CURRENT MISSION

Shake this world up from below, pick it up and turn it on its head

ABOUT ME

Karl Martin Odin Engström (rojinegra) - an easy going dude with a taste for life. Enjoy coffee, américa latina, laughing, rum, diving, machetes, red/black stuff, sleeping, sun, zapatistas, the ocean, travelling, music fesivals, summer, friends, autumn, walking, carrots, exploring, meeting new people...

...or simply a combination of travelling, writing and drinking. Like to spend as much time as possible with my friends but also getting lost alone in the dirty back streets of any Latina town.

I have travelled extensively through Central and South America and it is really impossible to choose a specific favourite place or country. That said I would definitely like to spend more time in Colombia and Nicaragua, two places I truly adore.

Interests

See Personal description

• writing
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• scuba diving
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Enjoy anything from reggae and techno to power electronics and oi. Some all time favourites include New Model Army, Brighter Death Now, Billy Bragg, Gladiators, 4-skins, The National, Flogging Molly, Moljebka Pvlse, Helios, Sun Kil Moon, Klinik, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Front 242...

Literature: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Gabriel García Marquez, Tacitus, Subcomandante Marcos...
And as always Narco News, Liberación and Rocky.

Movies: The Big Blue, Amores Perros, Cidade de Deus, Bladerunner, 21 Grams, La Milagrosa, The Thin Red Line, The Beach, 28 Days Later...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Too many to mention really but...

...sitting around the fire freezing my ass off while watching the sunset in the mountains in highland Guatemala.

Working the burned out milpa with Milecio and the zapatistas of my favourite EZLN village Ibarra in the Lacandona jungle.

Drinking my way through Central America with my old friend mr Freeborn Andreas.

Hanging out in Medellín with some of the most amazing people I have ever met.

and so on...

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