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emanuel

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About Me



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.........................................I really love the way that light moves through space, through windows and camera lenses where it is directed to a point that forms those chemicals on that paper or those electronic particles into something constructive and fun. so, I think about the process a lot .

My Interests

urban edibles: a community database of wild food sources in portland! needs helpedibles.orderofr.net living things,fizzy drinks ,fast bikes,collectives,turning "space" into "place" ,transcending the space-time continuum, blue skies, The Universe, cities, wikipedia,communication,semiotics,playing music on the porch,looking at the map, eating vegetables, thinking about where i am in relation to the mountains around me while dancing with disco lights shining in my eyes,rollerskatingrunning basslines ,wilderness,spanish, raw food, the wonder of crude technology, the desert, making films,analyzing films, urban landscapes, and pop culture,and how these things reflect and affect the human psyche,raising consciousness,I'm down with O.P.P.(other peoples perspectives), People getting together,taking what we've been given and doing something great with it, C

I'd like to meet:

i want to hang out with all of my friends that are already on myspace- and nerdy PSU students.

Music:

Pop music, anything really technical, Bach,Of montreal,melt banana,deerhoof,the slits,Esma redzepova,andreas Dorau,southern folk songs,three mile pilot,cocteau twins,drunken boat,the smiths,boban markovic, david bowie,descendents,stevie wonder,zounds,taraf de haïdouks,league ,booty bass at a dance party,80's deutsche,tekno pop versions of albanian folk songs-robot music,cumbia, electro-whatever,stuff with accordions..street musicians, Italo disco, math folk

Movies:

Black cat, white cat,cinema paradiso, bodies rest and motion, UFOria,raising arizona, movies that take place in the desert southwest that have car chases and lots of T&A. Freaks and geeks, bagdad cafe, moonstruck, Do the right thing, cherry 2000

Television:

If I had cable, I would be addicted to cartoon network, It's a good thing that I don't have cable.

Books:

A walker in the city, cometbus, an intimate history of humanity, italian days, books on how to make things and do things.books that analyze film.The power of myth, joseph campbell, all about love, bell hooks, do you believe in magic-annie gottlieb, "holes".. james baldwin...lately, I have been reading film scripts

Heroes:

All of the people who are curious about the universe and who make an effort to make the world a better place, and the people who do the best that they can with what they have.

My Blog

Food for thought

I am in the Food For Thought Cafe in the basement at PSU. This is the collectively run student cafe, full of your activist, anarchist, "earthy" people. I like it. It is one of the kinds of places that...
Posted by emanuel on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:43:00 PST

Kansas-the vacation

I came back to portland from kansas, I realized that this is really home now. It felt like the place I should be, I think. Kansas has a comfortable feeling from being connected to the past. This was a...
Posted by emanuel on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:48:00 PST

Back to kansas

I was flying in the airplane. I saw the fields of green surrounding desert towns. I wondered if the people in the towns ate the food that came from those fields. I see the great expanse of land below...
Posted by emanuel on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:02:00 PST

Back to the land

Back to the land. So many people that I know want to go back to the land. Not all of the time, they don't want to drop out of society like those 60s hippies who created the experimental community cal...
Posted by emanuel on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:45:00 PST

Keytar, love of neighborhoods

I want a keytar. You know, the keyboard that straps onto you like a guitar. I like those. Either that or a mini keyboard that I can hold vertically and play my keyboard licks. Like an electronic accor...
Posted by emanuel on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:14:00 PST

Random thoughts

Mr. T. Said It. I AM somebody. and "Don't be nobodies' fool." Love your mother. I get all bent outta shape about things and then I dwell on them, but I am working on letting it all go. That is all tha...
Posted by emanuel on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 03:32:00 PST

I want to climb a mountain

I use this as a metaphor for all of the things that I like to do. I love to climb mountains. It is really a rewarding activity. I like the process of looking at whatever I encounter along the trail, t...
Posted by emanuel on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:55:00 PST

random thought about punks and activism

What came first? People dedicated to social justice and freedom, or punk rock? The answer is obvious. So, why do anarcho-punks feel that they have to have a certain look or fashion or lifestyle in ord...
Posted by emanuel on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:51:00 PST

The weekend in manzanita

This weekend, my friend Michael graduated from PSU.Later, a group of us went to manzanita and stayed at a beach house. It was pretty amazing. There was a geodesic dome yurt that I slept in. THe coast...
Posted by emanuel on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:03:00 PST

thoughts on the universe and activists

 Anarchist, Activism, Universe Basically, it is about moving your life in a direction in order to live according to your ideals, and to move in a direction to live to your full potential. an...
Posted by emanuel on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:40:00 PST