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Name: Jeremy
Country: Argentina
Metro: Cordoba
Birthday: 2/7/1987
Gender: Male
Interests: the love of my life: evan; marley, cat, snowboarding, horses, politics, fútbol, windsurfing, rafting, the art of noise, travel, mini-coopers, art; lots of things!
Expertise: politics, film, music, travel, the world
Occupation: at the moment: many
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Member Since:
1/28/2005
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| i really don't think i want to post here again on a regular basis (and yeah, i know i haven't)... but i had to say SOMETHING about my country's win this week in the world cup qualifiers! OH YEAH! argentina is in the world cup! VIVA ARGENTINA!!!!
now the games begin.  hehe, was there ever any doubt? i do not think so!!
anyway, bueno... evan and i are married, we had a fucking wonderful wedding and wonderful honeymoon en brasil y mexico y chile y los estados unidos. and we're back home and loving it. si, that is a VERY truncated version of these events. so what? hehe. if you care, if you know me, and have my email, write. i will answer. otherwise, i'm afraid, si, i am not going to resume writing here. but for some reason, i just can't pull the trigger on ending this... final.
it is obvious xanga has seen it's day... but i am afraid to just shut this down. mostly because it's a diary of me and e's amazing adventures... long ago. long ago.
so, si, i do not know if i will ever post again here. and i'm sorry if i have not kept in touch with the friends i made here. lives spin in... and then out of range again, do they not?
i want to say, that i do hold a place in my heart for many of the people i met through xanga. who followed me and e's adventures along the way back then, and all that. and you know, life is really just a series of adventures. right?
and we're off on another adventure called marriage now (si, que, i cried a few tears over that wonderful amazing incredible fantastic revolutionary... EVENT! revolutionary? my word. welcome to it.)
i think that life is a journey. a journey from birth to death. not always pleasant. many times wonderful. sometimes painful. often extraordinary.
and often mundane. de nada. c'est la vie. 
i hope your lives are filled with love and adventure too. and i thank you for being a part of my life... you are missed... you are so missed. and i will say this too... it did hurt me at one point to find out that some of you were not real. but i guess that is just a part of it. de nada.
anyway...
if this is indeed my last entry, then adios. adios my friends. adios.
and so much love,
jeremy
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| evan i will be married in less than a week. i am so insanely happy. 
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| so it's election time here, and it looks like a defeat for the ruling party all around. this is perhaps for the better. but, really, i haven't been that into it. we cannot vote. so we are just observers. and there are now over 1000 confirmed cases of swine flu here. and something like 80 deaths. three new cases in cordoba in the last report. oh my.
yes, it is also winter here. we went snowboarding last weekend at las lunas. i love that place. the road between argentina and chile was closed for like four days this week. too much snow. looks like a great year for boarding! this global warming thing has an upside.
i haven't been posting very regularly like i planned. life seems to get in the way. our wedding is next month. there are so many details. evan's family is coming down, but nobody from mine is. oh well. my friends are, so that's all that matters.
i didn't write about this because, well because. but my granny passed away in january. it was pretty sudden. we were there. she was really the only family i had. it was like a big huge part of me got cut out. hard to explain. i was with her when she passed. it was sureal. it was very peaceful, and i was happy about that, because i was afraid she would be in a lot of pain, but i don't think she was. it's made me think a lot about family and what that is, and that's forced me to look at the way mine is just not there and how fucked up it has always been. the thing is, i've created my family, which is evan and me and all our wonderful friends, here in argentina, in mexico, in the states. that is my family. i love mi familia.
god, i'm 22 years old. how did that happen? most people my age are done with college and stuff, and starting their little careers, or whatever. the people we met in los angeles just graduated or will next year. my friends from high school graduated from college already, well, some of them did, some are doing the ten year plan, haha. and i'm still drifting... well, not really. i just don't know where this ship is headed. but i think that's ok. because i think it's the journey not the desitination that life is all about. because really, the destination is death, and everyone's headed for it. i'm happy with the course i'm on. it's taken me many places and i've met so many awesome people. and i know there are many more roads to travel, and people to meet too.
so yeah. i love my life. lust for life. that's a reference to the video down there, if you care to listen. old style punk. lust for life. we heard it at a party this weekend, so i went looking. it's perfect for this entry. and the other one was getting a bit stale.
