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El Gringo Exquisito

El Guanagringo, con curtido en mis venas, Puuuchica, no jjjjodas loco!

About Me


All photos by Nathan Wise (except this one...)
Meandering Vagabond in search of adventure in unlikely places. Wandering photographer, witness, recorder, and reorderer of vibes, socially adept and inately talented in the observation of the nefarious, or just not-so-obvious, influences governing group behavior, and a lover of covert and careful manipulation thereof for the purpose of expanding consciousness and/or intensifying the beautiful contrasts capable in loving expression of the human condition.
Multitasking, multitalented man, manifesting mischevious misadventure. Extemporaneous huckster always ready to parlay, or purvey, perspicacious politicking to the people. A clown, a cook, a healer.
Walks Confidently in the Dark, would be my indian name I think, though I've no authority to bestow upon myself such a title. I aim to wander, and I wander with an aim, and I aim to please, those pleasant to me, and educate or be taught by many more. Do you dig it, person? you PC hep cat you?
Mac nerd, roleplay nerd, Second Life Nerd, educator of anatomy, kinesiology, and deep tissue massage, english/spanish real time translator/interpretor, DJ without a PA, PA without an AD or a DP, down with DPZ and the Coup.
Landscaper, visionary assistant to those who put on the parties that have meaning, lover of the earth, and dance, and Earthdance. Dancer at night, with fire, and not casually...
Meet me at the Burn? Not till next time you didn't. More pictures and wordscapes of the loverly dicotomies of my life to come here and in the photo section of my profile.

My Interests

Music and Festival Production, Holistic Health, ATV's, Massage, Moonshine, Cowboy Hats, Natural Fibers, Computers, Outhouses, Marketing, Barter Economies, Latin america, solid state lighting, agriculture, Japan, Weiqi, Baduk, Go, live music, photography, cooking, animation,

movement, economics, international development, Dancers, athletes, mom, family, wandering without aim, sacrificing all for a cause, energy, alopathy, anatomy, spirituality, semantics, after all, it all comes down to semantics or was it spirituality? It's all so clear until words happen. Words and beer....

I'd like to meet:

Intelligent, active, multilingual voyagers of lands and mindstates distant and or innate. Latinos, musicos, ambient babblers of not-so-nonsense, warriors for the light, indigenas, shamans and witches ohh my! I'm here to soak it up in my brief time, and spread the joy of experience, with it's rich pleasure and pain, with those I go bump with, day or night!
These folks I've met are a good start

Albino!! Funky Folks

Uncompromising soldiers of Good Fortune.... look, here's one now!

Rico Pabon The Light for the Times

True Christians, bodhisattva path walkers, people who bring joy and love to the world through creation! Arts, music, clothing, mindstates, literature, food, beautiful people, hello!!!

Destani, an angel on lyrical wings

Purveyors of fine beers, wines, arts, music, and luminaires... LED's are the future! Speakers without warning, revolutionaries, stringent strict moralists in need of loosening, harmless and harmful empiricists, looking to change their colors, friends, sons, daughters, mothers, brothers....poets of all walks...

Al Howard- if you can keep up, the message is there

LOVERS, and people who make me want to love, or fall in love, or people I can't help but love even when I see them onstage, like this raving beauty....

Tina Malia- a vision on stage, an aural dreamscape, brilliant.

WOMEN -That's right, I'm not shy, of all the wonders of living in the woods, a sizeable crossection of single, interesting, engaging women isn't among them. So write me, I'm not an asshole, I might have something worthwhile to say, and I havn't had good sista' stimulation in a while.

Art in spite of the machine, industrial organics, the proletariat, craftsmen and laborers, the activists, the populists, the warriors, the keepers of the tree of democracy, the nomads who still participate through dissemination of accumulated travel wisdom.

Music:


New music that pushes my boundaries, I seek it every day.... presently, A Particularly Vicious Rumor, Come Moo with Us, Planc Tone, Joanna Newsom, Dona Zica, Vermouth, Liquidrone.... I'm surfing the line between folk and psychedelic organic trip hop lounge, but this is new territory for me....
more familiar heroes...Jimmy Buffet, Tha Musemeant, Michael Franti, Rico Pabon, Los Able Minded Poets, Tulasi, brother Saul Williams, Ethiopiques, Grandpa Jones, Romanteek, Jamiroquai, Morcheeba, BLU Magazine, Dead Prez, The Coup, Ozomatli, O-Maya, Orff, Varese, Holst, Tom Waits, Daniel Johnston, 2 piece garage bands, Trip Hop, Female Vocalists, Mingus, Miles, Dr John, Dr. Hook, BB King, Chucho Valdez, Dizzy, Irakere, Hugh Mundell, augustus Pablo, Jimmy Cliff, LKJ, Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley, Mozart, Tool, Perfect Circle, Soundgarden, 7 Year Bitch, Macy O Parker, Macy Grey, Freddie Scott, Gil Scott Heron, Ray LaMontagne, Ben Harper, The Grateful Dead, Jack Johnson, David Grey, Mahmoud Ahmed, Amadou and Mariam, Fela Kuti, Ravi Shankar, Susanna Baca, Lila Downs, Alicia Keys, Lhasa de Sela, Yerba Buena Orquestra, Orishas, Friguey, Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, all three Hanks,

Loretta Lynne, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, Rasputina, Slammin, A'Capella groups, especially comic ones, Lyle Lovett, Donavan, Chris Christofferson, The Meters, Jao Gilberto, Caetano Veloz, Victor Jarra, musica de la protesta, and all live music.

Movies:

I Know I'm Not Alone, Slam, Pumpkin, Y tu Mama Tambien, Thumbsucker, Guns of Navarrone, North by Northwest, Palm Beach Story(Preston Sturges is the most brilliant dialogue writer ever), The Misadventures of Harold Diddlebock (or Bad Wednsday, depending on Sturges or Hughes Cut) Miracle of Morgans Creek, Memento, Pi (has Go in it), My Fair Lady, 7 Brides for Seven Brothers, Reefer Madness, Lord of War, Science of Sleep, Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar (and many bawdy musicals), The Birds (love Hitchcock), Vertigo, Joe Dirt...Spies Like Us, Animal House (and most other John Landis films) anything by David O Russel (Soldiers Pay, Three Kings, Flirting With Disaster) Charlie Kaufmann scripts (adaptation, Eternal Sunshine, etc) beautiful cinema in black and white or color, art films with an edge, Tarantino, Wasabi, the Red Violin, Falling Down, Whisky Galore, The Ladykillers, Ball of Fire (anything with young Barbara Stanwyck Aoooooga!@) Blood of Heroes, Zardoz, Mad Max, The Pianist, The Graduate, Serenity (go Browncoats), Hitchhikers Guide, Peter Jackson's King Kong (minus the brontosaurus scenes), Motorcycle Diaries, 4 Eyed Monsters, Falling Down, The Aviator, City of God, Bad Lieutenant, Bush Fortunes, The Future of Food, Supersize Me, Lawrence of Arabia, The Making of Invasion of the Freedom Snatchers, creative porn, and 12:01.

Television:

I don't have one at home, but....Studio 60 (Go Sorkin, yay John Ennis!!) Deadwood, Good Eats, Boondocks, Daily Show, The Colbert Report Who else has stood up in Georgies' face and told him exactly how it is? Carnivale, Deadwood, Rome (cancel it for Deadwood Season 4), The West Wing (whilst Sorkin wrote), Democracy Now, Deadwood, Cancel HBO, buy the DVDs, Entourage SUCKS, Lucky Louie SUCKS, cancel HBO, stop the dumbing down of HBO, surgeries, BIG LOVE!!! (the only reason to keep HBO after Deadwood is gone), El Colbert Reporto Gigante, Texas Holdem, Current TV, FreeSpeechTV, CSPAN, British House of Commons, Deadwood Prime Minister Question Time, HUSTLE, The Office (english improv not american ripoff), Strangers With Candy, Exit 57, Mr Show, 30 Days, did I mention Deadwood? talk to me about Deadwood and you're stuck for hours.

