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Juan Carlos de La Mancha

From the same desert, in the same night.

About Me

I am a badly urbanized peasant who happens to be fairly literate.My voice sounds like the hoot of an owl in the dreams of a mouse. I want what you want.

My Interests

All the usual artsy shit; ducks, kitties, landmine removal. the human condition. violent social upheaval. Basque nationalism. Southeast Asia.

I'd like to meet:

Somebody in a place where there is said to be nobody.

Music:

Typical myspace favorites(IE Modest Mouse Sonic Youth, The Pixies ,16 Horse Power, Pinback, Three Mile Pilot, The VSS ,Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Patsy Cline, Giant Sand, The Birthday Party , Antioch Arrow, Yo la Tengo, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, The Dwarves, The Germs, Angel Hair, Built to Spill, The Cramps, Swell, Big Star, Guided by Voices, Chet Baker, Drive Like Jehu. Foreign Legion Marching hymns, etc etc.....

Movies:

Beau Geste, Paths of Glory, The Secret Garden, Once Upon a Time in the West, Big Fish, Platoon, The Dark Crystal, The Seven Samurai, Maetwan, Das Boot, The Last Supper, The Thing, City of Lost Children, The Red Violin, Kill Bill, Bladerunner...........

Television:

.......... This was my favorite show when I was about four or five.

Books:

A Mouthful of Rocks,Seven Pillars of Wisdom, How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, The fourth gospel of the new testament, anything by the great Sufi mystic Rumi, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Miguel De Cervantes, Milan Kundera, The Upanishads, Phillip K Dick, Flannery Oconner, Joseph Conrad, Umberto Eco and many more..

Heroes:

"My heroes have always killed cowboys."Sgt. Brice A. Pearson, Lt. Col. Charles D. Le Mire, Jim Henson,Charles De Gaulle,Marshall Foch,Lenny Bruce, Edie Sedgewick, "Yankee Air Pirates!", "Pappy" Boyington, and all of the social futurists.Special mention: Gravilo Princip, William H. Bonney and Col. Mike "Elf" Cryer.