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amiko

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About Me

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My Interests

people, places, thingsoh, and thoughts, ideas, expressionyeah, and, creativity, art and music.so...basically all the goodness. i like it all. give it to me. yeah.

I'd like to meet:

"...it is not inevitable that corporations will control our lives and rule the world. We have a real possibility to shape our own futures. We have an ecological and social duty to ensure that the food that nourishes us is not a stolen harvest." -vandana shiva, "Stolen Harvest"

Television:

no

Books:

yes

Heroes:

in no particular order... nnm, the dalai lama, june jordan, jeanette winterson, ghandi, shirley temple (the actress turned humanitarian, not the drink), bjork, fritjof capra, natalie goldberg, all artists, sigourney weaver, jane goodall, adrienne rich, frida kahlo, amma, jo' mama, pippi longstocking, punky brewster, stevie nicks, sandra bernhardt, ellen degeneres (don't), pablo neruda, richard brautigan, jerri blank (a.k.a. amy sedaris), lama zopa rinpoche, galileo...to be continued or something

My Blog

what is so damn difficult...

...about writing a response paper?  seriously?  it's due in the morning and I've written a page that could have been better written by a third grader.  I mean, what the hell is going on...
Posted by amiko on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:41:00 PST

get cho geek on

I just gotta do it. I have to talk about how we, as a society/culture, enable androcentric and ethnocentric ideals to continue to remain prevalent. We are enablers. I mean, we could blame the bigots ...
Posted by amiko on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:50:00 PST

snippets and snapshots

these random partial poems spurt out like a reopened wound. totally sporadic. well, they do happen to show up when i'm trying to focus on schoolwork or listening to good music. but i feel compelled...
Posted by amiko on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 03:02:00 PST

at the phonebooth alone.

bad bar poem.rather...good bar. bad poem.scribbled as such: good whiskey on rocksbottom of the barrel poetryspins thick from borrowed sharpie love twang is a burnin' flameand i'm learnin' mean about t...
Posted by amiko on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:30:00 PST

not-really haikus

thai food take-out bag!only two millimeterspartitions from poo-------fucking alarm clock!you are seemingly harmlessi will destroy you-----vomit on my bed!my dog ate something and pukedwhile i was at s...
Posted by amiko on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:51:00 PST

829 in the a.m.

jeff goldblum stars in: The Flyi was supposed to be in classtwenty minutes agobut there's sour beer on my breathand i'm movin' kinda slow.how is it some mornings you wake up andyou somehow knowall the...
Posted by amiko on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:27:00 PST

turn this mother out

Yeah, I knew that'd get your attention. But I'm not talking about getting nasty (although it is so often a preferred topic of mine). I'm talking about social construct and saying "fuck you" to the s...
Posted by amiko on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:05:00 PST

Guatemalan melodrama from yo' mama

Hello from La Isla Flores, Guatemala!!The bus ride from Belize City to Flores, Guatemala wasn´t the worst we´ve been on but it definitely wasn´t a ride on Muni. No A-C is a big deal in this heat, I s...
Posted by amiko on Thu, 10 May 2007 07:02:00 PST

pimpled, hot and happy in Guatemala

Hello from La Isla Flores, Guatemala!!The bus ride from Belize City to Flores, Guatemala wasn´t the worst we´ve been on but it definitely wasn´t a ride on Muni. No A-C is a big deal in this heat, I s...
Posted by amiko on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:53:00 PST

bad connection, humid hotness

it's too hot to type a proper email, and the connection is iffy. Hello Everyone! (if you don't want to be on this mailing list, let me know)Things we've done thus far: -landed in Belize City, took fe...
Posted by amiko on Thu, 10 May 2007 06:44:00 PST