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Still Disconnected

I have a narcoleptic laptop

About Me



.. you know,
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My Interests

Nothing in All (sic.)

I'd like to meet:

these people:UMOJA VILLAGE 62st & NW 17 Ave

Music:

anything from Blackstar to Uncle Tupelo; from Cultura Profética to Kirk Franklin; from Return to Forever to The Guess Who; Andres Cepeda to Habib Koité; Blood, Sweat & Tears to Irakere; Ilan Chester to Billy Joel; Pink Floyd to Banda Black Rio; Locos Por Juana to Mahavishnu Orchestra; from Rachmaninoff to Caetano Veloso; Brad Meldhau to Los Pericos; The Police (& Sting) to LTJ Bukem; Wilco to Juan Luis Guerra; Stevie Wonder to Guaco; from Steely Dan to Stone Temple Pilots; Wayne Krantz to Simón Díaz; Mano Negra to Mint Condition; Jack Johnson to Fela Kuti; Steel Pulse to Jarabe de Palo; Ojos de Brujo to Guns'n'Roses; Carlinhos Brown to Outkast; Fania All-Stars (incluyendo a Ruben, Willie, Celia, Hector, Cheo y el resto) to Robi Draco Rosa, Sidestepper to Martina McBride, Less Than Jake to Gene Krupa, Arrested Development to Soda Estereo, from Guaco to... well, you get the point. y este es solo el comienzo, ya que cada dia conozco algo nuevo. hey, as long as it grooves and moves, i'm on it like white on walls.

Movies:

hard to sit down and watch them without falling asleep. the ones i've seen most recently: Office Space, Ronin, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Dave Chapelle's Block Party, What the Bleep Do You Know?. fond of: Fight Club, Toy Story, The Usual Suspects, The Sounds of Music, Shawshank Redemption, Top Secret, and a few more i can't remember right now.

Television:

gave mine away, i spend enough time staring at the computer screen

Books:

don't own enough of them. currently reading 'Travels in Hyperreality' (Umberto Eco), "Views From A Spiritual World' (Gurdjieff), among others. i believe in ADD only in principle.

Heroes:

those who choose not to

My Blog

abouTuoba

if you've been here before, this is from the 'About Me' section, i didn't want to delete this because it still holds truth. and because i tend to forget what truth is. or at least where it lies...not ...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:52:00 PST

wrong and proud

i'm willing to make an attempt at understanding the unknown. the answers that escape us all, they're welcomed at my door. of course what i'm referring to is the utter unpredictability of womankind, an...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Mon, 29 May 2006 12:40:00 PST

the seriousness of all this nonsense

Sometimes such as now, i wonder about the plausibility of this e-reality entitled MySpace. Well, not really a plausibility, at the moment the definition of plausibilty escapes me, but i know it's not ...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:48:00 PST

under.standing SRRs [partially unfinished]

for a number of months (roughly 27 or so), i have been in what could be considered a 'funk' when it comes to establishing a SRR* [succesful romantic relationship]. i have made feeble attempts at the t...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 01:56:00 PST

simple ancient wandering

i'm starting to enjoy the false sense of anonimity that i find in 'blogging.'..yesterday i was trying to understand our need to create dualities out of most situations. you're either for or against. t...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:35:00 PST

(past) midnight mental meanderings

in here i find empty solace. what is it about late-night mental meanderings that seem so full of nothing? the emptiness that i speak of is not meant negatively. nor positively. it is just there to rep...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 01:05:00 PST

sometimes something's nothing is worth two pennies

'i'm trying to make a dollar out of what makes sense,' Mos Def said. And in this world where being lost, or rather, finding your way, is the norm, i just feel like a rabbit in the headlights. Like a ...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 09:41:00 PST

5.7.5

as i wait for my ears to clear up so i can get back to mixing my track for the Village Fruit II CD, i sit idly and make inane attempts at the old form. if i could confuse myself more. . when you hav...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Por primera vez

Al no saber que decir por primera vez, digo lo que dije la última vez que dije que era la segunda y última vez que me enamoraba: 030215.7@0023MIA* En esta vida he nacido para amar. En otras, he ...
Posted by Still Disconnected on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST