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gabito

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

boxers.

My Interests

people who are more interest-ED than interest-ING

I'd like to meet:

mr. ecko (but he's dead now so i'll probably never get the opportunity).

Music:

i'm on a stax records and motown kick at the moment. also: broken social scene, feist, ray lamontagne, spoon, death cab, richard swift, interpol, manu chau and radio bemba, belle & sebastian, magic numbers, bloc party, the dears, bowie, beatles, bruce springsteen, neil diamond, band of bees,arcade fire, doves, nico vega, plebz, holly palmer, gomez, led zep, beatles, stones (of course), the go team, postal service, wilco, billy bragg, franz ferdie, gorillaz, brothers and sisters, british sea power, joy zipper, joe purdy, jay nash, pedestrian, josh radin, supergrass. god bless KCRW.currently on repeat: toots and the maytals

Movies:

kiss kiss bang, the life aquatic, bang, good night and good luck, hero, princess bride, heat, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, march of the penguins, crash, stripes, thin red line, strangebrew, grease, bad news bears (original), 48 hours, dangerous liasons, willy wonka (original), galaxy quest, blazing saddles and i know i'm forgetting a whole bunch more...

Television:

LOST, Rome, and the nerd channels

Books:

shogun, catch-22, memoirs of a geisha, A.H.W.O.S.G., fundamentals of thought, the fountainhead, the great gatsby, ship of gold in the deep blue sea, public enemies, anything by david sedaris, 2001, 1984 and national geographic.

Heroes:

Crunk is dead. Somebody tell Lil Jon.

My Blog

Rome 2: La Dolce Vita and the Ass of God

Rome, Italylocal time: 21:00ish i woke with a start to an odd sounding italian phone ringer in my hotel room at about 6:15. rumor had it that the sistine chappel opens at 7am and if you don't get the...
Posted by gabito on Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:52:00 PST

highs and lows...

Naples, Italylocal time: no clue i am writing to you now from quite possibly the dirtiest city in the civilized world. it has all the charm that new york would if the Russians had won the cold war and...
Posted by gabito on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:20:00 PST

Dubrovnik: Jewel of the Adriatic

Dubrovnik, Croatia Local Time: 20:02 (thats like... uuhhh... 8pm)   first of all... i'd like to take a moment to use all these random-ass keys that i've never seen: è ~ a æ and my personal favor...
Posted by gabito on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:11:00 PST

Kosovo: The Hotel California of Europe

"you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"                         ...
Posted by gabito on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:30:00 PST

adventures in a war zone

Pristina, Kosovo Local Time: midnight i had less than 24 hours in Rome before grabbing another flight east. in my first brief exposure to the ancient city... all stories and stereotypes i've heard app...
Posted by gabito on Sat, 20 Aug 2005 11:23:00 PST

breakin' it all down

one of the few pieces of SPAM that have actually shifted my worldview a little... it's a little surprising really. check it out: If the population of the Earth was reduced to that of a small t...
Posted by gabito on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:14:00 PST