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Ben

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me



Soneto LXXVIII

by Pablo Neruda
No tengo nunca más, no tengo siempre. En la arena
la victoria dejó sus pies perdidos.
Soy un pobre hombre dispuesto a amar a sus semejantes.
No sé quién eres. Te amo. No doy, no vendo espinas.
Alguien sabrá tal vez que no tejí coronas
sangrientas, que combatí la burla,
y que en verdad llené la pleamar de mi alma.
Yo pagué la vileza con palomas.
Yo no tengo jamás porque distinto
fui, soy, seré. Y en nombre
de mi cambiante amor proclamo la pureza.
La muerte es sólo piedra del olvido.
Te amo, beso en tu boca la alegría.
Traigamos leña. Haremos fuego en la montaña.
I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'Til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance." - Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

My Interests

Wine, women and song,
in different orders depending on my mood...

I'd like to meet:


R.I.P., Utah Phillips

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. - Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. - Jack Kerouac, On the Road

after late spring rain the falling petals swirl
weightlessly celestial scent covers my patched robe
a simple vacant mind has no place to go
resting on the peak I watch the clouds return
- Han Shan Te'-Ch'ing (Translated by Red Pine)

Music:

+ Tom Waits
+ Arcade Fire
+ Mirah
+ Leela James
+ Willie Nelson
+ Rage Against the Machine
+ Ennio Morricone
+ James Brown
+ The Clash
+ Dengue Fever
+ U2
+ Flamenco
+ The Shins
+ Mercedes Sosa
+ hip marching bands
+ Busta Ryhmes
+ Bollywood show tunes
+ 80s heavy metal
+ Billy Bragg
+ Opera
+ I'm a sentimental sucker for any old records that I grew up listening to..

Movies:

+ The Godfather
+ Princess Bride
+ Fight Club
+ Apocalypse Now
+ It's a Wonderful Life
+ the Jungle Book (60s animated)
+ Romeo and Juliet (Zeferrelli version)
+ Children of Men
+ Rashomon
+ The Mission
+ A Room with a View
+ City of Lost Children
+ Nights of Cabriria
+ The Sacrifice
+ The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
+ Jean de Florette
+ In Search of the Holy Grail
+ Vertigo
+ Taxi Driver
+ Z
+ Twelve Monkies
+ Modern Times
+ Star Wars
+ 21 Up (et.al.)
+ Dr. No
+ The Bourne shenanigans
+ The Grand Illusion
+ The Great Escape
+ Eyes Without a Face..

Television:

+ Daily Show
+ Colber(t) Repor(t)
+ the Contender
+ Lost
+ Nova..

Books:

+ The French Lieutenant's Woman
+ Sometimes a Great Notion
+ Journey to the End of the Night
+ Lolita
+ Dao De Jing
+ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
+ Crime and Punishment
+ The Stranger
+ The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
+ The Last Temptation of Christ
+ The Prophet
+ Down and Out in Paris and London
+ A Clockwork Orange
+ The Abortion
+ The Prime of Life
+ The Chicago Manual of Style..

Heroes:

+ Subcomandante Marcos
+ MLK Jr
+ Jesus H Christ
+ Pablo Neruda
+ Tom Waits
+ Chuck D
+ Nina Simone
+ Emiliano Zapata
+ Nate McMillan
+ Jean Paul Sartre
+ Simone de Beauvoir
+ Bill Moyers
+ Jesse James
+ Ralph Nader
+ Bjork
+ Zach de la Rocha
+ Rigoberta Menchu
+ Benjamin Franklin
+ Desmond Tutu
+ bank robbers..

My Blog

Fuck Rupert Murdoch

I just wanted to make sure I said that somewhere on my page.
Posted by Ben on Thu, 17 May 2007 11:17:00 PST