Ron - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Sweet, sometimes shy guy, always up for a laugh, sarcastic humor and profound discussions about philosophy, history, literature...anything controversial, unusual or interesting. I've been living in Istanbul, Turkey for the past three and a half years; taking the last few courses to finish my degree and get certified to teach. This will go on forever I think. :P Love Istanbul but not the cultural isolation I sometimes feel. Still working hopelessly to learn Turkish. :P Like to meet friends locally or internationally. As long as you have something to talk about and aren't cooler than God I'm sure we'll get along. ;) for pics go to:http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/teachinggypsy/my_photos

My Interests

History, philosophy, writing, politics, travel, amateur (very) photography, music, astrology...appreciation for anything artistic or imaginative.

I'd like to meet:

Friends

Music:

Anything from Bach to the Buzzcocks...been on a Joy Division kick lately, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, The Killers, Dido, The Cranberries...partial to New Wave (Depeche Mode, The Smiths, etc.)...occasionally rip out to Marilyn Manson and Tool. Also LOVE Tori Amos, pity she's taken. :P Kinda stay away from pretentious indie types though..lol

Movies:

I have SERIOUS multiple personality disorder here. Great Expectations, Saw (Hitchcock does a slasher film) The English Patient, love dark German cinema, sometimes Pedro Almodovar if I'm in the mood...and LOVE the Farelly Brothers...all their stuff is biographical for me! :D Crash, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, loved Danny the Dog :D 21 grams...it's sort of pointless to endlessly list films, isn't it?

Television:

Don't really like watching television when I'm in the States, but here I'm addicted to what little good television there is. I watch Desperate Housewives (hot 30-something women, woohoo!), the OC (to give you a sense of my emotional maturity), Without a Trace, old X Files and ER reruns....helllp! Okay, I'm starved to listen to native English speakers. :)

Books:

Read a lot of history and politics for the major in college I'm finishing; really like that stuff. Most recent novel I read was the Da Vinci Code. Like short stories (Alice Munro, Raymond Carver, etc.) hmmm...Snow Falling on Cedars, The English Patient, The Dream of Scipio, The Things They Carried by Tim O' Brien, A Many Splendored Thing, A Passage to India, Straight Man, The Iliad, Democracy in America, The Mulberry Empire...

Heroes:

Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, the Dalai Lama, Chez Guevara, the French Resistance, anyone who has stood up to the Bush Administration...

My Blog

Your Misery

the only thing to keep me company these daysare my cigarettes and the cathode raysas I pace these ceramic floorsfrom room to room in search of something elusive when you risein scowling irritation and...
Posted by Ron on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:24:00 PST

once more

wave after wave of youcrashes down upon mein this patient houri savor the delicious miseryand ponder the passing of another dream i'll never haveand the stone i'll soon become
Posted by Ron on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:48:00 PST

Disaster

I watched you from a distance as you shook and rocked the foundations of the small world you knew and despite every voice screaming not to give in, I gave in like a deaf child crossing busy lan...
Posted by Ron on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:19:00 PST

Destiny

One more risk This once more, daunting time Will be it Standing, longing Bruised and scraped Beckoned by the beautiful scene Along this inviting precipice Soothed by that blissful Embryonic Pool Awai...
Posted by Ron on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:23:00 PST

Terrific News

Well, on my way to somewhere in the middle of Anatolia today (formally known as Atasehir) for a job interview, my boss/colonel/the head of the foreign languages department at Kuleli Askeri Lisesi...
Posted by Ron on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:13:00 PST

Sting, Rodin, Fatih University and Depeche Mode

So this is truly beginning to look like a fallow field, this blog of mine. It so keenly reeks of neglect, don't you think? Since last bothering with it I've gone to see Sting, visited a pe...
Posted by Ron on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:12:00 PST

In other news...

*Yawn* I woke up at 3AM after my cat decided it was time for a furious fur-cleaning and furniture-scratching session. I suppose the prodigious amount of coffee I've been drinking the past ...
Posted by Ron on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:26:00 PST

Archives...

I removed a few blog entries after I noticed that things had become horribly maudlin and SERIOUSLY personal. I mean, there's only so much whining and so much information you want to share with p...
Posted by Ron on Wed, 31 May 2006 02:00:00 PST

A Dangerous and Exciting Country

Friends and family will ask me often if I ever feel threatened here in Turkey, since it is such a "dangerous" country and I'm an American in a land chock full of Muslims (a.k.a. terrorists). I r...
Posted by Ron on Tue, 30 May 2006 02:56:00 PST

The Strangest Apartment

I officially have the world's strangest apartment. Today I took a nap in the bedroom and awoke around 4pm roasting like the proverbial pink animal known for its sweet, delicious meat but unsavor...
Posted by Ron on Wed, 24 May 2006 08:37:00 PST