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avalon

'got to kick at the darkness 'til it breathes daylight' - bruce cockburn

About Me

the countless millions of you who looked in on my 1st couple of days will know that i was originally erronously credited as being from new york. after getting used to the idea of being labelled a citizen of a place i've never been to, i discovered how to correct it. however, after a couple of hours of being british, i felt that as i'm not particularly looking for british people, and consider myself a GLOBAL citizen, i'll change my nationality on a regular basis, on account of whatever country i feel needs solidarity at any particular time. so today, i'm going to become egyptian, tomorrow...? anyway,i'm in england and am english. looking for positivity from somewhere! as dylan sang, the times they are a changin' - i love music, even dylan's voice.

My Interests



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I'd like to meet:

ALLI BEE singing Kirsty -ENGLAND 2 COLOMBIA 0Oh you shouldn't have kissed me and got me so excited And when you asked me out I really was delighted So we went to a pub in Belsize Park And we cheered on England as the sky grew dark Oh you shouldn't have kissed me cause you started a fire But then I found out that you're a serial liarYou lied about your status You lied about your life You never mentioned your three children And the fact you have a wife Now it's England 2 Colombia 0 And I know just how those Colombians feelIf you hadn't passed out while I was talking to your friend It could have really ended badly cause you very nearly had me If he hadn't taken pity on my heart full of desire I might never have found out you're a serial liarYou lied about your status You lied about your life You forgot you have three children You forgot you have a wife Now it's England 2 Colombia 0 And I know just how those Colombians feelIt is not in my nature to ever pick the winning team Sometimes I think I'm happy then I remember it's a dream Now it isn't in my nature to ever pick a winner I always pick a bastard who would have me for his dinner I can never possess the object of my desire Cause he's bound to turn out to be a serial liar OK I didn't mention my kids, I thought I'd wait a bit But I am free and single and he's a lying gitCause he lied about his status He lied about his life He forgot he had three children He forgot he had a wife And it's England 2 Colombia 0 I know just how those Colombians feelSo I got into a taxi and sobbed all the way home Called my friend up in Sao Paulo and cried down the phone I played some tragic music and I lay down to die But later I woke and I hadn't stopped crying You should never have kissed me, you tasted of deceit Your perfume was Adultery but I'm not a piece of meat So I'll be the one that you couldn't acquire I found out in time you're a serial liarYou lied about your status You lied about your life And I pity your three children And I pity your poor wife Now you can go to Hell I'm going to Brazil Still it's England 2 Colombia0LITTLE FEAT

Music:



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Movies:

Life of Brian, Python stuff, Shawshank Redemption, Malcolm X, Bob Roberts, the one about a Japanese guy in Iceland....

Television:

"Thin Green Line" We're faced with mile-high piles of money Sitting in banks Gold bars, credit cards Aeroplanes and tanks Buy, buy, satisfy Call me when you're rich Cheap food, cows dying in a ditchWe're having a hard time Holding the thin green lineWe're faced with out-of-town shopping malls Suburban housing boom Inner city empty lots Damp in all the rooms Bulls and bears, speculators Marks, francs, yen And the baby's crying againWe're having a hard time Holding the thin green lineSo come on down to the bottle bank Make your deposit and relax Nothing's going on behind your back We'll make all the big decisions You just watch the television Smash the brown! Smash the green! Smash the clear! It won't happen hereWe're having a hard time Holding the thin green LineWe watch the last of the species Vanish from the screens And get replaced by killer dogs And their man on the scene There are peeping toms, pop songs Crime and sin and sex All spewing out on newsprint While the forest dies a death They're cooling down reactors While the natives die of thirst They say let's all pull together You firstWe're having a hard time Holding the thin green lineThey say let's all pull together - you first But they never pull together No wonder we're having a hard time Holding the thin green line© TV Smith

Books:

bury my heart at wounded knee, catch22

Heroes:

Aung San Suu Kyi, Desmond Tutu,all who strive for a more peaceful, just world, and curmudgeonly old people, and Samira Ahmed and of course, MY DARLING WIFE!" If there is no human dignity or human rights, then there can be no real Olympics. For the sake of China and for the sake of the Olympics, defend human rights" Human rights activist, Hu Jia

My Blog

the loveliest chinese student

she has suffered much abuse simply for being a good person. CCTV (Chinese Central TV), the state run tv station has called her the ugliest student abroad, which kind of sums up the small minded thinki...
Posted by avalon on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:09:00 PST

don’t spoil enjoyment of olympics ;)

George SaundersSaturday April 19, 2008 Guardian I'm shocked by the suggestion that we boycott the Olympics because of China's crackdown on Tibet. The games are a beautiful reminder that it is possible...
Posted by avalon on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:21:00 PST

Many thanks to SOUTH AFRICAN workers!!!!!!

MANY THANKS TO THE South African Transport and Allied Workers Union Zimbabwe arms ship quits S Africa A Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe has been forced to leave the South African po...
Posted by avalon on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:48:00 PST

China supports Mugabe

basically China will support any dictatorship that doesn't care about it's people, as long as there's some natural resources to plunder in their country. though to be fair, i think western european c...
Posted by avalon on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:04:00 PST

olympic torch london last week

  I'm writing this as a break from my dissertation. I think most of the rest of this month will be spent doing that! Last Sunday we went to London for the Olympic torch relay. It was a beautiful...
Posted by avalon on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:21:00 PST

lies, damned lies and the Xinhua News agency

i watched San Francisco torch relay, at least whatever was visible live on tv. it started at least 20 minutes late, and lasted about 1 minute before the torch disappeared into a warehouse. about an ...
Posted by avalon on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:22:00 PST

thugs and carbon..............

OLYMPIC TORCH ROUTE Torch lit in Olympia on 24 March and taken on five-day relay around Greece to Athens After handover ceremony, it is taken to Beijing on 31 March to begin a journey of 136,800 km ...
Posted by avalon on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:35:00 PST

Kate Hoey on Gordon and that torch..............

  This cynical torch stunt shames us all, Gordon Kate Hoey04.04.08 On Sunday our Prime Minister will collude in a propaganda stunt for China which in the future he may have cause to regret...
Posted by avalon on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:00:00 PST

for HU JIA

His wife is under house arrest, his daughter is therefore probably the youngest political prisoner in the world. his crime? campaigning for aids victims, the environment, human rights, tibetan autonom...
Posted by avalon on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:57:00 PST

one month. T1b*T

i have one month left to do my dissertation,  so won’t be here a lot. just saw really sad documentary about Tibet. info below. the Dalai Lama has stood non-violently for autonomy for Tibet ...
Posted by avalon on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:55:00 PST