Let´s see if this works

It takes 5 mins to upload a pic this sucks!! Anyways, this is me and my nephew Ahmad atop of the mitad del mundo monument. I ordered a drink and the waitress didn´t know who it was for hence the pointing.

Ain´t no mountain high enough, bitch!!

This is a statue of the virgin herself standing atop of snakes in Quito. What the hell it´s supposed to signify beats the hell out of me. It´s called El Pancillo.

Hey baby, ehh ehh ehh ehh, every done it in two hempispheres at once??

I am all out of patience these computers suck. Tomorrow I will post some pics of some fine young jungle ladies with yours truly.

Ciao.

Pics!!

My first drunken rampage thru the captial of Ecuador, Quito!!! Mothers hide your daughters!! For some reason this stupid computer won´t upload any more images. I guess technology long reach isn´t long enough for this internet cafe in Cuenca. BTW No Gina I haven´t changed my ticket yet because I left my passport in Monica´s house in Quito and they won´t be back until the 13th or 14th so I will have to see what I can do to get it in the meantime or maybe will have to wait until then. The family that I was speaking of before is Elsa and Ruben. I think one of their daughters owns or knows someone who owns a discoteca or something, that´s what I understood. Also I think that I am going to a concert sometime this week or next, some guy called Diego Torres. I think I have heard of him but didn´t think too much of him. Is he any good?? Who cares I am going with these two peladas and that should make it interesting!! When I have more patience I will post more pics. Ciao

Back in the sierra

Finally got some serious dancing done over the weekend. Some friends took me and my cousin Fernando to some discoteca in a small town outside of Macas to a concert. I was super excited because the only concert I have been to was of the miltary band variety. When I asked who the artist was they said it was a Pablo Noboa a very famous singer. Question marks abounded in my brain so I asked who the guy was and they said that he was the singer of a very popular band in the 80´s who has gone solo now and sings alot of his old band´s most popular songs (sound familar?).

Unlike the Clash the music from the band La Pandilla is pure fromage. It´s all ¨The only person I hate more than you for loving you is me¨type of stuff. The tunes were awful catchy and I ended up singing some of them by the end of night. Thankfully they played some kick ass cumbia and salsa before and after.

These woman down here can dance!! One of them danced so well that I thought I sired a child with her. Got back to the hostel 630a or so and had to get back on the road by 11a, just to go back out and meet up with a friend I had met on the plane from Quito to Cuenca. All in all not a bad weekend.

I also met up with the part of the family which is investigating the the Italian part of my family tree. They are still trying to find out who exactly is the family member that was born Italia and also what part of the boot they are from. I have always been told we were of southern Italian descent,which is fine by me because I have heard that Northern Italians are a bunch of stupid ass jerks.

This part of the family is also the part that isn´t Bahaí, which means they drink and party a whole hell of alot more than the part of the family I am close to. They also own a discoteca or hotel or something and want me to DJ sometime before I leave. Fuck yeah!!!

On a final note, I have been hardly speaking let alone writing much English at all. Aside from Saturday night I haven´t spoken any English at all for almost two weeks. I will probably end up speaking like Manuel from Faulty Towers when I get back.
¨I speak English, I learned it from a book¨

I also have been reading in Spanish although that hasn´t been going very well. I think I will read Don Quijote in English first. I have already ending up re reading Everything is Illuminated which is wonderful btw. Even better the second time around.

Also all out there who know Tami, she will be in town the 16th so don´t nobody make no plans ok? Let´s all meet at chrissy mac´s and go somewhere to dance afterward, even though Tami has probably forgotten all the dancing I taught her, being in limey-landia so long. Take a Salsa class with Georgie for God´s sake lol!!

Ciao

Macas, Ecuador. The jungle!

Hey! In the east of the country right now. Here they call it "el oriente". If you look up a map you will see that I am as close to the Amazon as I am going to get. I am here with my cousin Fernando. He has business out here (computer sales or something) and wanted me to come with to get to know the area.

El Oriente was always a forbidden part of the country, especially for me. My mother would always talk about it in terms of inhostipitable heat and unfriendly cannibals. In reality the heat is quite nice and no canniabls to be found, at least no out of the closet cannibals.

Fernando seems to have many friends out here and many of the female persuasion, and what is better is that he is married and I am not!! All mine, mine mine mine. Gimmie gimmie gimmie!! (do you like my daffy duck? I think it´s quite good).

Best compliment so far: ¨You are North American? That´s just a pick up line, you´re lying. You speak like a Cuencano¨

I also found out a couple of days ago that my generation is the 5th of Italian decent and therefore able to establish residency in Italia. I believe if you are there 5 years they give you a passport, which at this point would be an EU passport. Some members of the family Celleri are trying to recover old perhaps lost documents that state that some great great grandfather or mother was born in Italia and where and bada bing, I can be a guido. Rest assured I will not start listening to bad disco or get an IROC (do they make those anymore?). If anyone has a problem with that I´ll shove a bottle down your friggin throat capise??

Ciao

I am in a bar right now and everyone in here is 13 yrs old ! Very strange ...

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Leaving Quito

Well I have had an eventful week here at the Earth's bulge. The Sun here is so close you can touch it!! I'm all burned up and loving it. Got to make some friends and they took me to a fantastic open air concert where I saw a Military band play all sorts of Latin classics. Quito is the city I would live in if I were to move here. Plenty of bars and culture and music, and friendly women!!

Well it's time to bid adieu to the first city named a City of World Heritage (actually Cuenca is as well but Quito was the first). Hopefully I will have some time in the slower pace of Cuenca to get my photos online so you guys can see me in my new funny hat I bought for way too much money!!!


