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About Me

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from wikipedia:
"In late 2006, Mapuche leaders threatened to sue Microsoft when the latter completed a translation of their Windows operating system into Mapudungun. They claimed that Microsoft needed permission to do so and had not sought it. [1]"
A Letter to Bill Gates from the traditional authorities of the Mapuche People.
"The Mapuche authorities and their traditional institutions are of the firm conviction that our rights to our intangible heritage such as our language, Mapudungun, spirituality and religious beliefs are the last resources that we possess and constitute the essential and fundamental basis of our identity and our collective rights which reside in our minds and our collective consciousness. However, we have observed that these rights are the object of acts of intellectual piracy...
...It is a paradox that so-called specialist, who count with the benevolence of the State, transcribe the Mapudugun and create a grammar for our millennium oral language while the Chilean education system maintains its policy of negation of the fundamental rights of Mapuche children to a culturally adequate education in their own language...
...Mapudungun is being used as a folkloric object which is added in a decorative manner to the school curriculum without allowing the development of the cultural identity of our children on the basis of a true recognition of their fundamental rights. The main beneficiaries of this project will not be the Mapuche communities who need a culturally and politically sincere support to be able to continue using and developing their own language but it will benefit persons with the distinct resources to use the informatics."

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

inti-illimani

how i would love to play like that...

Music:

my music profile

Movies:

Begone Dull Care, Norman McLaren (1949). Begone Dull Care(1949) - short animation painted directly onto the film strip.Bamboozled(2000)Le Fabuleux Destin d'AmÃ©lie Poulain(2001) - yum.Waking Life(2001)BjÃ¶rk: Volumen -Bjork!! :) or as Brad likes to call her, "the goddess."Nuovo Cinema Paradiso(1989)Before Night Falls(2000) - biography of the author/poet Reinaldo Arenas,beautifully directed by Julian Schnabel.

Television:

no thanks.

something to feel human.
chet atkins.

thanks dad.

Books:

The Prophet - Kahlil GibranOdes to Opposites - Pablo Neruda.Singing from the Well - Reinaldo ArenasZami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre LordeThe Collected Poems of Audre Lorde"ÃœL: Four Mapuche Poets" - an anthology of mapuche poetry

Heroes:

garlic, red wine, coffee.

My Blog

the height of american culture

finally:church at the mallenjoy the show! (yes, watch the video)related links:medicated americans.please feel free to add....
Posted by CJ on Tue, 27 May 2008 11:49:00 PST

do not tempt a lonely wintered heart

do nottoywith melittle flashpumpheart'signition alightdo not secretetearswhen it is dampout insidemoist fleshreflectsa sincere pairof eyesblinking dewdark jewelsfill the ductslicking flamesopen wounds...
Posted by CJ on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:17:00 PST

modern life as a series of meaningless movements

for every action there is a series of equally opposite microscopic chain reactionsthat breed into a spiral of tick motions like a ceaseless copper clock.from a spilling spot on the linoleum countertop...
Posted by CJ on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:19:00 PST

strings.

what am i supposed to do with this?a piece of string tiedto the necki'll work on developing my eari'll work my callouses until they're smoothagain a seamless part of methat night as we sat smokinglist...
Posted by CJ on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:29:00 PST

and somehow she sleeps so well...

cover your window at nightyou cover the noise with more noiseelectric fans set to fryawake to my ears in their sparkle i can see my grey lazy eyesrising like two moonsin my coffee cup but th...
Posted by CJ on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:21:00 PST

northern lines of force

comfortis a color.wildflowers,lavendermy memory blursi retrace you.softening the edges of my visionfollowing the road that curves,deep lavenderis how i imagine you.sometimes, i returnsuddenly,like a ...
Posted by CJ on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:52:00 PST

L x W x H

i want to paint in sounds. waves ~ that turn textures of color like rhythms -i want to paint something i've never heardbecause everything feels as an echoconsequent to a moment folded into o...
Posted by CJ on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:46:00 PST

i remember, and

i wish i knew how to convert all my knowledgeinto tiny details.casting shadowleaving imprints in tall grassi wish i didn't have to ruin momentsby breaking precious silenceyou create; i d...
Posted by CJ on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:30:00 PST

translation of Exiliada del Sur

here is a translation, (more or less) of this song i had postedwritten by Violeta Parra, performed by Inti-Illimani click here and listen to Exiliada del Sur.i hope you enjoy it. ..>..>..> ..> Exile ...
Posted by CJ on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 07:22:00 PST