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Dustin

Tomorrow's trials concern me more than yesterday's triumphs.

About Me

I am a soccer fan living in Chicago saving money to travel the world with my girlfriend. We are hoping to backpack around Europe in the next couple of years. After that I would love to spend time in Lebanon, South America, Nepal and Tibet. I am a big fan of trying foods, wines and beers from all over. This world is too big to stay in one place forever.

My Interests

soccer, Chicago Fire, Indian food, socialism, wine, spoken word, vegan and vegetarian foods, books, used book stores, soccer magazines (442 and Soccer America), coffee, tea, yerba mate, art, hip hop, irish music, disc golf, microbrews (Rogue and Hinterland are my favorites), vegan ice cream, conversation, revolutionary/radical politics, street readings/performances, pomegranites, Lebanon, ales, stouts, futons, tattoos

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

The Streets, Leo the Lion, The Meters, Saul Williams, Nas, Talib Kweli, Shelter, Alexa Ray Joel, Alicia Keys, Bob Marley, Dead Prez, Common, The Last Poets, Gaelic Storm, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly

Movies:

I like dramas and foreign films for the most part. Gael Garcia Bernal, Edward Norton and Zhang Ziyi are usually really good in movies.The House of Flying Daggers, The Hero, The King, The Edukators, The Motorcycle Diaries, Jenin Jenin, Goodbye Lenin, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Lord of the Rings trilogy, 25th Hour, Scarface, Maria Full of Grace, Hotel Rwanda, Sin City, Up and Down

Television:

Coupling, The Office (BBC), BBC Nightly News, Are You Being Served?, The Daily Show, Colbert Report and whatever is on public television

Books:

I usually read non-fiction. Usually books that have to do with socialism/communism (Marxist-Leninist), the Russian revolution (revolution/activism in general) and current events. I recommend anything from Haymarket Books really. Whether its socialist tradition, history, current events or whatever you can't lose. I just finished reading Friendly Fire by Guiliana Sgrena. That was a great book. Now I am reading Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States by Sharon Smith. I won't finish that for one a while though because the new issue of the International Socialist Review just came out.

Heroes:

Karl Marx, Lenin, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Suheir Hammad, Stanley Howard, Madison Hobley, the Haymarket Martyrs, Leonard Peltier, Leon Trotsky and every person fighting for a better world.

My Blog

Corrupt (poem)

Corrupt corporations and conservative CEO's Collect cash, confiscate creative, and artistic product control at Clear channel concerts and shows, We got prophets making a profit By professing their ...
Posted by Thirsty Poet on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 04:18:00 PST

One hundred guns (Revolution and Reparations) (poem)

I got a hundred guns, a hundred clips For a hundred mourning mothers, widows, fatherless kids I have a semi-automatic that spits Guaranteed for the short term success of achieving a life long bid &nbs...
Posted by Thirsty Poet on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:11:00 PST

Haiku

Nine words for the ninth Ward, George Bush still does not care About black people
Posted by Thirsty Poet on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:59:00 PST

Hail Mary (poem)

It was originally through my union when I became convinced of the conclusion That the theory of evolution was proven Or was it during my first communion? As I recited my sixth Hail Mary and fifth Our...
Posted by Thirsty Poet on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:00:00 PST

Bigger, older and colder (poem)

Bigger, older and colder Brothers like Adibisi Buying barbiturates, building Biceps by bench pressing These boulders and barbells Habitual offenders who locked And boxed in jail cells For a lifetime ...
Posted by Thirsty Poet on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 08:59:00 PST

Traitor (poem)

No, I am not a traitorYes, I am an activistThat was me you saw holding signs In that street corner protestBut let me tell youActivists are the true patriotsBut we don't always pledge allegiance To the...
Posted by Thirsty Poet on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 08:45:00 PST