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Ben

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About Me

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I consider myself a citizen of the world. I have two passports and speak two languages fluently. I have been to four continents and nineteen countries. I got a TEFL certification to facilitate more traveling. Now if I could only find the time. I love my Family. I like living. I don't like phoney's. I like Eggs Benny.

My Interests

Exploring the far reaches of the human soul. Travel and Transnationalism. Philosophy. Life. Biking around NYC. Reinventing myself. Experience. Communism. Cheesy lines and bad jokes. Death. The rise, and the inevitable fall of World Powers. Walking long distances to places I've never been before. Capitalism. Being absolutely ridiculous. Love. Self improvement.

I'd like to meet:

Beautiful people with good hearts and open minds. People I've lost contact with that I should never have lost contact with. Travelers and vagabonds. Maybe you?

Music:

Frank Zappa, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, George Thorogood, Gang of Four, Of Montreal, Old Crow Medicine Show, They Might Be Giants, Dresden Dolls, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Blues Brothers, Beck, Amadou and Miriam, Cannonball Adderley, Mingus, Bird Parker, The Easy Tease, Max Z-T, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, John Brown's Body, the Slackers, Johny Cash, The Specials, Manu Chao, Mano Negra, No Doubt, George Clinton, Operation Ivy, Rancid, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Pink Floyd, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Zili Misik, Toots and the Maytals, Tom Waits, Talking Heads, Screeching Weasel, the Roots, Shakira, Queen, Belle and Sebastian, Gogol Bordello

Movies:

The Adventures of Baron Von Munchhausen, The Blues Brothers, Waking Life, Batman, Ghost Dog, From Dusk til Dawn, Dead and Rotting, Kontroll, Point Break, PCU, The Big Lebowski, BANG!, the Legend of Ron Burgandy, Russian Dolls, Pan's Labyrinth, I'm sure there's others... like Boondock Saints. The Namesake was pretty good, too.

Television:

I don't own one.

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Phillip K. Dick, Jack Kerouac, William S. Borroughs, Jhumpa Lahiri, One Flew over the Cockoos Nest, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Siddhartha, Ender's Game, The Hitchhiker's Guide Trilogy, The Twilight of American Culture, Everything You Know is Wrong, A.H.W.O.S.G., Tao Te Ching, Ktaadn and the Maine Woods, Master and Margarita, Snow, Things Fall Apart, Me talk Pretty One Day, Death of Somoza, Ernest Hemingway, the Flamingo's Smile, Walt Whitman

Heroes:

Your mother, and mothers in general.

My Blog

Argentina, wine, steak and summer in January

Ok, so here I am in Bariliche, Argentina with mis padres and it´s been pretty cool. I kept on thinking of things that I could write about to ya´ll while I was camping out in Patagonia, but now I forgo...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:04:00 PST

for those of you that missed it

the UMASS Boston Jazz Band played in the Snowden Auditorium Mae 9th (get it?! Mae?!?). it was lots of fun, the last time I'll play Jazz at UMB. There was a lot of energy at that show, for real.you can...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 16 May 2006 12:33:00 PST

probably pretty cheesy

What is the point of it all, it all being life?!? I've been working on figuring out an answer for that ever since I was a young boy walking home from M.L. Burbank Elementary. I distinctively remember ...
Posted by Ben on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:12:00 PST

Montezuma´s Revenge

So, last night I went out on the town, had a few too many, as is customary in Mexico when going out at night, and a gringo, like me. It was about 1 oclock, and I was starving, with Jamil and Chris, so...
Posted by Ben on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:32:00 PST