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PAPER MACHETE

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About Me

Your life's a comma while mine's a paragraph.

I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6 !

Know me by what I do...No Sweat: www.studentsagainstsweatshops.orgMake Trade Fair: www.oxfam.comEnd a War: www.invisiblechildren.comGet some news: www.alertnet.orgRock the Blackspot: www.adbusters.org

My Interests

Activism rocks my socks.Stop Sweatshop Use at USC:
Click to join uscscale

I'd like to meet:

People with an appreciation for poetry, thought, artistic inspiration, and a view of the world that extends beyond their front door. Some good looking women wouldn't hurt either.

Music:

Sublime, Common, The Mars Volta, Immortal Technique, Jack Johnson, Talib Kweli, Kanye West, Incubus, Mos Def, The Doors, Manu Chao, Saul Williams, Miles Davis, Canibus, Sage Francis, Atmosphere, Native Guns, 2Mex, and Ozomatli

Movies:

Old Boy, Kung Fu Hustle, American Beauty, The Take, Invisible Children, Life as a House, The Matrix, 8 1/2, The Seventh Seal, Indiana Jones trilogy, Star Wars trilogy (4-6), Donnie Darko, Clerks, Gladiator, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, and Battle Royale.

Television:

Arrested Development, The Twilight Zone, Lost.

Books:

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Sphere, Nevermore, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Watchmen

Heroes:

My father, my mother, and all those workers fighting for their right to unionize and/or operate their own factories.

My Blog

Pick-up Lines in Mind

I actually wrote this one months and months ago on the same day I wrote my desire poem during jury duty. Finally putting it up.I feel as though I've missed my chance...Can we dance?No, wait, try anoth...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:05:00 PST

Bars of Diamond: A Love Song of Diamond Bar

"Who is this kid? Why is he rhymin'?"The name's David, Mr. Romero to you, and I spit bars of diamond.This may be your first time butI'm still remindin' you that it's my place of origin: where I've be...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:08:00 PST

God, Blessed Slaves, Santa Claus, Money and the Easter Bunny

I hate to tell you this...There is no God.Thousands of Chinese slaves manufacture your Ipods.Racist jokes and comments aren't funny.The biggest religion on Earth is: MONEY.And, oh yeah, lest I forget:...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:59:00 PST

Silence By the Sea

Scrawled out messages of hope for youIn exchange for your sadness:Power in angerMore in strangers.Something to let out the badness.In other ways besides bleeding.There's some power in believing.In oth...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 01:32:00 PST

SHOUT OUT TO THE FUTURE - Musical Masacre

A chapter from a book I may actually finish some day.News Anchor: "This just in& Hip Hop's end."By this time it and the Revolution have become synonymousWith Civil Fights leaders largely anonymous.Wor...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:55:00 PST

Summer in December

Summer dress,Presence blessed.I remember it, just one day.Sleep and rest.Hot lungs over your chest.Heaven's really...when I see the stars in your eyes.And they're there for real.And I feel like I'm ga...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:31:00 PST

July 13, 2007

Three rooms in one Made by curtains/drapes.An inch of faded and stained cloth provides the middle man's escape.Green purple orange.Another one.Orange purple green.What I mean is the order of stripes.W...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:42:00 PST

Sun Rises Over the Sphinx

Fuck it!That's the first part.Then bring forth the highest art.Cathedral of Chartres.Down the narthex where we start.Respect, you can look it up later.I'm a true rhymesayer.I coordinate with heartbeat...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:46:00 PST

"Stan/Thank You" Freestyle

A friend of mine put on the instrumental for Eminem's "Stan." And while I thought about how to flow over it man, I listened for something I could hear, some component of the beat...and then I began to...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:12:00 PST

Desire Poem

Purple roseTattered clothesOpen hair, wild and on fire.Kitchen sinkBlood to drink.Yellow shirt... Wild with desireComplement with color.I want her, anotherEntersShe reigns in descriptionMakes madness ...
Posted by PAPER MACHETE on Wed, 30 May 2007 02:34:00 PST