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About Me

"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a muddled field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others" --Blood Meridian I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace).contactTable {width:300px !important; height:150px !important;

My Interests

Tian Shan, Lao Hu, Meiguo, Tukuhnikivats, Oku Pin, Tsoo Dzith, Dzith Na'ool'dithle', Shash, Chile Verde, Jailoo, Antropologia, Arte, Amor, Poesia, Zhonguo, Budo, animals, math rock, punk rock, anything from Yazoo Records.

I'd like to meet:

Other people. Maybe Pandas too. Anybody with something to say.

Music:

Saban Bajramovic, Booker T., Meters, P-Funk, Curtis Mayfield, Hendrix, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Buck Owens, Django Reinhardt, Rev. Horton Heat, Dinosaur Jr., Papa M, Camper Van Beethoven, David Bowie, Clash, Ramones, Alice Cooper, early Genesis, Pink Floyd, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagner, George Jones, NWA, Cube, Dre, The Chakachas, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Digable Planets, Plastilina Mosh, Low, Red Elvises, Meat Puppets, Nick Drake, Flat Duo Jets, Guitar Wolf, Jesus Lizard, Urge Overkill, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Sonic Youth, Them, Van Morrison, Ventures, Link Wray, Nina Simone, Beatles, Stones, BLACK SABBATH, Judas Priest, Neil Young, Modest Mouse,Flaming Lips, Minutemen, Southern Culture on the Skids, the Who, Cypress Hill, Money Mark, Slint, Misfits, Ennio Morricone, Pixies, Stereolab, Stone Roses, Blur, Iggy Pop,Dick Dale, Lou Reed, Charlie Patton,Paul "Earthquake" Pena, Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, Jelly Roll Morton, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Bonny "Prince" Billy, The Cure, Pizzicato Five, Black Flag, Willie Nelson, Marty Robbins, Lord Buckley, Cibo Matto, Old Time Relijun, Gamelan, Bossanova, Toots and the Maytals, Bob Marley, Mermen, DJ Shadow, Nautilus Pompilus, Yo La Tengo, Tuvan throat singing.. A whole galaxy of gems I'm sadly forgetting..

Movies:

Blood In Blood Out, Lone Wolf and Cub, Ghost in the Shell, Dersu Uzala, Red Tulips of Yssyk Kul, Ran, Last Life in the Universe, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Spring Summer Fall Winter Spring, Young Poisoners Handbook, Cayip's Last Journey, Jeremiah Johnson, 2046, Chungking Express, Blackrobe, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Shining, Royal Tanenbaums, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, MST3K, Kids In the Hall, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Evil Dead, Dawn of the Dead ('78 or '04), Drunken Master, so many others...

Television:

n/a..

Books:

William Blake, Lev Tolstoy ("War And Peace" is my favorite book), Charles Bukowski (he's a bad influence on the kids, but that attitude-- I gotta love it), Simon Ortiz, B. Traven, Cormac McCarthy (Blood Meridian!!!!!, Edward Abbey (I couldn't get enough of his stuff in high school), Jimmy Santiago Baca, William Faulkner, Leslie Marmon Silko (she's hateful, but powerful), Chingiz Aitmatov (the USSR's best writer), Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, Philip K. Dick, Cervantes (I choose him over Shakespeare anyday), Walt Whitman, The Hagakure, Laoze... Shall I go on??

Heroes:

Quanah Parker, Morihei Ueshiba, Kazuo Chiba, B.Traven

My Blog

Humans and Nature, part 2

My days are becoming as if an accumulation of small accomplishments is the best possible way to move forward. Everyday, some exercise, whether low impact or high. Everyday, water the garden, everyday ...
Posted by Memo on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:21:00 PST

Humans and Nature

I guess this is a serious blog.I often try to portray myself as a happy-go-lucky guy, and mostly, I am. I don't like to go through life with a dour outlook, and I don't like to complain. There is a di...
Posted by Memo on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:28:00 PST

Garden Blog

I authored a rather long blog about my day cutting bamboo and some interesting conversations today..and I lost the whole text due to some myspace error.. BUMMER!!!!!Anyhoo, I was talking to my co-cont...
Posted by Memo on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:59:00 PST

Garden Blog : 2-- Partially Electronic Bugaloo!!

No change in the other rows, but the squash and pumpkins continue to sprout up nicely.I had a big break! I randomly went "casing" neighborhoods for stands of bamboo, and somewhat near my house, I spie...
Posted by Memo on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:10:00 PST

Garden blog, part I

So I planted seeds in my garden plot last week, and this morning, I finally noticed the first responders, if you will. The summer squash and pumpkins have sent up seedlings in six days.I've got to get...
Posted by Memo on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:40:00 PST

Is there...

...anybody out there who actually supports and/or likes Hillary Clinton?? Who are these people anyway? It's now almost June and she is still bitterly hanging on.. like a lamprey.. to this primary cycl...
Posted by Memo on Wed, 28 May 2008 08:52:00 PST

Impressions, U.S. Blues

Well, for once, I am in complete agreement with Thomas Friedman. In Today's Times he had this to say about the state of the US:A few weeks ago, my wife and I flew from New York's Kennedy Airport to Si...
Posted by Memo on Thu, 08 May 2008 02:23:00 PST

The way home..

The things that I have experienced and heard in the past 2 and half weeks have done a lot to turn some of my hairs gray. I wish I could tell more about it all, but instead I am writing short stories a...
Posted by Memo on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:54:00 PST

Espanola makes the NY Times

Reading this took me back to my days as a treatment counselor in the Espanola valley. You know, I miss the place. It’s beautiful and tragic.April 2, 2008 A Grim Tradition, and a Long Struggle ...
Posted by Memo on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:00:00 PST

Xiao Hua

On Luju Lu there is a fruit stand that I often patronize. The lady that runs the thing kept a beautiful little white and brown cat named "Xiao Hua" ("Little Flower").. Xiao Hua lived inside the fruit ...
Posted by Memo on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:53:00 PST