so this is a good point to make an observation about generalisomo obama. your american presidente. i'm sorry, it seems we've all been misled with mr. obama. he fucking lied when he ran for president. he said many things. and now he's done the exact opposite. for instance, he said he was against the horrid defense of marriage bullshit. but recently he defended it. he said he believed in an open and transparent governnment... yet recently he's done all he can to make sure the imperial presidency is maintained. yes, he may sound god when he talks, unlike his predecessor who never learned english too good, but he's a slimey bastard just like george. i could go on, but it's pointless. obama is just another tool of the corporate elite that is america. don't be fooled by the color of his skin. pay attention to the people he appoints, the people who run his departments, the men behind the curtain. i'm not entirely sure this is better than bush at all. it could be worse. 
de nada. that's about all the rant i have in me tonight. it's late. i am headed to BsAs very early tomorrow for business. two days in the capital without e. sigh.
i'll answer comments some other time. sorry. 
-j
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| "As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!"
- woodie guthrie, this land is your land
it's good to see my friends tim and riccardo are still out there. london? with a girl? what is this world coming to. sigh.
so, before i get into today's rant, i just thought i'd mention to the americans reading this, that world cup is less than 374 days away. this time it's in south africa. it does seem like a long time ago now, the last world cup. we were doing our drive up to the states. maybe we should plan another long drive for next year? it was fun watching and listening to the matches in different countries. hmm. something to think about.
so, i was reading this article online by noam chomsky. i think most people who read or have read my xanga will know who that is, so i won't explain. noam was saying how ridiculous it is for americans to feign shock over the fact that there was torture going on at guantanamo. he rightly pointed out that the mainstream line was that bush had betrayed everything the united states stands for, as if never before had anyone gone down such a dark path. chomsky called bullshit, and i have to agree.
i think americans tend to bask too much in a white washed version of their own country's history. after all, america was founded by white men, landowning white men were the only ones allowed to have a say in this new idea of taxation without representation is tyranny thing, although only as far as having a vote, they've always been more than willing to employ people not allowed to vote in their armies. for indeed, the new republic excluded all non-whites, all women, all non-landowners from this new idea of representation. yes, slightly different from the english model, but quite filled with holes also. then there is the scandalous treatment of the indigenous peoples, which was nothing more than genocide. and then of course, slavery, and their treatment of every minority you can think of. i think it's called the tyranny of the majority. and it's alive and well in california, at least, with that proposition 8 thing.
hehe, i went from thomas jefferson to gay marriage in one paragraph. 
the whole notion that america has some sort of history of lofty feel-good ideas is rather ludicrous, well, to all except most americans, who bask in collective amnesia to their long history of what can only be called realistically, imperialism. so really, from this perspective, the crimes and felonies of george w bush are nothing more than status quo for american presidents. one small example: cuba. have you not as a country sought to destroy the first popular uprising in cuban history through economic and sometimes military means? and done so for 50 years? it was after all americans who stopped cuba's original revolution in its tracks and established cuba an american colony back in the late 19th century. even though no one in cuba was asking for help in overthrowing the spanish, the u.s. sent "help" anyway, and cuba once again was occupied by a foreign power.
chomsky's article makes several important points about torture, and american torture specifically. it is not new, americans have a long history of torturing people to get what they want. in more modern history americans have tended to outsource their torture, prefering to keep it hidden and pretending to themselves its not happening, or if it is, they aren't doing it, and therefore it's okay. GFWB continued that outsourcing model, but also instituted new models, for example, abu grahib and guantanamo. again, i guess americans can stomach torture in their name if its done on foreign soil, right? guess what, it's still being done in your names, even under your wonderking obama.
my favorite line from chomsky's article:
"Small wonder that President Obama advises us to look forward, not backward -- a convenient doctrine for those who hold the clubs. Those who are beaten by them tend to see the world differently, much to our annoyance."
yes, america, you still hold the clubs. and obama is showing little difference from bush in that regard. bush claimed he could hold "prisoners" in guantanamo indefinitely, without charges or trials. the u.s. supreme court said not so. yet obama and his henchmen also claim they have the right to hold some "prisoners" indefinitely. spiting in the face of the very constitution they swore to uphold, just like generalisimo bush did. very sad indeed, that obama is no just another liar in chief.
and i think i'll stop there. and close with the last line from noam chomsky's article:
"Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon, not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity, but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead."
what crimes still lie ahead, mr. obama?
