all must begin somewhere

  for long i had in my hands a journal and pen, wherever i went. but isn't that obsolete now in digital society? i better get with the times....

i'm ravenskullprince, or....... bento ramones da conceição. ramones is not a surname but part of my first name, "bento ramones".....just like someone can be called "josé carlos" or "ana maria", but with the twist that my mother had only a single disc in her shelf and it was "ramones" - self titled, by, of course, the band ramones. pernambucana in a small countryside town, she thought the name would make others think of me as a gringo, exotic, maybe united statian, just like the punk men in leather jackets she saw on that black and white cover.....but of course preceeding it with "bento" might have foiled her plans from the start. it only gets me a few laughs when i introduce myself.....

i'm tall, hunched over, a bit scrawny. white as a ghost, what northeasterns call "galego"..... the father's family traces back to some of the dutch invasion, and that might be why... i consider myself a bit of a punk, but i still wear glasses... my girlfriend is a beautiful gothic woman, and she is my everything...

at the moment my days are a third spent searching for a job after getting fired about a month ago, a third studying to apply to a public university and a third playing the guitar in my room or with elize, my girlfriend, if i'm lucky. she is quite the busy bee as well.... but we are planning on living together soon, and then i will see her everyday. nothing would be better..

i might write here a bit of my days, and a bit of poetry, or whatever else comes to mind...music, maybe. elize is getting me into goth rock. as a result, my week has been serenaded by bauhaus and their wonderful dissonance of chords...