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c h a d

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About Me

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral staircases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him a s a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories.
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

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My Interests

http://www.commondreams.org/
Baghdad Burning - Girl Blog from Iraq

I'd like to meet:

the beloved

Music:

Gamelan - Central Javanese, Cirebonese, some Sundanese and Balinese. John Cage, Arvo Part, Rzewski, etc.. magnetic fields, siouxsie, the cure, depeche mode, joy division, bauhaus, the postal service, portishead, tricky, christian death, tori amos, etc...

Movies:

good morning (directed by Ozu), y tu mama tambien, wings of desire, angels in america, billy elliot, gattaca, jacob's ladder, great expectations, brazil, labrynth, neverending story, the others, etc...

Television:

i don't watch television.

Books:

Light on Yoga, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The God of Small Things, Invisible Cities

Heroes:

my beautiful sister and her two little arabs!

...and this guy:

My Blog

death is a strange companion

Bob Brown has passed away. This probably does not mean much of anything to anyone who may be reading this, but he was a very important person in my life. He led the Cultural Tour to Indonesia that I...
Posted by c h a d on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 02:40:00 PST

s l o w l y

slowly i take the moths from your hair nestled closely to your scalp where they once had a home my moths must wander once again with me to a new home but time is a necessity and one by one i mus...
Posted by c h a d on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:54:00 PST

in chicago it's raining

after a few weeks in beautiful santa fe, I am now back in Chicago, and the rain is with me in my reminiscent state. I don't know how I feel now, a bit melancholy I think would be an appropriate descr...
Posted by c h a d on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

it's cold outside

winter in Chicago definately leaves something to be desired. it's cold outside piles of snow mixing with the sludge of the city. the pains of the cold tear at my fingers and I wish for a warmer plac...
Posted by c h a d on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

desires are already memories

another day has gone by. why is it that no matter what i do, i always feel so disconnected. removed. i like the friends i have made, but it seems that there is a space, that I just can't seem to gr...
Posted by c h a d on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

gucci...

The other day I happened upon a pair of Gucci sunglasses. Not exactly my style, but hey they're Gucci! I have since discovered the beauty it is to have shields blocking your eyes. Protection... no ...
Posted by c h a d on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

...

Well life's crazy, I've been accepted to the College of Santa Fe, but still have to jump some flaming financial hoops to get to the other side. Life is insane at my Mom's house, but only 26 days to g...
Posted by c h a d on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST