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Arielian

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About Me

cognoscenti woman of mixed waters: swim, or drown.Each day, with the passing of time, I see myself growing farther and farther from my ancestors; but it brings me closer to you.


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My Interests

radical dreamers, drawing things, making piles, swimming in the ocean, www.lowriderarte.com, open source, slippage, information exchange, knowing, understanding, and informal systems of exchange-- informalities in general. thing, thinghood, thingification, liberation of thing, I got a thing, you got a thing, everybody's got a thing. object, objecthood, self as object, objectification..you got it? It...it is important too.

I'd like to meet:

The Mascara Snake, and the Sky Children. Hopey and Maggie.

Music:

dub, punk, new wave, cumbias, femmeton, glam, hyphy ish, LA hip hop from the 90's, parliament, parliament, oh, and parliament, lola beltran, aretha, mia, santogold, slits, raintcoats, alice bag, etc, etc...i love the music my friends and family make.

Movies:

Juliet of the Spirits.

Television:

Cartoons, Pee Wee's Play House...we have a complicated relationship, but, hey, it helped raise me.

Books:

books by ladies, Audrey Lorde, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and autobiographies (esp. Autobiography of Malcolm X). east of the sun, west of the moon, the lorax, and Mike Davis. Paul Beatty's White Boy Shuffle is all I can think about right now. Love and Rockets, and Octavia Butler are all I really need.

Heroes:

more like, this is what makes me get out of bed and do things: Adrian Piper, Rigoberta, Celia, mi hermanita, mis hermanas, organic farmers, sustainable livers, my family (that's right, all of 'em), yego, in fact, the Moravia Rosenberg's are phenomenal people too, and so are my students-- all of them Yayoi Kusama Ramona,

My Blog

a small place

Antigua is beautiful. Antigua is too beautiful. Sometimes the beauty of it seems unreal. Sometimes the beauty of it seems as if it were stage sets for a play, for no real sunset could look like that; ...
Posted by Arielian on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:22:00 PST

a tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts

there is no health without sicknessno happiness without sorrowno chaos without orderno love without hate (or loneliness)....but all oppositional forces seem to clash at the same time. why is this?mayb...
Posted by Arielian on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:23:00 PST

from the gentle state of dreaming, moons, and signs...

so, this is what the inter-guru said:How You Approach Life and How You Appear To Others Modest, unobtrusive, and often rather quiet or shy, you are a person who is content to be in the background or...
Posted by Arielian on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:26:00 PST

for your eyes only, a.k.a. watch this now!

mycelia rule....
Posted by Arielian on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:21:00 PST

Adrian Piper on Ariel Roman, Ariel Roman on Adrian Piper

I've supposedly been working on my senior show this week. Supposedly is the correct word, only because my time has been hijacked by the four other shows, one website, and two papers I am currently wor...
Posted by Arielian on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:43:00 PST

The Six Settings of a Tourist Continuum: Front to Back

Stage OneFrontal region: kind of social space tourists try to overcome, or get behindStage TwoA touristic front region that has been decorated to appear, in some of its particulars, like a back region...
Posted by Arielian on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 11:51:00 PST

Cease!! Decist!!

No longer can I be lost in this jungle of houses. No more can I mindlessly meander through the malls. There is nothing for me here. I must go now; back to rolling hills, Thai breakfast, and kite-bikin...
Posted by Arielian on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 04:05:00 PST

Um, ha ha!

I just saw a picture of someone with tribal cateyes on their lower back. Hope they paid tons of money for that one. What a winner.
Posted by Arielian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Rainbow Throw-Up

I drove through a rainbow today. North on the 101 at Topanga...thats where the rainbow ends. And there was no pot of gold. Maybe next time.
Posted by Arielian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fun in the emergency room

This morning, I had to take my roommate to the emergency room, and I ended up waiting there for about four and a half hours. During that time, I made friends with a rather haggard looking old man who...
Posted by Arielian on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST