : Altered States : United States Minor Outlying Islands

About Me

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Interests

• Discordianism (Hail Eris!)
• History
• RAVES
• languages and linguistics
• underwater basket-weaving
• body art
• men with nice noses
• Psychology
• Mythology
• Viking Etiquette
• stationary shops
• sweets (I have the taste buds of a five year old)
• herrings
• misunderstandings
• jaywalking
• CATS! Aztec horse-riding
• photography
• flamenco
• badgers
• Nouvelle Vague homeless people
• Groucho-Marxism
• guitars (and the men who play them well)
• crumble-making
• harmonicas
• Antarctic Agriculture
• musicians
• imagination enhancers
• people who were raised by wolves
• kitten juggling
• fish teasing
• plant abusing
• pet dressing
• otters and larches are also part of my wide array of interests. FNORD!

Favorite Movies

• Anything with Johnny Depp in it
• Grindhouse
• Stranger than Fiction
• C.R.A.Z.Y.
• Citizen Kane
• Little Miss Sunshine
• 300 (THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!)
• Thank You For Smoking
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• UHF
• Waking Life
• Baby Snakes
• Fantasia
• M.A.S.H.
• High Fidelity
• Boondock Saints
• The Jerk and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (*purrs* STEVE MARTIN!) How High
• American Beauty
• Napoleon Dynamite
• The Goonies
• In The Name of The Father
• My Left Foot
• Cidade de Deus
• La Mala Educacion
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• most movies with Ben Stiller
• ALL Monty Python movies (OF COURSE!)
• This is Spinal Tap
• Full Metal Jacket
• The Last Temptation of Christ
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Lost in Translation
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• everything by Tim Burton
• Trainspotting
• Dogville
• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
• Le Huitieme Jour and many more... these are the ones that come to my mind at the moment
• but I'm a movie freak.

Favorite Music

• Not in order of appreciation: The Stray Cats
• Amy Winehouse
• Led Zeppelin
• Black Crowes
• Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
• Frank Zappa
• Tom Waits
• The Brian Setzer Orchestra
• Jeff Buckley
• The Pogues
• Propellerheads
• The Cranberries
• U2
• Aerosmith (when they still did drugs)
• Matisyahu
• Albert King
• Jeff Healey
• Thievery Corporation
• Madredeus
• Bob Marley
• Belle and Sebastian
• Radiohead
• Billie Holliday
• Jamiroquai
• Orishas
• Manu Chao
• Roy Orbison
• The Beatles
• Jimi Hendrix
• Clannad
• Loreena McKennitt
• Fleetwood Mac
• The Doors
• Janis Joplin
• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Eric Clapton
• Dead Can Dance
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
• Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Lynyrd Skynyrd
• some INXS
• A-Ha
• Depeche Mode
• The Smiths and other luminaries of 80s music
• M. Doughty
• Kula Shaker and all sorts of cool Brazilian music such as: Tom Jobim
• Vinicius de Moraes
• Cordel do Fogo Encantado
• Alceu Valenca
• Seu Jorge
• Marisa Monte
• Jorge Ben
• Djavan... Gypsy Kings
• Tori Amos
• Buena Vista Social Club-style cuban music and much more. As a failed musician I could spent the rest of my life mentioning stuff I really like here!

Favorite Books

• Reading is my life
• how am I supposed to make a list of good books here
• they're EVERYWHERE! I guess I need to give it a go
• so
• in no order of appreciation: A History of Reading (Alberto Manguel
• a must read to all you bibliophiles out there)Don Quijote by Cervantes; The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
• Memorial do Convento and others by Jose Saramago
• A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; anything by Rudy Rucker
• Neil Gaiman
• Terry Pratchett
• Kurt Vonnegut and Umberto Eco (I have high hopes if turning into Umberto Eco once I hit menopause); O Livro do Desassossego by Fernando Pessoa
• PIHKAL and TIHKAL by Ann & Alexander Shulgin
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Great Expectations by Dickens
• anything by Mark Twain and Aldous Huxley
• Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• all Allan Kardec books
• some Stephen King (I can't resist it)
• Clive Barker's Books of Blood
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
• Paul Johnson's History of Christianity
• Seize the Day by Saul Bellow and
• to end today's list
• lemme see... The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
• a must read.

Xochiquetzal's Blogs

	Blog Name	Team Members
	Pergaminhos, Palimpsestos & Alfarrábios	Atillah Bel TC