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Doktoro Esperanto

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About Me

I sit on rooftops most of the time and listen to conversations with wires. Sometimes I use a little zigzag mirror thing to look around corners.I have a tattoo of a kiva (at Aztec, New Mexico), to remind me of Nuevo Mexico (505) and how by seeing the stars and the sky up here in this high mountain destert, you really know where you are in the universe. Santa Fe will always be home. The people(kids) here know what's up. Cross of the Martyrs and Zozobra and the Plaza, and Santa Fe High and Paulo Solari and the Indian School and history and awareness. Que viva. Represent.And represent New Orleans (504), the city that love forgot (or at least the White House forgot), but that the people love like there's no other place out there. And it will rebuild, and the spirit of the people will continue to thrive. Dragon's Den and Snug Harbor and Cafe Brazil and Spotted Cat and Marie Laveau and voodoo priestesses and the non-touristy version of Mardi Gras and the whole pre lenten month. And Jazz Fest and George Brumat and NOCCA and WTUL and WWOZ.And Portland, Oregon (503), where my parents were born, and my family lives. To green living and recycling and surfing the oregon coast and great public transportation and beautiful forests and rivers. To hobbit trail and cascade head. And fucking great fountains in the city. (Stay tuned for a fountain tour of Portland, courtesy of S. Trafficante).Right now, that's about me. I'm editor of the Vox, WTUL's music and culture magazine. Stay tuned for Fall issue on "Revolutions: Back to the Basement". Send submissions about anything related to TUL or Revolution to [email protected]. And I'm making films and audio for Newcomb College, about women in NOLA post Katrina (right now voodoo priestesses and female chefs) (Stay tuned for the link)I love travel, and have been lucky enough to experience Brazil and China and Tibet and Bali, and met some incredible people that way. But being in the United States of America is more amazing and stimulating than anything right now: at the heart of a dying empire.

My Interests

Interviewing, bantering, collecting, dialogue, monologuge (only in song), puzzles (jigsaw and metaphorical), espionage. Jumbling it all together in some haphazard dream where my eyes are red when I wake up, and attaching some meaningful meaning.Why? and How? and some Who?, but rarely When? and What?

I'd like to meet:

Murs, Jackie Chan and his childhood Peking Opera teacher, Adam Curtis, the documentarian responsible for BBC's "Century of the Self", "Cidade de Deus" directors/producers/documentors Katia Lund and Fernando Mierelles. God heriself.

Music:

Beirut, MIA, Murs/Living Legends, Felt, Vinicius de Morais, Devendra Banhart, the Jamaicans, Barrington Levy, Dizzee Rascal, Heliao e Negra Li, Jorge Ben, Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Tom Ze, Os Mutantes, Modest Mouse, Bob Dylan, Mice Parade, Mighty Sparrow, Roy Orbison, The Clash

Movies:

Wizard of Oz, Return to Oz, Un Chien Andalou (and other Luis Bunuel), Cidade de Deus, House of Flying Daggers, Amelie ), the Little Mermaid through Lion King Disney Years, A Love Song for Bobby Long (New Orleans...)

Television:

PROBABLY NOT "K-Ville" about a New Orleans where "criminals with AK-47's roam the streets. I like Documentaries- National Geographic, BBC. HBO shows. Simpsons, South Park, PBS specials about teens, Al Gore's new station CURRENT, the "Television home page for the internet generation". It has mexican jugglers and Chinese evangelists. Rock.

Books:

Cosmicomics, 100 Years of Solitude, Notes from Underground, Captains of the Sand, Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jitterbug Perfume, Villa Incognito, Confederacy of Dunces

Heroes:

the keyboardist/accordionist/saxiphonist from Red Elvises, and those who enjoy the trapese. Revolutionaries and techno wizards and LIVERS.