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Sanhalom

Na Tungo I Halemu - Know Your Roots

About Me

OFF THE CHAIN like Kunta Kente with a Mac10

My Interests

Family, learning about my culture/language...CHamorro, revitalizing my culture, FREEDOM, TRUTH, SUNDAY HIKES to cultural sites, all things GUAHAN, SINANGAN-TA: Our Spoken Words POETRY SLAM, graphics...illustrator and photoshop, drawing, graffiti, books, Spoken Word, writing, music, dreams, other koltures, kayaking, my dogs...Cheech and Chong-LickyLicky-Tweakerboy, herb

Music:

REGGAE, hip hop

Movies:

SINANGAN-TA 1-10, Let Freedom Ring, Def Poetry, once were warriors, whale rider, slam, the Matrix trilogy, city of god, requiem for a dream, reservoir dogs, true romance, pulp fiction, four rooms, rockers, before sunrise, before sunset, akira, snatch, lock stock & two smoking barrels, lost angels, homegrown, graffiti verite, roots rock reggae - inside the jamaican music scene, vampire hunter d, fandango, human traffic, go, lost in translation, it's all gone pete tong, kids, bang rajan, rapa nui, thank you for smoking

Television:

DEF POETRY, WEEDS, SCRUBS, the Discovery Channel

Books:

JUST LEFT OF THE SETTING SUN - Julian Aguon / THE FIRE THIS TIME - Julian Aguon / ISHMAEL - Daniel Quinn / THE STORY OF B - Daniel Quinn / MY ISHMAEL - Daniel Quinn / A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES - Howard Zinn / PROTEST AND DISSENT IN THE COLONIAL PACIFIC - Peter Hempenstall, Noel Rutherford / OUR CROWDED ISLANDS - Epeli Hau'ofa / TALES OF THE TIKONGS - Epeli Hau'ofa / THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES - Ernesto Che Guevara / TRANSBLUESENCY - Amiri Baraka / TAO TE CHING - Lao Tzu / POTIKI - Patricia Grace / SONS FOR THE RETURN HOME - Albert Wendt / NUANUA - edited by Albert Wendt / SHOCK AND AWE war on words / THE DEAD EMCEE SCROLLS - Saul Williams / ,SAID THE SHOTGUN TO THE HEAD - Saul Williams / THE SEVENTH OCTAVE - Saul Williams / POETRY SLAM The Competative Art of Performance Poetry / BUM RUSH THE PAGE / DEF POETRY JAM ON BROADWAY...AND MORE / THE SPOKEN WORD REVOLUTION / ALOUD Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe / anything from Kahlil Gibran / THE ESSENTIAL ETHERIDGE KNIGHT - Etheridge Knight / THE TAO OF POOH, THE TE OF PIGLET - Benjamin Hoff / SOLIPSIST - Henry Rollins / THE STORIES BEHIND EVERY BOB MARLEY SONG 1962-1981 - Maureen Sheridan / LISTEN UP - Zoe Anglesey /THE OUTLAW BIBLE OF AMERICAN POETRY - Alan Kaufman / SHE - Saul Williams / AN INVITATION TO DREAM - Ana Lora Garrard /BOB MARLEY In His Own Words - Ian McCann / ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE - Gabriel Garcia Marquez / THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO - Alexandre Dumas / DON QUIXOTE - Cervantes / THE CELESTINE PROPHECY - James Redfield / GRAFFITI WORLD - Nicholas Ganz / any graffiti mags

Heroes:

my DAD and my MOM, my brothers, Gunadot I Kutturan CHAMORRO - Champions of the CHamorro Culture, all SINANGAN-TA poets, Epeli Hau'ofa, Haunani-Kay Trask, Native Guns, Ishmael, Martin Luther King jr, Neo, Bob marley, Horsemouth

My Blog

I Wish I Could Write

i wish i could writelike...immortal techniqueand drop knowledge so heavyit leaves the world unbalancedspit poems that push radical thoughtsto acts of defiancepoems that stick 2 middle fingersand...2 m...
Posted by Sanhalom on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:14:00 PST

FreeWriting/Blah,Blah,Blah...

FEBRUARY 6th... HAPPY BIRTHDAY BOB!! Ya Mon!! it's also the day i quit smoking...ahhhh, cigarettes, anyway. Cold Turkey! but we'll see...the last time i "quit" was for 3 whole days. been smoking for 1...
Posted by Sanhalom on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:35:00 PST

SINANGAN-TA OUTREACH: SOUTHERN HS. OCT 5, 2007

SINANGAN-TA POETRY COLLECTIVESouthern HS. Friday, Oct 5: Sinangan-ta Outreach officially began at Southern HS at around 7 in the morning when Melvin Won Pat-Borja, Aaron Tamayo, Fanai Castro, Jovan To...
Posted by Sanhalom on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:09:00 PST

NA’I HIT NI’ IYO-TA -- Give Us What Is Ours

still working on this one. just put this together real quick for a radio interview we did for Sinangan-taNa'i Hit Ni' Iyo-taGive Us What Is Oursfor too long we have been deniedwe had the american drea...
Posted by Sanhalom on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:29:00 PST

SINANGAN-TA 6. OCT 13, 2007

SINANGAN-TA 6, in the words of jamie foxx from def poetry, was "off the hizzle, fo shizzle!". it was the first all ages slam we've had and it was fucking amazing. we had 16 poets sign up and half of t...
Posted by Sanhalom on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:22:00 PST