"In Ecuador you are always under siege. Once you realize that you will be ok"
- Peter Newton

Go Gina, Go Gina

Thanks to dj gina making her debut, we have a new playlist. Hopefully she figured out the ins and outs and you all are enjoying it.

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musica musica y mas musica

para los amores perdidos.. o echado de la ventana...

1. Juanes - mala gente
2. Eliades Ochoa - cuando ya no me quieras
3. La Mosca Tse Tse - patadas en el corazon
4. Dusminguet - manketu
5. Manu Chao - je ne t'aime plus
6. Amparnoia - rumba de perros
7. Andres Landero - flor marchita
8. Aldo del Rio - si me pudieras querer
9 . Don Omar - Pobre Diabla
10. Zeca Pagodinho - Amor, Nao Me Maltrate

Im watching a military band playing salsa! They just played la vida es un carnival! Brilliant !

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Bacterial Flora meet Shoghi, Shoghi meet Bacterial Flora

Ah, it was a match made in heaven. The moment we met we both knew it was meant to be. I often dreamed of meeting her and actually had a premonition of our first moment together. We are now as one and she will never leave me. Everyone says I should not be with you, that I could do much better, but no alas, I know we are meant to be forever and forever, for who makes me as happy as you??

Oh beautiful Bacterial Flora of Ecuador, how did I live my life without you?? Oh wait I remember, I remember once upon a time not going to the bathroom every five friggin minutes and feeling like my stomach is going to explode, yeah that was life before you my sweet. I remember being able to sit thru a meal without wanting to run outside to relieve the increasing pressure buliding up in my bowels.

Wait a moment... I kinda liked myself better without you, oh Bacterial Flora light of my life. I can do much better without you, my love. I will take the tourist friendly meds and slowly kill you and return back to normal.

Now is the time to part. It´s not you Bacterial Flora, it´s me.

On to Quito

Good news, I will be travelling to the capital tomorrow morn to see some more of my family. My cousin Monica her husband Peter (who is American) and my neice and nephew Jesse (who I haven´t seen since she was an infant and is now a model) and Ahmad. Hopefully hanging out with some younger people will help me find a good time. Most of my family in Cuenca are older and and like to speak of digestion constantly. I do love them though, but this chap needs some r and r if you kow what I mean.

Quito is similar to a big city in the US or so I hear in respect to having choices on where to go and dance and drink and socialize with other young people. There isn´t much of that in Cuenca.

I will also be visiting "El Midtad del Mundo" which is about 10 miles north of Quito. The exact middle of the Earth, should be groovy.

Wish me luck and I´ll be sure to take some more pics for you guys.

Ciao

Hey Kids!!

What´s the deal peoples??

I finally found an Internet cafe in the "Athens of Ecuador" Cuenca. I haven´t seen too many Greeks at all but I hear many poets and artists have been born and raised here.

Unluckliy for me and you my cell is not working (A big fuck you is in order for Cingular, 3.99 a month for international service my ass) , therefore I can´t get any pics to you guys until I get back, unless I can figure out the new Digital Camera my mom bought. When I do get back I will post some cute baby pics along with pics of mountains bathed in clouds and a pic of a 30 ft high gold altar in one of the oldest catherals in South America.

Well I am off to enjoy the 70 degree "Winter" they are having down here. Now if I can find a decent bar I will be ok!!

Ciao..

Simple Pleasures (a poem)

Finding you in darkness. After a night of nothing. Sitting there, lonely, like I. You responded to me, as if that's what you where here for. A tap with the foot. You rebounded off the wall. You followed me without question, because I gave you life. Every revolution, you breathed, and I breathed harder. Even when I fell you were there waiting for me. You were right there ahead of me waiting for me to take you home. Waiting for me to make contact to make you move to take you to your final destination.

After this night of zero passion, of lifeless nothingness, I look to you for inspiration, even though you are not alive.

One hundred million billion worship you but you do not live. I will bring you alive, if it is the last thing I do. I can not exist without you breathing, rolling, flying through the air as I intended you to.

I kept you, even though you are not mine. I stole you from no one. You were alone, but never more. You are with me always.

Thanks and Praises due...

Sometimes life can really kick you in the head, knock you out and leave you in the street to rot. Other times you can have a kick ass weekend and it couldn't of been possible without my friends and without music.

Thanks to the North Brooklyn chapter of the New York Green Party for inviting me to DJ their fundraiser at Galapagos and for all my friends who came out and entertained me that evening.

Thanks to Leo for letting me know that Skampida was playing at the Knit last night. Amazing show and an amazing group of guys. Quite a send off to South America for me!!!

Thanks to the website that let me print out fake Gift Certificates for free for a girl who is not blonde, repeat not blonde!!!!

I love all you guys and check the website often for pics of my beautiful family and city of Cuenca, Ecuador.

Paz Amor y Libertad

DJ shoghi

Cada vez--Negrocan
Libre Solterito Y Sin Nadie--Leo Dan
Es Preferible--Peret Y Tonino Carotone Y mistretta
Fruta Fresca-- Carlos Vives
Pa la Cama--Ivy Queen
Punnaney Tegereg--Little Lenny
Soldering--The Starlites
Ba Ba Boom--The Jamaicans
Kinky Reggae--Bob Marley & The Wailers
Sacred Darling--Gogol Bordello
Se Va, Se Va... Far Away From Campo--Dusminguet
Malegria--Manu Chao
Sour Grapes--Descendents
The Sound of the Sinners--The Clash
Reach Out I'll Be There--Four Tops