Post-Colonial Studies and Theory; Caribbean Literature and Culture; Anything written, produced, sung, performed by the rest of us who until recently have been told that our existence didn't matter within the dominant paradigm. Quantam theory, Asian culture and Eastern Mysticism; the Tarot and Elemental Mysticism; Personal power, strength and Courage (and how one attains these things). The world.
My Japanese Name Is...
Jiro Asukai
What's your Japanese Name?
You Are a Peacemaker Soul
You strive to please others and compromise anyway you can.
War or conflict bothers you, and you would do anything to keep the peace.
You are a good mediator and a true negotiator.
Sometimes you do too much, trying so hard to make people happy.
While you keep the peace, you tend to be secretly judgmental.
You lose respect for people who don't like to both give and take.
On the flip side, you've got a graet sense of humor and wit.
You're always dimplomatic and able to give good advice.
Souls you are most compatible with: Warrior Soul, Hunter Soul and Visionary Soul
What Kind of Soul Are You?
I'd like to meet:
People my wife thinks are cool... let me clarify. My wife is a successfully budding artist and writer whose mind is constantly on the go. Her friends, I have found, are also of the same ilk. They move in tandem with the four elements and strike at the world with vigor and enthusiasm...they make my brain cells crumple into themselves at the sheer courage of their art and life.
I want to meet people like these: Artists, thinkers, and intellects. I also want to meet people who know the urgency of changing the world we live in. People who know that love is the origin and to understand anything we must love it€”even if we hate it. I want to meet people who can add to my existence and remind me of all those things in heaven and earth that we cannot see but exist and affect us everyday.
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Music:
The remnant of my childhood of limited access to music is that I listen to things that are readily available and that catch my ear. (That's the caveat). It's why I have Il Divo and Eminem on the same playlist. It's why I have an exclusive playlsit for my Trini Soca and Calypso, and a playlist with funny songs by Wierd Al Yankovic and Reel Big Fish, along with a playlist shared by the Mambo Kings, Frank Sinatra and Adrea Bocelli (the first two were added during an "A Mi Manera/I did it my way " kick I had a few months ago.
Movies:
My wife and I share of love of wierd independent foreign films (think Takashi Miike). At the same time we do documentaries, anime, and we're constantly checking out on-line shorts. Beyond this though I anm still an island boy in the big city, so all of those big budget, mind drivel, loud explosion, Keanu Reeves types saving the world flicks appeal to me as well, but most of these are watched in complete secrecy because sometimes we just want to be entertained... width="425" height="350" ..
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Television:
This is my realm of total entertainment, where I turn my brain off and wonder when exactly when we'll see Tom Welling flying again on Smallville or if The Rock or Stone Cold Steve Austin will ever return to Monday Night Raw. Don't get me wrong, when no crap is on I gladly switch the National Geographic and check out the stand-offs between the lions and the hyenas and when I want to be tripped out by absurdity there's always South Park, Robot Chicken and Family Guy... (for a helping of absurdity with a side of reality please let us not forget "the Boondocks").
Books:
I've read so much in my lifetime I almost think it ridiculous to make anything of the books I'm reading. I've got a couple of groups, the first being my Caribbean books like, "The Caribbean: An Intellectual History" by Denis Benn, "The Wretched of the Earth" by Frantz Fanon, "The Black Jacobins" by C.L.R. James and I've got the fat collected volumes of Marcus Garvey's "The Black Man" on my desk as I write this. But then there are theory books as well, like Homi Bhabha's "The Location of Culture," Gyatri Spivak's "A Critique of Postcolonial Reason" and Antonio Benitez Rojo's "The Repeating Island" (the last one falls into both categories...kinda like the Fanon books too).
Remember the whole thing at the beginning about burn-out though? That's where "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy" by Douglas Adams comes in. The five book escapade into the absurd possibilities of thought and existence really helped pull me off a couple of ledges and they are by far worthy of much recommendation.
Heroes:
Look these guys up:
C.L.R. James, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Marcus Garvey, Maurice Bishop, Bob Marley, Fidel Castro... and all the other Fight-da-Power personalities that I've come across in my research on the Caribbean.
