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in rare form

in with the new: liberation, green grass, red sweaters

About Me

'between serviceable truths'

"Sleeping with the Dictionary"

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time" obvious quote....

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My Interests

researching countless forms of information ... editing articles in bed, reading poetry. writing letters as gifts. music as a form of the love letter. PLANET° magazine as my gift to the world. almost anything mexican or mesican if it has anything to do with california. traveling the world but writing as a cerebral form of travel. my sisters from other mothers. talking shit as constructive criticism. having love for all things big or small. being in love for the sake of a poem. venerating the "word", any word.

I'd like to meet:

La Tostada y La Guayaba

Music:

anything victor axelrod creates...and the song "dia de mi suerte"

Movies:

Le Haine or the Hate and anything Almodovar for the incredible sense of melodrama and some smart dumbdowns: Harry and Kumar, Napoleon Dynamite, Tupac Resurrection . Ah and any movie with Gael Garcia Bernal, and did someone hear me mention Dr. Strangelove? for the obvious reasons...

Books:

unbearable lightness of being, love in the time of cholera, the god of small things, the dictionary (really), the sun also rises, krik krak, caramelo, in the time of butterflies, their eyes were watching god, anything Neruda, Garcia-Lorca, HD, Octavio Paz, Apollinaire, Mallarme, Charles Olson for Projective Verse and langauge theory, Concrete Poetry, Lisa Robertson, linda goodman's love signs (for the BBC), Rumi, Leah's collections of shorts, and the books Luke and I make at home with our own hands, hearts and minds.

Heroes:

my mom, Ghandi, MLK, Langston Hughes, Arundhati Roy, Jan Hendrix, Zadie Smith, Zora Neal Hurston, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Augusto de Campos and Satya Green.
Easy Lee

My Blog

Gabriel García Márquez

García Márquez's Shiner Ends Its 31 Years of QuietudeThe feud between the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, onetime best of friends, had all the eleme...
Posted by in rare form on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 09:14:00 PST

Five Agreements

Every time I think I'm being smart my smartass friend proves me otherwise. Thank goodness I have good friends that care. See the fifth agreement below. True enough.   ----------------- Bulletin ...
Posted by in rare form on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:16:00 PST

animal nature

work is what it is and then sometimes you get to edit pieces like this one that makes your day... an excerpt from an upcoming book on african herd migration. Lioness' rule.       The li...
Posted by in rare form on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:06:00 PST

You left me... Unattended

I find pleasure in the freedom of small things. You say strength in numbers but I can be only one. You said something in your silence. Freedom in the nature of remembering words and moments. How can w...
Posted by in rare form on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST

can't believe I'm about to declare this...

Bikram Yoga. I'm back on the wagon again. It's a life saver, peace keeper, and breath provider. http://www.bikramyoga.com/ I am especially down for Bikram LES. Good folks, good instructors, and yours ...
Posted by in rare form on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:37:00 PST

for leah...the recipe for motivational passion

the poem, the way we see it, is posted here for the one who inspires me. youth and beauty is a lovely thing but the lasting effect of inner goodness is what leaves you/ me glued. wonder twin action ha...
Posted by in rare form on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:15:00 PST

The Image of Modernity

Marina Garcia-Vasquez sets out to investigate two fundamental issues: how the remote past of a city is imagined and what part we, as spectators or engineers of the visual outcome, determine the urban ...
Posted by in rare form on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:55:00 PST

for and about LOVE

nightfall on the apt. at calle Mercaders Barcelona, Spain how time passes after waking. a bed never made, to make love in, sleep in, sweat in. we carry water through the night in pinches of recollect...
Posted by in rare form on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:53:00 PST

it's the stripes, it's the ride, it's the scent, it's the kiss

"...it's all about distance, the reach for something that never comes"and this is how i feel about everything in life right now. working in attaining...there is so much more fun in the process, in the...
Posted by in rare form on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 09:07:00 PST

my newest obsession ... or not so new

From Lisa Robertson's THE MEN:I'm making a record of the men as I know them, their hours and their currencies and their simple sex. I'll be their glamorous thing and then I won't.
Posted by in rare form on Tue, 30 May 2006 08:18:00 PST