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About Me

Pardon my fatalism, but I have a real feeling that I am not going to see you for a long long time, friend. But Such is life, such is life indeed and thats part of why things are so magical when they do happen, because of their fleeting nature, the fleeting nature of all things material. Eternal yet ephemeral--ephemeral everything, coming on and on, gong back and back, eternally, nothing. You dig?

My Interests

making music, making love, travelling through the americas, reading, writing, capoeira, silence, solitude, leaves, motorcycles (though Ive never driven one), cooking Mexican food, red wine, black beer, brown booze, antifascism, buddhism, crtical theory, biccyles, internet, rhymes, crossing borders, the mafia, the fall, kissing, mishchef, crying over the beautiful, finishing notebooks, future plans, reminiscing with old friends, writing about myself...

I'd like to meet:

travellers, writers, and musicians, beautiful or ugly, man or woman, north or south, today or tomorrow...

Music:

manu chao...alfredo zitarrosa...antonio carlos jobim...sublime...johnny cash...grateful dead...ali primera...silvio rodriguez...john coltrane...bob marley...the beatles...charlie parker...lilo rios...jimi...bob dylan...bigee smalls...murga shite...los tigres del norte...lila downs...imortal technique...madera...segovia...tarrega...albeniz...bach...bo la sete...myself...los fabulosos cadillacs...daniel viglietti...chevela vargas...atahualpa yupanqui...heitor villalobos...mercedes sosa...maria elena walsh...wagner rios...eduardo mateo...miles davis...jorge cafrune

Movies:

I like mafia movies and political documentaries... I've never really been into film though

Television:

tennis

Books:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges. Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, Che Guevara, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, ALejo Carpentier, Julio Cortazar, Howard Zinn, Subcomandante Marcos, Umberto Eco, Antonio Gramsci, Trotsky, Kropotkin, Olivera, Neruda, Retamar, Twain, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, Milan Kundera, Edgar Allen Poe, Isabel Allende, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Mario Vargas Llosa, Herbert Marcuse, Miguel de Cervantes, Kafka, Octavio Paz, Carlos Fuentes, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcusse, Dan Brown, James Howard Kunstler...

Heroes:

my mom, Che Guevara, Silvio Rodriguez, my dad, honest people that trust themselves and with them other good people

My Blog

excerpt from the paraguayan stretch:

"You see, Sandino," said Rafael, "metaphor is to the poet what water is to the sea.'Everything is only a metaphor; there is only poetry,' as Norman O. Brown, Mexican/Cuban/Irish/American thought-provo...
Posted by Simon on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:16:00 PST

The Death of Prv. John OConnel

Well my name is John O’Connell, North of Boston born and raised,The baby of a family of four.I am a godly blue-blood and of patriotic waysSo when my country came knockin’ at my door,I turn...
Posted by Simon on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:55:00 PST

Tales of the brave Sandino

Tales of the brave Sandinoto Bob DylanHarp IntroOnce there was a boy who devised him a plan,To pack up a rucksack, and go become a man.He'd finished with the teachers and the university,His dog died, ...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:47:00 PST

On search for a guitar

O, guitarra michoacana!So many colors, tints tones shadesSo many woods, seasons, actions, sounds, emotionsGuitars, like women, dont just appear at your doorstep one dayOne must search patiently fo...
Posted by Simon on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:34:00 PST

The Justice of Pedro Zapeta (a song)

The Justice of Pedro ZapetaPedro Zapeta was an immigrant Mayan, Spoke Quiché and Spanish but not a word of EnglishRode to work every day on his rusty bicycleDreaming all the while, of the paths in his...
Posted by Simon on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:01:00 PST

Poem to the biggest, oldest tree in Oaxaca:

Ahuehuete, Montezuma Cypress, el Arbol del TuleO obelisk of dreams & of mother & of history,how profound are your roots in this soil of blood?Your seedling preceded Christ & Moctezuma & Cortez.Metapho...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:20:00 PST

INDIVIDUAL DECLARATION OF A HUMAN LOVE

INDIVIDUAL DECLARATION OF A HUMAN LOVEa non-binding understanding for the proliferation of our existence as one Whereas love is the purpose of existence, the reason for being,Whereas love is the holy ...
Posted by Simon on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:20:00 PST

Peace in Colombia Today

There is peace in Colombia todayLady Death rears not her face in Colombia today, and not one coffee farmer will be swindled of his fruits by the market rates. Nobody will be displaced in the departmen...
Posted by Simon on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:02:00 PST

Blessed be...

Morning Brazilian Bead MeditationBlessed be you,Blessed be me,Blessed be the errant madman talking to himself in the street.Blessed be the queer,In gender & looks,Blessed be the ear, Blesse...
Posted by Simon on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:19:00 PST

I am Manit@ Migrante,

I am Manit@ Migrante,When amongst the happy I am sad, With the lonely I am united, I am she amongst he and he amongst she, When in the Andes I speak Quechua, When amongst the sober I am a junky, When ...
Posted by Simon on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:09:00 PST