Kami Cheatem
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | social services and the arts |
| Location | San Francisco, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a soft-spoken, progressive, music lovin', old, reclusive punk rock chick. Feel free to hang-out and listen to some tunes in my playlist, or pause the music to read, watch a vid or ponder some pictures. And ALWAYS keep your finger ready to turn up the volume and dance around your room! Leave a comment to chat if you're in the mood. Thanks for dropping by! x0x |
| Interests | Oil painting, politics and social justice, sewing, skateboarding, roller derby, comic books, movies, reading, sitting in the shade, watching surfing down at the ocean, watching sunsets and the night sky, going to art galleries--to name a few. |
| Favorite movies | Repo Man, Escape From New York, The Thing (Carpenter's 1982 version), Rock n Roll High School, Lady Snowblood, Basquiat, Life and Debt, Let The Right One In (Swedish version), Howard Zinn - You Cant Be Neutral, Shinobi - Heart Under Blade (undubbed version), Enter The Dragon, The Wings of Desire, Clearcut, Ip Man and Ip Man 2, I Need That Record!, Dance Me Outside, the Swedish versions of Larsson's Millennium series (Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc.), Fists of Fury, Smoke Signals, Skins (the American NdN film), Ichi (the Japanese film about the woman warrior -- not "Ichi The Killer"), Howl's Moving Castle, Diva, Once Were Warriors, The Orphanage, Spirited Away, The End of Poverty?, Hotel Rwanda, V for Vendetta, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Run Lola Run, Howl, East of Eden, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Mystery Science Theatre 3000 (all the Joel episodes, but not the Mike era), Consuming Kids, A Place of Our Own, The Hours, The Lost City, Snatch, A Bronx Tale, Super Session, Drugstore Cowboy, La Femme Nikita, Lucky Number Slevin, The Maltese Falcon, Broken English, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, Monster's Ball, Pulp Fiction, Waiting for Guffman, Amelie, The City of Lost Children, Sexy Beast, Wag the Dog, Snatch, Fight Club, All About Eve, The Host, Nightmare Before Christmas, Babycakes, Wild In the Streets, Sunset Boulevard, Times Square, The Godfather, Slaves of New York, The Warriors, Angelheart, Mystery Men, The Hunger, Dogtown and Zboys, Another State of Mind, Suburbia (the old punk rock movie, not the newer one), MILK, Waking Life, Sling Blade, Trick 'r Treat, My Bodyguard, Bless the Beasts and the Children, Valley Girl, Buckaroo Bonzai, Welcome to the Doll House, Whale Rider, District B13, The Matrix, Alien and Aliens, Like Water for Chocolate, Rebel Without a Cause, You Weren’t There -- A History of Chicago Punk, 1977-1984, Quadrophenia, Tank Girl, What the Bleep Do We Know, and many more. |
| Favorite music | The Screamers, Pure Hell, Xray Spex, The Dirtbombs, The Slits, The Dicks, Bush Tetras, Minutemen, Kleenex, The A-Lines, The Objex, The Dead Boys, The Voids, Buffy Sainte-Marie, The Urinals, The Freda Rente Band, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, The Gaylettes, VKTMS, Black Flag (Keith Morris era), Hey Girl!, Culture, Autistic Youth, Nat King Cole, 7 Seconds, The Membranes, JFA, The Bags (Alice Bag Band not the other one), Odetta, Thee Headcoatees, Holy Shit!, Shotwell, Hortense and Alton Ellis, Stiff Little Fingers, Teen Idles, The Baseball Furies, Electric Eels, The Ramones, Radio Birdman, Black Lodge Singers, Susan Cadogan, Can, Theo and The Skyscrapers, Mission of Burma, Ella Fitzgerald, Buzzcocks, Judy Mowatt, Patti Smith Group, The Fall, Subhumans, Los Crudos, Blackfire, Elliott Smith, Flux of Pink Indians, Penetration, The Noisettes, Nina Simone, 999, Algebra Suicide, Government Issue, Dead Kennedys, The Adolescents, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Suicide, Minor Threat, Blonde Redhead, John Trudell, The Dells, LeTigre, Lunachicks, Tony Bennett, Bobby Womack, The Pixies, Sweet, The Selecter, The Boys Next Door (Nick Cave's 1st band, not the other one), The Sonics, Donny Hathaway, Slade, Joe Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Link Ray, Suzie Quatro, Grinderman, Diamanda Galas, The Damned, Crime and The City Solution, Husker Du, Joanne Shenandoah, Cocteau Twins, Janis Joplin, Toots and the Maytals, Sam Cooke, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dick Dale, Gang of Four, Texas Terri, Frank Zappa, Thelonius Monk, Les Surfs, Dead Can Dance, Billie Holiday, Sonic Youth, New York Dolls, Professor Longhair, MDC, The Gits, Shonen Knife, Edith Piaf, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits, Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, New Model Army, Billy Bragg, The Effigies, The Pogues (with Shane), English Beat, Stevie Wonder, The Dils, Blondie, The Stooges, The Specials, The Toilet Boys, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Desmond Dekker, Fugazi, Television, Mozart, Boomtown Rats and The Runaways to name a few. |
| Favorite books | An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Cane, White Teeth, Artists in Times of War, This Bridge Called My Back -- Writings by Radical Women of Color, Healing the Soul Wound -- Counseling American Indians and Other Native Peoples, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Passing, Power Resistance and Liberation in Therapy with Survivors of Trauma, Art and Intimacy, Homo Aestheticus, Writings For a Liberation Psychology, Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Native American Postcolonial Psychology, What is Art For? Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, A Room of One's Own, Stieg Larsson's Millennium series ('Girl With the Dragon Tattoo', et al), Notes of a Native Son, A People's History of the United States, Working, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Love and Rockets, 30 Days of Night, Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, To Kill a Mockingbird, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Thru The Fire, A People's History of American Empire, Wild Seed, The Neon Wilderness, Burning in Water-Drowning in Flame, Snowcrash, Twisted Sisters, Parable of the Sower, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Working, Mrs. Dalloway, The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer, On the Road With the Ramones, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Baker Street: Honour Among Punks and Children of The Night, and many many more. |