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6/12/2006 san blas left me speechless...... so ill just post a few links for u to check out:
where i stayed.
who live in san blas.
what the govt of panama says.
do check out my pictures too!
if ur into beachy, relaxing, rustic kind of spots... san blas is the most stunning place u could visit... ever!
L
ps. coincidentially enough, today i found this article (in spanish) in la prensa, on pierre-dominique gaisseau, a french cinematographer that filmed an unreleased documentary called iberogun: god is a woman, about the kuna culture in san blas. i would have liked to see that out. pity.. 6/6/2006 overheardlocation: panama city airport.
characters: two ladies.. one in her late 30s, the other one in her mid 20s.
their description: tacky as hell!
older tacky chick: oh hiiii... how r u doooin?
younger tacky chick: fiiiiine.
older tacky chick: is that ur baaby?
younger tacky chick: yeaaah.
older tacky chick: u do remember me riiight?
younger tacky chick: mmm yeaaah.
older tacky chick: u remember my name riiight?
younger tacky chick: yeaaah.. i saw u standing ova thereee.
older tacky chick: ur babies blue eyes (more like light brown eyes) from ur man? so preeetty. u have any more baaabies?
younger tacky chick: just two more. (2 kids around ages 4 and 6 running all over the place)
older tacky chick: well.. stop havin babies. ur tooo pretty to have any more babies. look at u.. ur all skinny and pretty and stuff.. xcept u need to lose that baby tummy fat. (grabs baby tummy fat)
whoa.
L
ps. any panamanians interested in me recreating the scene.. just call me! 5/17/2006 boy friendsis it odd that i cant befriend any straight guys? especially being here in panama? i do have my old straight boyfriends... im stuck with those! hehe. but... make new ones? ive had a goood few chances being here.. and.. i have passed on those! i find no connection. and mind u... i dont treat my male gay friends as if they were my 'girrrlfriends'. oh no i dont. never have! theyve never replaced my girlfriends. i just dont know whats up. any ideas? please let me know.
L 5/15/2006 YES to immigration reform..... duh!the facts:
the border: the crackdown on illegal immigrants at the border is clearly not working. the problem has been goin on for decades with a clear no fix. strengthen the borders? there is always a way in. always. the status: why turn illegals into felons if they havent violated any criminal statutes? civil codes are the only violations in question. there is a+ 5 year difference in that. the economy: illegals immigrants do pay their taxes, yet they are not refunded. so much money has been paid into social security from fake social security numbers and this ends up supporting nobody else but american workers. the issue:
the real issue is about economic justice, about a modification to the current labor laws. a much needed immigration reform will not only call for a legalization of undocumented immigrants, but will also call for the rise of the current living standard and the downfall of the minimum wage rate. the fix:
support the bill proposed by ted kennedy and john mccain: all that have been illegal in the country for +5 years will be allowed to gain legal residence, and a number of temporary low-skilled worker visas will be created. this reform will not only legalize a major portion of illegals out there, but will push a true labor movement that is so needed in the united states. the results:
the labor movement will prevent the exploitation and will improve the working conditions all across. it will benefit the lives of not only immigrants, but of all americans. simple? yes. duh!
L 5/6/2006 colbert cares!stephen colbert... true american hero! his act at the white house correspondents dinner was... uhm... a-mazing! his sarcasm truly showed, once again, an insight on the bush administration self-interested proceedings.
george w bush... not impressed with him. and why would he be when he and his administration were wittily slashed? wonder if he noticed at all... on his own.
 4/30/2006 belfastbelfast is my new favourite city. its big enough to not get bored, and small enough to not get lost. what about a city where not only u can still smell fresh air... but u get a fabulous view of the country side from just about any point..? i loved every walk i had there.
city centre is nothing but a truer city's center. everything is going on there. the train station, the buses, all commerce and big shops. but as for shopping i have to say my favourite was walking down lisburn road to check out all the little boutiques. very affordable too for how artzy they are.
weather was blissful! i got lots of sun.. not one time it rained... except when it poured on us in giants causeway.. of all places! giants causeway was amazing.. breathtaking.. and slippery! i felt miniscule.. it sunk in right then how big this world is and how much more there is to see, appreciate, and learn from. i know.. all of that right there, right then.
i was sooo missing my girlfriends there! it was great to see them again... and see how they do the day by day. then.. there was the night by night. heres the list.
cafe vaudeville - good tacky.. that art nouveau thing. but loved the decour! crowd is a total *ignore.. so its pretty much all about the place and the people u go with.
whites - best by far. hipster, slash, everyone and everything goes. music, ur 80s, 90s hits.
the nothern whig - a tat of a cheesy crowd, but ur great new and old house music hits. bad wine list.. but great mojitos!
v bar - went there for 2 pound cocktails! and quiz nite. our group of people won the quiz challenge that nite.. 100 pounds! 10 each. cool!
the bot - u cannot get any more typical irish sports bar than this!
milk - real popular club. heard its a rough crowd usually... well.. not on monday nite for.. gay nite! props to belfast tranny titty von trapp for the lovely time...
