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Raul Belvedere

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About Me



"IF YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO BE YOURSELF, OTHER PEOPLE'LL PAY YOUR PRICE."
-John Updike

I'm put together beautifully, and here's why...
I am:
::Jouissance::
::Vegetarian::
::The benefactor of experience::
::Independent, and in control of my life::
::Passionate, yet reasonable::
::More shy than you'll ever believe::
::Assiduous in daily undertakings::
::Charismatic::
::Persistent, professional, peculiar, particular, and a myriad of other adjectives::
::Motivated::
::Fond of a number of the arts::
::Graceful, provocative, and in essence, not such a bad guy::
::Addicted to the advancement of the self::
::Intimidating, belittling, and vengeful, if needed::
::Striving to be complete::
Send me a message sometime. abcParagonxyz is my AIM name.

My Interests

Music, baseball, reading, socializing, argumentation, traveling.

I'd like to meet:



"My women have always said, 'You're so negative!' and I've looked at them and replied, 'I find reality negative.' Compared to what? Unreality. Yet for all that I have had more joy than any of them, they were positive and depressed, and I am negative and happy."
-Charles Bukowski

Music:

"Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket."
Sherman Alexie

Movies:

Zeitgeist, American Beauty, Poolhall Junkies, Thank you for Smoking, This Film is Not Yet Rated, Old Boy, The Good Shepherd, Smoke Signals, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Babel.

Television:

Passport to Europe/Latin America, Heroes, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Tudors, The Office, Scrubs, The Whitest Kids You Know, Southpark, Entourage.

Books:

A Rumor of War, Tao Te Ching, A People's History of the United States, The Great Gatsby, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Charlotte Temple, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Rabbit, Run, The Stranger, Beowulf, The Sound and the Fury, A Streetcar Named Desire, M. Butterfly, The People Look, Faust, Flow, Nickel and Dimed, 1984, A Graveyard for Lunatics, The Prince, A Prayer for America, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, Everything that Rises Must Converge, Into the Wild, The Hunger of Memory, Lives on the Boundary, Unafraid of the Dark, A Lesson Before Dying, Brave New World, The Great Unraveling.

Heroes:

"I am not like the gods - I feel it deeply now.
I am the worm that burrows in the dust
and, seeking sustenance in the dust,
is crushed and buried by a wanderer's heel."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My Blog

Cheers again, Hank!

I'll take this up as a motto of mottos. Try, people. Just try. "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And mayb...
Posted by Raul Belvedere on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:22:00 PST

Yes, Jay Mariotti, yes!

"No hockey, no NASCAR. Real sports!"-Jay Mariotti And with that, I am now officially part of the Jay Mariotti fan club, and will subscribe to the Chicago Sun Times immediately.
Posted by Raul Belvedere on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:31:00 PST

A poem for you all to consume...

- the bluebird -there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get outbut I'm to tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not goingto let anybody seeyou.there's a bluebird in my heart thatwants to get out...
Posted by Raul Belvedere on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:40:00 PST

Oh, hockey fans...

So who the hell gave hockey permission to take jabs at the NBA? Oh, and if you've seen the other hockey knee-buckler, it pokes at both feminists and the NFL. And to top it off, the Dallas Stars a...
Posted by Raul Belvedere on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:00:00 PST

Written precisely about me...

"I'm put together beautifullyBig wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teethI'm perfect piece of assLike every CalifornianSo tall I take over the street, with highbeams shining on my backA wingspa...
Posted by Raul Belvedere on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:19:00 PST

London Pictures

I've been meaning to put these up since March 21st.  Now you, my close friends, get what I promised you... Famous London telephone booth.  Thats on you, Anthony. St. Paul's Cathedral. If you...
Posted by Raul Belvedere on Wed, 10 May 2006 02:17:00 PST