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| so, i was down in mendoza for most of the last week. i see no one really commented here, except the special few (hey toms, and, well, me, haha). no matter, i will start ranting here again anyway. it is not really all about comments. it is about a place to write. en english. i do not write any more now that i am not in the university.
the nights are getting colder now. a return to that time of the year we like the most. this year we will be going snowboarding a LOT if i have my way. we are really only restricted by evan's schedule now, haha.
there's an article in la nacion today about some sort of outrage from american catholics over obama speaking at notre dame, which is i think somewhere in ohio or indiana. so i did a little investigation, haha. my my, this does sound rather american... and catholic. what's all the upset anyway? it seems american catholic bishops anyway are raising the flag of religious fundamentalism over obama's opinions on what seems to be the third rail for christians, and now catholics, or i guess it always was (other than little boys and priests, but that was a long time ago, right?) ABORTION, oh my. i guess these bishops and their supporters see obama as the enemy, because he has a rather moderate view about abortion, that is, a woman's right to choose rather than their opinion, which is something like abortion is evil, condoms are evil, even abortion that would save the mother is evil, even abortion as a result of rape is evil... etc etc etc. yes, the rabid fundy right is alive and well and living now among the pillars of morality that is the catholic church.
in la nacion, they talk about a scandal in, where else, florida, where a local bishop was photographed, um, being intimate with some woman on a public beach. which is just fine, because you know, at least the woman was, well, a woman, and not a 12 year old boy. so, whew, cool, right?
but then, jp2 and bennyhitler 1 were/are all for a return the inquisition.
they have no qualms about death camps, gitmo, crusades, waterboarding, molesting little boys and girls... but rally the blissfully ignorant over a woman's right to choose what to do with her own body. bravo. or is that heil!
enough about the catholics. sound and fury, signifying nothing. oh one more. i read a line i thought was cool, from a catholic, no less: "As protestant fundamentalists effectively make an idol of biblical text, catholic fundamentalists, in obedience to the Vatican, make an idol of the papacy." um, yes.
speaking of nutty women, this sarah palin person is still in the news up there? and anybody really cares what she has to say about... what some bimbo miss california thinks about gay marriage?! what? i guess i missed something. it gets stranger. some nutjob preacher is saying that the palin-miss california "alliance" (again, i missed something, not sure what the "alliance" thing is) was actually predicted by nostradamus, and it can be found in the book of revelations also. dr. davis logsdon, dean of the university of minnesota's school of divinity is quoted as saying that this alliance is spelled out explicitly in revelations as "a harbinger of the End of Days... right after the four horseman of the apocalypse." oooooooooooooooooooookay. gotta go back and read revelations again, because i don't recall anything about sarah palin or miss california, but then, i guess i was skimming.
and no, i did NOT make that up.
this dr. logsdon also said that in 1555 nostradamus predicted this "alliance" when he wrote: "the slayer of beasts (palin, i guess) shall meet the barer of breasts (miss cali, right? or did i mix them up?)." so okay, since logsdon sees that line that way, he's probably misreading revelations also. never mind, false alarm. logsdon's a nutjob.
wait, one more, some reporter asked this so-called doctor if the "alliance" meant the world was about to end. he said, "that is the best case scenario." hmmmmm. i wonder what the worst case scenario would be for doctor logsdon?
remind me never to go near minnesota. or alaska. or, now, i guess, california.  do you not now see why i am no longer a student!!!?
i am more than slightly worried that you people up there have been all infected with some kind of thing more deadly than this swine flu thing, and it's going after the brain cells first. it appears to have started in either california or alaska, and spread now as far as minnesota. as i wrote this, i am organizing a mission of mercy with our good friends in venezuela and cuba to send medical teams and supplies so that we can nip this thing before it spreads further. it may be too late...
random thought for the day
have you ever noticed that this stuff, the world over, i can only assume, is always, well, shaped like, well... see...
that is all. for now. 
-j
EDIT - i can't comment, i keep getting "acceso denegado". oh well, i guess that's why xanga is dead....
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