as for food in belfast, must recommend rain city. not only my friend emma works there... but its just really good cuisine. eastern-western fusion. their cocktails are lovely... so is their goat cheese salad and curry mussels! the restaurant is owned by paul rankin, famous chef and restauranteer in belfast. besides it.. we did the late nite food, after drinking. the list..
esperantos - ur kebab joint w questionable items as tops.
dragon rendezvous - how bout a sit-in dining place, white top table cloths, open till 3 am? they have best orange duck! 71-75 donegall pass.
libertys - i had to wait forever for my homemade hawaiian pizza.. but it was goooood and well worth it! 44 bradbury place.
i also checked out newtonards, where my friend claire is from. and port rush.. lovely little surfing town.
about belfast here:
L 4/11/2006 feliz martes santoi can now say i experienced holy week in seville. it was... whoa! quite sumptuous.. and quite different.
in a nutshell, u watch processions of brotherhoods that walk their monuments around the streets of the city center all throughout the week. the one i saw was the Hermandad Los Javieres, properly called the Hermandad y Cofradía de Nazarenos del Santísimo Cristo de las Almas, María Santísima de Gracia y Amparo y San Francisco Javier. got milk w that? ;)
 Santísimo Cristo de las Almas, Cristo de Pires Azcárraga, 1947
 penitentes, who carry the crosses and wear their brotherhood's traditional 'antifaz' which preserves anonymity. many of them walk the procession barefeet as a form of their personal penance, hence their name.
 nazarenos, who, as the penitentes, wear their brotherhood's traditional 'antifaz', but also a 'capirote' conic face cover, very reminiscent of... yep. u got it.!
 Virgen María Santísima de Gracia y Amparo, Virgen de Fernández Andés, 1936
more information on this brotherhood and semana santa in seville here.
L 4/8/2006 elegantly decadent!i fell in love with juergen teller the day i saw his pictures for the spring/summer 2003 marc jacobs ad campaign of of winona ryder, soon after she 'borrowed' mjs pieces from saks back in 2001.
 it was the beginning of his future representations of the decadence of elegance ... which brings us to his 'les demoiselles de la nuit' spread in w magazine, april 2006.
   its beautiful garbage... beautiful!
i heart teller.
L 3/31/2006 junk mail is hotoh junk mail.. we love to hate it! but at times there will always be one that will shine amongst the usual penis enlargement magic and awesome weight loss meds ones... like this one:
sounds like a deal, right? he calls u ur friend, and he'll give u 10% of 15mill! riiight. so if anybody is interested.. heres his myspace profile he can be contacted through. he's single too! picture included... L 3/29/2006 cadiz.. a bit late!i spent carnival in cadiz w the hottest and most intelligent boy in the whole wide world.. abe. haha.. how cheesy am i! we stayed in a town very close to cadiz called puerto de santa maria. it is a very picturesque little town, right by the guadalete river in the cadiz bay. our hotel, bodega real, was just opened last summer. for a 4 star hotel we paid a rather cheap price. i have to rate it a 9.5.. as the eggs in the morning were gross.
we ate at little bars, for the most part. they are located everywhere.. literally! we dined both nights at pasta gansa, we surely loved it that much. we could not coordinate in regards to food and open restaurants due to the siesta.. but we managed!
we went to cadiz via renfe and via taxi one nite. the carnival itself was rather different than the usual carnival festivities i have heard of in other places, like the new orleans mardi gras, carnaval in rio de janeiro, carnaval in panama, different even from the carnival in tenerife! people dress in costumes, mostly kids and group of friends, and stumble around town. i didnt see much drinking.. perhaps cuz i was so drunk myself the whole time! chirigotas were cool. they are small groups of people that go walking around town, all dressed up in uniform costumes, they sing and play instruments. their songs are of various themes, political, humourous, celebrity, etc. they even participate in contests and such. rad!
L 3/15/2006 Volverit is such a good feeling the one that memories and remembrances give you. but there is no better feeling than the one to experience them again, to return to them. i never really talked about how i felt when i left panama or st louis behind. i just always knew i would cherish more my feelings when i returned.
i cannot wait to see pedro almodovar's latest film, volver. a celebration of women, it explores subjects such as death and maternity, around the need to return to fix unresolved situations.
for those of you who don't know me, i am a avid follower of good soundtracks. this will definetetly be one to keep. here are the lyrics to this movie's official song, a well known tango.
