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Hookahjoe

Entre citas de Borges, Evita bailaba con Freud

About Me

I work as the 2nd mate and ships navigator on the oceanographic research ships of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The voyages and expeditions I have worked brought me from the Yangtze River of China, to the icebergs off Cape Horn, South America and other points around the world. We generally do physical oceanography in the Pacific Ocean and connected waters. My passion is world travel and I have spent the last 8 years working and independently wondering the world. I have no home other than my ship and I live out of a backpack. I also love literature, yo study history, and to make trouble where and when I can.

My ship and home, the RV Roger Revelle.

Vacation in Colombia this spring -RV Jason trips in the Bahamas this fall, and hope to get to Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and to Chile to meet the ship in Patagonia.Check me out at Livejournal MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Afghanistan, Amazon River, Antarctica, anti bush, anti war, Burning Spear, Cape Hope, Cape Horn, Cape Town, China, Chinese film, Colombia, film, Frida, geopolitics, Gong Li, great game, history, hookah, icebergs, Iraq, Islam, Japanese beer, Jorge Borges, kava, kla training camps, Kosovo, Latin America, Lebanon, literature, Mao, Mexico, navigation, Nixon, North Korea, oceanography, Opium Wars, Paul Gauguin, pisco sours, Polynesia, proxy wars, rastafari, reggae, Serbia, ships, silk road, snake blood vodka, south pacific, sushi, Tahiti tattoo, tattoo, tequila, thai food, third world travel, travel, truth in media, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese Coffee, Vietnamese language.

and of course, sailor tattoos

I'd like to meet:

Rosario Tijeras

The girls of the Pinky Violence Collection

Music:

Manu Chao, Frank Zappa, John Lennon, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Burning Spear, Lee Perry, The Congos, Jr. Murvin, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Phillip Glass, Charly García

Movies:

Maria Full of Grace, Rosario Tijeras, Frida, Battle of Algiers, Motorcycle Diaries, Life Aquatic, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Cyclo, Vertical Ray of the Sun, Mishima, Fog of War, Rashomon, City of God, Rockers, Musa the warrior, Aguirre The Wrath of God, Iron Monkey, Dr. Strangelove, Chungking Express, Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad, Amores Perros

Television:

FUCK T.V. - it rots the mind

Books:

The Green House, Feast of the Goat, War at the End of the World, The Quiet American, Autumn of the Patriarch, The General in his Labyrinth, East of Eden, The Liberators, Manuscript Found in Saragossa, Satanic Verses, Jorge Luis Borges, Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, War and Peace, The Trial, Ulysses, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Decameron, The Naked and the Dead, The Best and the Brightest, A Bright Shining Lie, Jungle Book, I Claudius, Breaking the Tongue, Kafka on the Shore, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Norwegian Wood

Heroes:


revolutionary girls

My Blog

2007 Bhutan Trip

Its just a link to my LJ where my full story is posted http://hookahjoe.livejournal.com/197119.html...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:43:00 PST

Bogota Modeling

Just did some jacket modeling in Bogota, Colombia last week as any of my LJ readers would know. Well here are the links -http://hookahjoe.livejournal.com/179736.htmlhttp://hookahjo e.livejournal.com/17...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 04:27:00 PST

Im only posting some of my old writing and pics here. I keep my day-to-day blog over at LJ

http://hookahjoe.livejournal.com/...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 05:49:00 PST

Iceberg pictures from 2005 Antarctica expedition

On the RV Revelle,  from Tahiti to 71.5 South, to New Zealand.   My Captain Icebergs on the radar ...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Sat, 22 Apr 2006 12:45:00 PST

Links to my Kosovo/Albania/crazy Eastern Europe pics

http://lonelysailor.blogspot.com/2004/09/kosovo-2004-picture s.html   http://lonelysailor.blogspot.com/2004/09/bosnia-2004-picture s.html   http://lonelysailor.blogspot.com/2004/09/macedonia-2...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 06:02:00 PST

My 2004 Kosovo/Albania Adventure

A true story about incompetent UN peacekeepers, ethnic cleansing, gypsy bathrooms, pill box bunkers, crazy Albanian cops, A Kosovo Liberation Army training camp, lost taxi drivers, infected vaginas, E...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:44:00 PST

Snake Blood Vodka

At my going away party in Hanoi, Vietnam I lead a toast with a beating snake heart in a shot of vodka.  I could feel it beat as it worked its way down to my stomach.  We were at Snake Villag...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:13:00 PST

Korean ice pictures

Pictures of the dangerous ice conditions aboard the R/V Revelle during a science cruise in 1999.  We were working out of Pusan, South Korea to do a study on a warm/cold water mixing area in the N...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:10:00 PST

The World's Tallest Indian

As a child, a highlight of each summers long drives north to our family cabin would be when my father pointed out the large wooden Indian statue.  Dad would slow the car down, or if we were lucky...
Posted by Hookahjoe on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 04:57:00 PST

Stone Moon pictures

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Posted by Hookahjoe on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:21:00 PST