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Paul

Save me from myself...or join in on my demise

About Me

www.xanga.com/psuhr

My Interests

Traveling, photography, scuba diving, hiking, playing guitar, museum hopping, singing, writing music, rafting, skydiving, bungeejumping, writing, reading, fishing, art, snowboarding, goin to shows, indie flicks, AND... searching for those epiphanies. those internal "Whoooooaaaa"s...where the enigma of life and humanity reveal itself in vulnerability for a brief second, where life is exposed within those silent glances from a stranger on a crowded subway

Music:

Iron and Wine, Pinback, Paco Lucia, Timbuktu, Cat Empire, Rage Against the Machine, Esthero, James Taylor, Sean Hayes, Jose's Cajon, Manu Chao, Aphrodite, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Jurassic Five, Coldplay, Sage Francis, Fat Freddy's Drop, M.I.A., Simon and Garfunel, Atmosphere, Damien Rice, Xavier Rudd, Mos Def, Elliot Smith, James Brown, Roots Manuva, Air, La Nouvelle Vague, Vincente Amigo, the Roots, Al Green, Postal Service, From Monument to Masses, Brett Dennen, Gypsy Kings, Portishead, Inara George,

Movies:

Waking Life, Requiem for a Dream, Bowling for Columbine, Empire Strikes Back, Yellow Submarine, Glory, The Wall, Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Ferris Bueller, Buffalo '66, City of God, Sexo y Lucia, Autumn Winter Summer Spring, My Sassy Girl, Howl's Moving Castle,

Television:

Other than Iron Chef... TV is Satan and if you don't believe in Satan....then a very bad, ugly monster.

Books:

Brave New World, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, People's History of America, Lonely Planet, Cookbooks, Frederick Douglass Auto biography, Shantaram, God of Small Things, Manufacturing Consent, Cien Anos de Solidad, Tom Robbins' books, Life of Pi, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Art of Happiness, Lies my Teacher Told Me, The Alchemist, Aloft, Chomsky Reader, 1984, Foucalt's Pendulum, Mere Christianity, Farenheit 451, On the Road, Adbusters, Celestine Prophecy, Terror in the Mind of God, Descartes-Meditations, Anna Karenin, Catcher in the Rye, M. Scott Peck, The Power of Now, Ayn Rand, Michael Moore, Dostoevsky, Ghostwritten, El Viejo y El Mar,

My Blog

short story- "Fremont Train."

6:25&6:25&6:25 Flashing red, the numbers bounced on the screen, massaging my corneas as I awaited my train in the Downtown Berkeley underground. I used to get off at half past five. Ever since I picke...
Posted by Paul on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:48:00 PST

Summer in San Fran pix

I remember visiting SF in the past and marvelling over this bridge.  Something about being stuck in traffic on it on your way back home kinda killed it for me tho. but damn it's beautiful... ...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:57:00 PST

My New job in Berkeley

I love where I'm at right now...Living situation, work- I feel reassured that my decision to move up to SF was the right one.  So it's been three weeks at my job as the International Programs ma...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST

how an alien helped me with my job hunt

That's why they call it job HUNTING n not job CATCHING Not knowing where I'll be a month from now is a feeling bittersweet.  Bitter for the obvious reasons.  I like security - having control...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 26 May 2007 01:23:00 PST

pix since I've been back

 Pix from home Carlos playing the G-chord Bryce's B-day extravaganza BBQ at Amanda's Co-teachers from Korea reunion. Kathy's B-day Sportsfishing in Redondo Beach Eunha and I in Kore...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 24 May 2007 04:14:00 PST

pix from cali

Pix from Home My niece, Megan My nephew, Noah Lady overlooking the cloudy sea in Palos Verdes Sunset in Palos Verdes Oakland by night San Fran bird Santa Cruz sunset Pacific from Palos Verdes...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:01:00 PST

best of new zealand photos

..> ..>   Public - 10:27 PM - 14 eprops - 9 comments - edit it - email it ..>..> Tuesday, September 19, 2006 ..> ..> Some pix of New Zealand.  (More to come) Tra...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:59:00 PST

new zealand: wine tasting

Wine Tasting 101:Lisa and I decided to spend the last day in NZ doing a wine tour.  The region is famous for its Pinots and Sauv Blancs.  If you just pretend to know wine like I do there's a...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:57:00 PST

media terrorism and the war on terror: my master's thesis

  Media Propaganda & The War on Terror                 The relationship between mass media and terrorism is vast and incorpora...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:56:00 PST

saying goodbye to 2 years in australia

..> A friend asked me if I was good at saying goodbye.  I felt bad for saying 'yes'...I'm not exactly proud of that.  Why does being independent have to mean solitude?  ...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:54:00 PST