eriko

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About me

Gender Female
Location Santa Barbara, California, United States
Interests hiking, travel, outdoors, food, wine, pets, cats, dogs, language study, cooking, patisserie, scuba diving, home improvement, entertaining, world music, art history, sushi, bocce ball, reading, picking fruit, gardens, scrabble, cards, karaoke, anime, foreign & independent film, maps, beaches, s. american literature, tropical fruit
Favorite Movies como agua para chocolate, cinema paradiso, a room w/a view, kama sutra: a tale of love, the piano, monty python -meaning of life, tampopo, la vita e bella, black orpheus, raise the red lantern, indochine, scent of green papaya, zentropa, sex lies & videotape, the piano, the english patient, big night, el norte, the constant gardener, the pillow book, nueve reinas, galaxy express 999, orlando, lost in translation...
Favorite Music los amigos invisibles, crazy ken band, paris combo, manu chao, groove armada, massilia sound system, pino daniele, paolo conte, cubanismo, antonio carlos jobim (pretty much anything brasilian), byron lee & the dragonaires, jill scott, kassav, perez prado, fausto, thievery corp, madeleine peyroux, m, lila downs, erykah badu, joni mitchell, carmen mcrae, andre 3000, edith piaf, django reinhardt....
Favorite Books love in the time of cholera, the alchemist, the unbearable lightness of being, box man, LOTR trilogy, to kill a mockingbird, the illustrated man, the nanny diaries, tale of the heike, in the time of the butterflies, the crying of lot 49, a clockwork orange, the little prince, the handmaids tale, the sheltering sky, the heart is a lonely hunter, classics II by donna hay, alfred portale's gotham bar & grill cookbook ...

You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?

Japanese 'geta', of course!