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volver
by estrella montoya
lyrics by carlos gardel
Yo adivino el parpadeo
de las luces que a lo lejos van marcando mi retorno. Son las mismas que alumbraron con sus pálidos reflejos hondas horas de dolor. Y aunque no quise el regreso siempre se vuelve al primer amor. La vieja calle donde me cobijo tuya es su vida tuyo es su querer. Bajo el burlón mirar de las estrellas que con indiferencia hoy me ven volver. Volver con la frente marchita las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien. Sentir que es un soplo la vida que veinte años no es nada que febril la mirada errante en las sombras te busca y te nombra. Vivir con el alma aferrada a un dulce recuerdo que lloro otra vez. Tengo miedo del encuentro con el pasado que vuelve a enfrentarse con mi vida. Tengo miedo de las noches que pobladas de recuerdos encadenen mi soñar. Pero el viajero que huye tarde o temprano detiene su andar. Y aunque el olvido que todo destruye haya matado mi vieja ilusión, guardo escondida una esperanza humilde que es toda la fortuna de mi corazón. Volver con la frente marchita las nieves del tiempo platearon mi sien. Sentir que es un soplo la vida que veinte años no es nada que febril la mirada errante en las sombras te busca y te nombra. Vivir con el alma aferrada a un dulce recuerdo que lloro otra vez. **************************** L
2/12/2006 best of nyc fashion weekthis is the best that the 2006 olympus fashion week in new york had to offer us...
god bless amanda lepore.
favourites so far: heatherette (obviously), betsey johnson, marc by marc jacobs (so street, so real). im very surprised to see that my favourite collection for the project runway show was kara janx! although santino's was real smooth. check new york metro for pictures of all collections.
12/12/2005 myGeographic Personality Testwho wants to move to nashville with me?
L
City Reviews at CityCulture.org 12/5/2005 *smile*days have become a bit brighter... "light at the end of the tunnel", sort of thing. so i'm posting a few hilarious links that have cheered my days lately.
L 11/18/2005 MESHImy close friend meshi has passed away. it all happened when she was leaving the casino she usually goes to after she's done with work at the casino she actually works at. she lost control of her car, and that was the end of it all for her. she was pronounced dead at 4.30 a.m. at 6.13 a.m i received the phone call from joe, her boyfriend. i couldn't believe what he was saying. i could not stop shaking. my first thought was that i knew i had to be there, next to him as soon as possible. then i thought then of the people i knew needed to know, family aside. those were luli, tati, and barry.
this whole week has been a whole lot of hanging out with joe, his parents, and meshi's parents who arrived the next day it happened. also going to the funeral home with them all, going to see her on wednesday, and hanging out with her friends here also, which helps tremendously.
so... how do i feel like? i feel sad, depressed. and upset. i feel like god made a mistake that monday morning. that's exactly what i feel like. now, i was raised very religiously, but it is now that i've grown up, and having been exposed to other beliefs, that i have come to see things from a different perspective. i just feel like, if god is love, and god is good, why take away someone's life this way? what kind of god is this? when she had dreams, ambitions, plans. it was not her time to leave. and this is why i question religion, i just have to. i feel it's a way to find an excuse, use an excess of words that are supposed to calm you and accept things, rather than make you think, make you express real emotions that cannot be canalized in any way, but need burst out. it almost refrains you from acting normally.
many questions other have been asked: who was she with? was she drunk? or falling asleep on the wheel? did she have her seatbelt on? now, these are questions i dont dare to ask. im not interested in having them answered, not right now. these are facts, not opinions. i question opinions and beliefs, not facts that cannot be bent, cannot be changed, and don't really change the course of things.
so what do i have now? i have the memories. the memories of meshi being jolly, positive, and always having something nice to say. memories of hanging out together, dealing with the every day in this foreign land to us. memories of her beer drinking happy self, her dancing like nobody is watching, her accessorizing with makeup like everyone is watching. memories of her touring me her beautiful country, meeting important people in her life in argentina, family and friends. all are memories of her big white crest smile encrusted all the time like she was paid to do so. i will miss her oh so much.
L 10/27/2005 greengreen. i'm switching my page color to green. why? well ,for one, i guess i need to embrace the color that is even in my last name, and move past those memories of kids making fun of me because of it. green village... green light... green light in a village... light in a green village... and so on and so forth.
green is the color of nature. it symbolizes growth, harmony, freshness, hope. it indicates safety not only as free passage in road traffic, but also when advertising medical products. it is also commonly associated with money. that's always a plus.
green is the most restful color for the human eye. why do you think trees are green? i've heard it can improve vision... hmmm. so what if sometimes green denotes lack of experience, ie, a 'greenhorn' is a beginner. so what if it represents envy. green represents life.
green is the national color of ireland. many friends i have there. they are all here below. i miss them all.
this has just been in my mind... 9/16/2005 T33n G1rl Squ4dx0rx!!9/14/2005 "Go F*** Yourself, Mr. Cheney!"Dick Cheney laughs off being cursed on camera by Ben Marble, a physician/rocker/artist with a newborn child that lost his house because of Hurricane Katrina. Not too funny. Let's not forget Cheney's infamous incident in the Senator floor when he told Senator Leahy "go f*** yourself". Ironic, isn't it? Except instead of Cheney losing his house in the hurricane that day, he was actually shopping for a $2.9 million one next to Donald Rumsfeld's. Must be nice.
Thanks to OpED for the story.
L 8/11/2005 between you and meshort film by queens/nyc native patryk rebisz, composed of regular still photo shots.
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