Books:

Freakanomics, Joseki and Fuseki books, Go Theory especially the books by Janice Kim, The Worldly Philosophers, Robert Heinlein novels (TANSTAAFL Biatches, you Grok? It's all about anarchistic revolution of the self), Isaac Asimov(breeding psychohistorians one little bookworm at a time), Tom Robbins...

(wanna come see the cave with MY world clock in it?), David Wingrove(Chung Kuo is right around the corner, read up), Neal Stephenson(are tweakers the stimheads he predicted?), Kundera (ahh such sweet sadness), Voltaire(goddamn funniest man in the last 400 years, till Colbert, and spent time in prison for it), Chaucer, Shakespeare (Milch has surpassed him handily with Deadwood), Edward Abbey, Perfume, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Trilogy of the Ring, Patpong Sisters, La Terquedad del Izote, La Guerrilla Fue Mi Camino, Isabel allende novels, La Colmena, My Side of the Mountain, Dove, Kon Tiki, The Voyage of Ra, Lost Horizon, Walden, The Monkeywrench Gang, holy texts (entertaining!) The Tao Te Ching, Sun Tzu's art of War, The Little Red Book, Wilson Popenoe's story, adam smith, history, the elegant universe, Surfing's Greatest Misadventures, Candide, Wigfield, America the Book, the 911 Report Ommissions and Distortions, Noam Chomsky's political booklets, and his linguistic texts, instruction manuals, maps, charts, nautical novels, Sea Wolf- my favorite Jack London novel, The Boo Hoo Bible, Heart of Darkness, and Brave Men Too... Adbusters. Beat the Heat and Fair Use educational comics.

Heroes:


My Father, My Mother, people with faith, questioners, Danny Sheckter, Greg Palast, Howard Zinn, Jesus Ferguson, Doyle Brunson, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Victor Jarra, Quan Yin, St. Francis, Jim Hightower, Robert Heinlein, Rico, Isaac asimov.

Exceptional teachers and professors, Jimmy Carter(the only living US president who PERHAPS doesn't belong in prison), the hundreds of political prisoners who perhaps DON'T. Shelton "Hank" Williams III, for following his punk rock dream, me for trying to follow mine, shamans, yogis, natives, pioneers, spirits, Orishas, Kami, my brothers, and the Sea.
MY BROTHERS!!! The only ones I got and I wouldn't trade 'em!

My Blog

New Ditty, please add to it.

So far it's 4/4 at about 95 BPM, anyone who feels like using it, this is an open source poem.Luz, Vida, y Liberacion,los que buscamos solo estosomos una nacionen esta vida complicadait takes faith the...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Sun, 11 Jun 2006 09:01:00 PST

Soundmen(and sound in general), the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Soundmen.... ohh the expletives that I could expound upon at this juncture....(deep breath)The subject of soundmen is a touchy one for me. Some are great guys, some have great ears, and some have gre...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 12:28:00 PST

jeje

la vida va pasando y abrazando lo vemos lo creemos mas completo la vida es complejo, se necesita el espejo en todas nuestras acciones, tradiciones e invocaciones, siguen las invasiones, de mater...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:04:00 PST

next

Spin fire with circus freaks, eat franks in the streets, play through lucky streaks and bad beats and chill on the curb watching the heat. Wander through woods burrs and spines tearing at fleshy thin...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:15:00 PST

superbowl sunday ruminations

Drunk football fans swirl around me, racing for the door, they want... they want a glimpse of the female sheriff as she tags the writhing hippie kid with the tazer again. Fucking spunyons, all dos...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 11:13:00 PST

to the 42 who went before me last night

One look into my misfit eyes, and you don't want to play me, you call me down one more time, boy, you're gonna pay me. Flip your cards and drop your dime, the door is that way, it's good to...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Sun, 05 Feb 2006 01:39:00 PST

a poem for my dear friends

I will write with fire and sign my name in ash, this is the day when the past is burnt beyond recognition, from hence forth the demons shall rule no more I stride willfully across the field of bat...
Posted by GandalftheBrown on Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:49:00 PST