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Richie

I still care about all the things you used to.

About Me

Favourite Foods:Well prepared Tofu,Tofutti cuties, Gelato, Broccoli, Bananas, Wholemeal Pasta, Som Tum and Thaifood in general.Kumera.Favourite Drinks:Water. Protein Shakes.Juego de pomelo.Favourite Pasttimes: Training Muay Thai.Working Out. Running. Reading. Going to the Movies with Talei and eating icecreams. Talking shit with my boys.Seeing inspiring hardcore shows.Dislikes and Hatereds:Smoking. Neo-liberalism. The United States Government. Racism. Sexism. Classism. Homphobia. Obesity. Laziness. Advertising. When people bring thier babies to the movies. Failing. Losing. Death.Silverbeet. The majority of multinational corporations. Fox Media. Rupert Murdoch. Drug Use. Injustice. The fact Im a poor speller despite having spent a bunch on a university education. Being late.Letting other people down. Letting myself down.Check out this old video I was in...ha ha ha classic! Hardest $100 I ever earned!

My Interests

My awesome fiance Talei, Fighting,Muay Thai, trying to be a better person and improve myself, my friends, travelling to all corners of the world,walking with music in my headphones, sunny days,Spanish language, learning,vegeterianisim, politics, social justice, being angry, anaylizing myself, making mistakes AND learning from them. Making mistakes and not learning from them sucks.

I'd like to meet:

Dave Chapelle. Other than that I DO NOT WANT to meet you if you are; pouting, dressed in your underwear in your photos, showing excessive clevage, posing like you're a stripper. Ladies, acting like you're a ho does nothing for peoples image of you. Read some books, please.

Music:

Lately: Anti-Flag-Bright Lights of America Suicide File-Some Mistakes You Never Stop Paying For Pharoe Monch-Desire Mobb Deep-Amerikas Nightmare Nueva Etica-Inquelbrantable Machine Head-The Blackening The Bouncing Souls:The Gold Record Thrice: The Alchemy Index I-IV The Bled: Silent Treatment Dead Poetic-Vices Down Krs-1 and Marley Marl-Hip-Hop Lives Darkest Houe-Deliver Us Death Cab for Cutie-Transatlanticism The Warriors-Beyond The Noise Dizzy Rascal-Maths and English Ice Pick-Violent Ephiany City and Colour-Bring Me Your Love 12 Tribes-Midwest Pandemic Lupee Fiasco-Food and Liquor Good Riddence-My republic Sick Of It All-Death to Tyrants

Movies:

Viva Zapata!Maquillaopolis,Life and Debt, Machuca,Black Gold, Stranger than Ficton, Transformers, The Fourth World War,Dave Chappelle's Bloc Party! Fast Food Nation,Favala Rising,Tsotsi, Twilight Samurai, Samsara,Lord Of War, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Seven Samuarai,Broken Flowers, The Wedding Crashers!! Sin City, Rize, Amore Perros, Coach Carter (Yeah it's cheesy but I don't give a fuck),Bad Education,Ray, Sideways, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Chopper, The Castle, American History X, La Haine,Good Will Hunting, In the Bedroom, Y Tu Mama Tambien,The Motorcycle Diaries,Baraka, The Crime of Padre Amaro, Alfie, The Aliens series...funny stupid shit with guys like Adam Sandler and Vince Vaugn in it.

Television:

"The deceived masses are today captivated...they insist on the very ideology which enslaves them...To be pleased means to say yes...The Liberation which amuesment promises is freedom from thought..."

Books:

Visit these WEBSITES:http://www.msmagazine.comhttp://www.oneangrygirl.ne t/antiporn.htmlhttp://www.adbusters.org/home/There is so much for us to unlearn and by doing so progress as better humans (thanks Snapcase R.I.P).You might like these books: John Pilger-Freedom Next Time Pornified-Pamela Paul A centuary of American Regime Change," Female Chauvinsit Pigs", by Ariel Levy, A million Little Peices", "My freind Leonard"-James Frey, "The memory of Running"-Ron McLarty; Rohinton Minstry (sp!?) wrote this awesome book called "A Fine Balance", great, but it depressed the shit out of me. Other authors I really love and can think of right now would be Chuck Phalnuick,Charles Bukowski, Irvine Welsh, Ben Elton, The Dalai Lama, Hunter S Thompson, some Ernest Hemmingway , George Orwell. Milan Kundras "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". I'm not as well read as I'd like to be...

Heroes:

My friends-they are ALL talented and inspiring. Robert Fisk,Robert Jenson, Noam Chomsky, Optimus Prime.Floyd Mayweather Junior. Buakaw Porpramuk.Yodsanklai Fairtex. Special Mentions to my Grand Father R.I.P, My thaiboxing trainer-John Conway, my Mum, and my Dad, and Hugo Chavez.

My Blog

Ralph the Homeless Guy

Ralph is a homless guy who at present is living in the park opposite my house. Ralph is missing the majority of one of his hips and is stuck in a wheel chair because there is a long list for hip ope...
Posted by Richie on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:07:00 PST

An anecodate about the effects of capitalism

I am studying at University in Chile at the moment. I am based in the costal town of Valparaíso. Its a quaint place, lively and fishing has been a key part of the local economy for a long time. As a v...
Posted by Richie on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:03:00 PST

This Is Not For You (Or I Miss My Friends)

Travelling through South America, you meet a lot of other travellers. Rarely, I meet some great people, idealists, dreamers, escapists, artists, learners, teachers.  More often I meet people who ...
Posted by Richie on Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:32:00 PST

Toothpaste and shoes.

So I went to buy groceries the other day and was blowin away the phenomenal amount of toothpaste options you are presented with. It's ludicrous. I didn't know what I wanted to battle, tarter, or plaqu...
Posted by Richie on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 06:39:00 PST

What I learned today.

18000 children a day die of starvation. At least 850 million people are living in starvation or on a starvation diet. It would cost only $30 US dollars  a year to feed one of these people. I feel...
Posted by Richie on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:56:00 PST

Modern life is war

Why does it seem that for the average guy it's so hard to get ahead? It's like the system wants you to fail; It sounds far fetched to many but I'm sure there is an orchastrated system that keeps peopl...
Posted by Richie on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 06:12:00 PST

Guilty of being white.

Isn't it callous that the countries calling the loudest for an end to "terrorisim" and conflict throughout the globe are the ones that proivde the tools for the killing and horror we see splashed acro...
Posted by Richie on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:06:00 PST

Ramblings.

Dave Chappelle's block party, see it. So positive, so many good times, lots of heart and beauty, not to mention killer jokes...he can go all day! Pimpalicious..I love him. Also I went running yesterd...
Posted by Richie on Sun, 07 May 2006 10:01:00 PST

What's up with...

...the proliferation of all this  punk/hardcore/straightedge themed porn like burning angel and suicide girls.....that shit ain't cool.  For me the music around those scenes has always ...
Posted by Richie on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 12:06:00 PST

Hater of the year

Sometimes I worry I am becoming hater of the year. Buck Mcnasty ain't got shit on me.  Soon I will be a bitter old judgemental cunt if I'm not careful. Or am I one already?
Posted by Richie on Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:30:00 PST