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Jesse

guoji wuchanjieji tuanjie wansui

About Me

I study linguistics and teach for a living. I enjoy hiking among the redwoods, biking around Santa Cruz, and posting blurry pictures of myself on MySpace. Makesizhuyi wan sui.

My Interests

Golden Boy peanuts, grenadine, Charlie Brannock's device, socialism, blues, klezmer, linguistics, Communism, feminism, cats, Riot Grrl!, history, Chinese literature, Yiddish, classical Chinese, pan-Asian supermarkets, sluicing, fencing, biking, drinking tea while it's raining outside, radical antiauthoritarian pedagogy, human liberation, tea, cooking, Chinese food, Indian food, Mexican food, Thai food, Sri Lankan food, Ethiopian food, anti-colonialism

I'd like to meet:

Bessie Smith, Emperor Heliogabolus, Karl Marx, Angela Davis, Tracy Chapman, Audre Lorde, Lu Xun, Du Fu, Joaquin Maurin, Patrice Lumumba

Music:

Cultural Revolution songs, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Algia Mae Hinton, Bukka White, Billy Bragg, Splashdown, The Weakerthans, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, The Pogues, Tori Amos, Crooked Still, Th'Legendary Shack*Shakers, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Gang of Four, Fairport Convention, Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, The Klezmatics, Wang Fei, The Coup, The Dresden Dolls, Tom Lehrer, Tommy Johnson, Great Big Sea, Girlyman, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie McTell, Steve Earle, Sonny Rhodes, Mercedes Lackey, Heather Alexander, Kapelye, The Max Levine Ensemble

Movies:

O Brother Where Art Thou?, Blind Shaft, Chungking Express, The Weather Underground, Whale Rider, Rabbit-proof Fence, Zhou Yu de huoche, Goodbye, Lenin!, Serenity, Reds, Ladyhawke, Elephant, Battle of Algiers

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly

Books:

Lipstick Traces, A Canticle for Leibowitz, Magic's Pawn, Capital, Romancero Gitano, Du Fu caotang shi xuan, Huntsman, What Quarry?, Power/Knowledge, Illusion, Smoke and Mirrors, Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Chronicles of the Cheysuli, The Magic Whip, Shijing, Society of the Spectacle, States of Injury, Sister Outsider, The Straight Mind, The Accumulation of Capital, If They Come in the Morning, Soledad Brother, Leaving the 20th Century, Are Prisons Obsolete?, Stalin's Forgotten Zion, Preludes & Nocturnes, Free Words, Jews Without Money, Goldbeater's Skin, The Lammas Hireling, Art of Blessing the Day, The Country Between Us, Erotic Welfare