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Esqueleto

DO SOMETHING GODAMNIT!

About Me

I am Portuguese, and religious in various ways, and a very enthusiastic hiker that loves the Santa Clara Valley and the Diablo Range. I am an activist, and am currently working to save Coyote Valley from development, and to get more funds to Katrina victims in a national effort called the Gulf Coast Civic Works Project. I am also growing food for the first time this year, and I'm proud of that.

My Interests

Something to do with candles and political kung-fu. Also, an inordinate amount of navel-gazing.
Adbusters.org
Crimethinc.com
Democracy Now!
Noam Chomsky
Counterpunch.org
Parecon

I'd like to meet:

Somebody with a lot of land with good water that they'll let me live on until I die when I'm an old man. I'll raise goats and chickens and grow vegetables, it'll be a sweet deal!

Movies:

THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA, MANUFACTURING CONSENT, Paradise Now, Harold and Maude, Le Roi de Coeur, Life is Beautiful, Cool Hand Luke, Dead Poet's Society, Fried Green Tomatoes, Amores Perros, Triplets of Belleville, Pippi Longstocking, Donnie Darko, THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, Venezuela Boliviarana, SURPLUS, The Corporation, Sir, No Sir!, My Girl, SOILENT GREEN in case you've forgotten

Television:

none

Books:


TO A GOD UNKNOWN, of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), Desolation Angels and On the Road(Jack Kerouac), LE PETIT PRINCE, CATCH-22, Where the Red Fern Grows :), Lord of the Rings, PERFUME by Patrick Suskind, Candide, The Power and the Glory, Huckleberry Finn, Herman Hesse in general, Sartre, Hemmingway, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Jack London (yeah I'm a guy), PAUL AUSTEN, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Bell Hooks, Kurk Vonnegut, Jr., NOAM CHOMSKY, Cornel West, Kalle Lasn, Confessions of an Economic Hitman,

Heroes:

Joseph from To a God Unknown, Jack Kerouac (the way he sounded the first time I read him, not pretentious), and most people I know who struggle and who are so cool and beautiful. Both Narcissus and Goldmun from Herman Hesse's book. Oh... my sisters.

My Blog

Night

Here this!There is a terrifying momentum behind our lives. It pushes from the inside out. Industrial, Economic, Hegemonic, Social, Psychological systems have overgrown. Anxiety, Apathy, Nihilism are e...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:18:00 PST

Students grow community garden in downtown S.J.

Read the articleFresh-tilled soil teeming with newly planted organic seeds of zucchini, peppers, corn and green beans began growing beneath the earth-toned sandals of Mark Anthony Medeiros as he and o...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 03:57:00 PST

This Blog business

Privacy is important, and I haven't been respecting the importance of keeping your inner life your own. I'm beginning the process of taking everything off of here, so read it while you can!
Posted by Mark on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:10:00 PST

Night

I feel you with me all the time
Posted by Mark on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:23:00 PST

The Spring of 2007

Anybody who knows me knows that I've been focused on particular things lately. The winter was a slow one. Dead things dropped off all around me and I walked alone through the grass. For awhile no rai...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:20:00 PST

Tonight

Is it spring time?I've seen a pretty flower.
Posted by Mark on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:38:00 PST

I'm serious

look at me Im so seriousMy ass burns a whole through the seat because I'm so serious.Anyway so Im gardening now. I made a flyer that said, "Let me garden in your backyard" and got a bunch of response ...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:49:00 PST

Blackbird

Andorinha de asa negra aonde vais ? Que andas a voar tão alta Leva-me ao céu contigo, vá Qu´eu lá de cima digo adeus ao meu amor Ó Andorinha da Primavera Ai quem me dera também voar Que bom que era Ó ...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:49:00 PST

Direction

The South: I want to know you. I went to Fremont Peak on a full moon and thanked the mountain for being there. Mountains don't talk back to you. It was very very cold and I was all alone, and the moon...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

On politics

We shouldn't talk about things so esoterically"Esoterically" means that what you say would only make sense to a small minority of people who know the kind of words that you use.Is that democratic and ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:21:00 PST