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Rudra

Mind over matter, if you don't mind it don't matter!

About Me

Into studying languages: MA in Italian, with a lot of French and Spanish along the way. Currently beginning to learn Chinese. Been to China 2 times now and LOVE IT! In the interim,I work: drive cab and other part time work in the convention business and construction. I am writng more now than ever, just got a short piece published in the Paterson Literary Review, so I'm pretty stokec on that. Sense of humor dark, dry and probably at your expense. I'll laugh at you until you can laugh at yourself.

My Interests

Literature, martial arts, playing magic the gathering, movies, breasts, food, ice cream, other people, photography, travel, languages, breasts, dogs, ants, cockroaches, sobriety, god, ghosts, the civil war, armageddon, breasts, earthquakes, food, gastronomy, Italy, Mexico, China

I'd like to meet:

James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, Mira Sorvino, Ted Kayzinski, Manuel Noriega, Rachel Ward, Saddam Hussein, The Grassy Knoll, Lone Nuts, Aliens, A duck-billed platypus, Leslie Griffith, Rita Hayworth, Robert Blake, Scott Peterson, Your mom, Jenny Craig, John Wilkes Booth, Tom Horn, You, Diego Rivera, Harry Dean Stanton, Dennis Hopper, God, Jack the Ripper, Tokyo Rose, Lenny Bruce, Robert Mitchum, I don't want to meet any lame webcam people who use myspace to sell their bs, Bukowski, Cubby Selby

Music:

music is great. i like music. not a central part of my life. my taste is eclectic and totally dated. don't ask me about any bands that have been out for less than 20 or 30 years, i won't know what you're talking about and probably won't care. that said: Stevie Wonder (Songs in the Key of Life was the soundtrack of my childhood), Ray Charles, Jim Croce, Joan Baez, Led Zeppelin, The Scorpions, Bach, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Ice-T, Too Short, Digital Underground, Rappin' 4tay, Public Enemy, Peter Gabriel, The Reverend Horton Heat, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, The Bee Gees, Ike and Tina Turner, Luca Carboni, Willie Colon, Maldita Vecindad, Los Tigres del Norte, Carol King, Bob Dylan

Movies:

Born into this, It/ll be better tomorrow, Supersize Me, Mean Streets, Apocalypse Now, American Me, Blood in blood out, Dead Presidents, Terminal City Ricochet, Napolean Dynamite, Repo Man, Raising Arizona, Oh, Brother Where art thou?, Ray, Bad Lieutenant, The Apostle, Straight Time, Jacob's Ladder, Kentucky Fried Movie, Enter the Dragon, The Warriors, The Big Sleep, The Maltese Falcon, The Shining, Requiem For A Dream, Natural Born Killers, Last Light, Incident at Oglala, Thunderheart, The Last Picture Show, The Long Riders, Zoot Suit, Boulevard Nights, Saturday Night Fever, A Bronx Tale, Convicts (Robert Duvall), Raging Bull, Enter the Dragon, Ordinary People, Deliverance, From Here To Eternity, A Fish Called Wanda, Take the Money and Run, Badlands, The Long Riders, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Out of the Past, Shadrack, True Romance, Kill Bill I & II, Penitentiary, Against the Wall, Il Postino, Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), Cyrano de Bergerac, The Starmaker (L'uomo delle stelle), Il Bidone, Paris Texas, Rebel Without a Cause, Ressurection, Heaven and Earth

Television:

Seinfeld, Law and Order, The Daily Show, The Sopranos, Curb your Enthusiasm, Oz, I'll Fly Away, The Chapelle Show Italian TV miniseries: La meglio gioventu' (The best of youth)

Books:

1421, Anything by: James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, James Crumley, Ambrose Bierce. Heart of Darkness, Andersonville, Ross Thomas, Giovanni Verga, Pirandello, Dante, Italo Svevo, Hubert Selby Jr, Bukowski, Michael Moore, Jack Black, Jack London

Heroes:

Daredevil, Ward Churchill, Santa Claus, Ken, Meyer Lansky, Buster Keaton, Dante Alighieri, Eugenio Montale, Leonard Peltier, Dennis Banks, Anna Mae Aquash, Geronimo, Ambrose Bierce, Aaron Burr, Emmett Grogan, Sitting Bull, Tom Horn, Crazy Horse, Fred Hampton, Malcolm X, Martin Sheen, Art Bell, Howard Zinn

My Blog

My 8th Sobriety Birthday

 If I manage to not drink until Sunday, I'll have 8 years sober. I have only God to thank. If it were just people in AA, I would be drunk for sure. I was thinking tonight that I like the scumbags...
Posted by Rudra on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:46:00 PST

Hi everyone!

Well, I paid $19 to get out of driving my cab today so I could get the house cleaned up for the family gathering here next week. I will be hosting the DiPrima family gathering this year, which will co...
Posted by Rudra on Sun, 04 May 2008 07:55:00 PST

The absent minded professor

Ok. I'll do it. I'll go to SFSU and get the application packet for the Teaching Credential program. I'll do it on my break tmw. They better be open. They could be closed for 4/20 pot legalization day ...
Posted by Rudra on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:00 PST

Thank you for the challenge

My goal is to eat every day and sleep inside. And not drink. Driving around this town all day. Sitting in a cafe' all evening, correcting quizzes from my students. Thinking about the Chinese teachers ...
Posted by Rudra on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:11:00 PST

End of week two at Lowell

How can you make indirect object pronouns exciting? That is the challenge this week. Was the challenge. Anyhow, all is well that ends well, says the Bard. I am happy to report that the last day of the...
Posted by Rudra on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 05:00:00 PST

Is this it?

So, I just got home. I went to Muddy’s to correct all these tests and other homework from my kids, but there was an opening for the photographer who has just had her pictures put up there; I lik...
Posted by Rudra on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 08:42:00 PST

Getting ready for school

I’m the unlikely Italian teacher. But, here goes. I have been getting ready for my biggest teaching job yet and there remains quite a bit of preparation to do. I’m going into the most pres...
Posted by Rudra on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:07:00 PST

More awesome opportunities

I always categorize these blogs as Dreams and the Supernatural because all life really is is a dream. It goes by so quickly and we have so many chances to bring joy to others and we blow most of them....
Posted by Rudra on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:37:00 PST

Why I hate Valentine’s Day

Why not? I got a card from the old Greek ladies I drive to church every Sunday. It had a $5 bill in it. They really are so sweet. Today, I ran into the cook from Original Joe's at the coffee shop on M...
Posted by Rudra on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:34:00 PST

Back in the USA

Came home one week ago. Sure, it's good to be home, but I really love China and I will be going back soon. Back to CCSF Chinese class on Tues. nights and back to Wing Chun 2 or 3 nights a week. And ba...
Posted by Rudra on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:22:00 PST