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Micah

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

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you

Music:

Burt Bacharach, Bill Withers, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Pauline Oliveros, Shuggie Otis, Ultramagnetic MC's, Electric Wizard, Inside Out, The Clash, Caetano Veloso, John Zorn, Jorge Ben, toto, Eric B. and Rakim, Joni Mitchell, YOT, Brian Eno, Derek Bailey, M-Team, Bob Dylan, Chihei Hatakeyama, Masada, Frank Sinatra, Sonic Youth, Souls of Mischief, Tetsu Inone, Bert Jansch, Explosions In The Sky, Fushitsusha, Thin Lizzy, Bun-Ching Lam, Sonny Sharrock, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, Miles, Dolphy, Mingus, The Band, Yabby You, Big Youth, Curtis Mayfield, Painkiller, Scorn, Godflesh, Khanate, Napalm Death, Isaac Hayes, Mose Allison, godspeed you! black emperor, Black Sabbath, MONO, Cymande, Seu Jorge, Neil Diamond, David Axelrod, Steely Dan, Burn, Bowie, Frank Zappa, Ghost, Neil Young, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Sly Stone, Boris, Jungle Brothers, Black Star, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Gabor Szabo, Hendrix, Terry Callier, Thelonious Monk, El Chicano, Amos Lee, Allen Toussaint, Art Tatum, Colleen, Fela, Hank Williams Sr., Iggy Pop, Steely Dan, Springsteen, Janes Addiction, The Kinks, Marc Ribot, Chris Bowden, Material, Minor Threat, Nick Drake, Nico, Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Pink Floyd, Joe Jackson, Radiohead, Rob Burger, Ambrosia, Cheap Trick, Ikue Mori, Pete Cosey, Bill Laswell, Sleep, Sunn O))), Pete Rock, Kawabata Makoto, Naked City, did I say Bad Brains yet? Capt. Beefheart, and I wrote a little bit of music for Remarkable Current too...

Movies:

Film Noir, Samurai (chanbara), anything with Hobbits in it, Shaw Brothers Kung Fu (Liu Chia-Hui), Raging Bull, Royal Tenenbaums, Marx Brothers, Zatoichi, I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Planet of the Apes series, Hero, Lady Snowblood, Baraka, Island of Lost Souls (1933), Man with the Golden Arm, Lone Wolf & Cub series, Taxi Driver, Bourne Triliogy, Syriana

Television:

Al Jazeera

Books:

Soul on Ice

My Blog

Derek Bailey

Derek Bailey (January 29, 1930  December 25, 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement.Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation...
Posted by Micah on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:08:00 PST

Mellotron

The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s.The Mellotron supervenes the Chamberlin, which was the world's firs...
Posted by Micah on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 04:47:00 PST

The Kingdom of Pattani

Patani (region)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaPatani (in Malay, Patani, also sometimes Patani Raya, or "Greater Patani") is a term that has been used to describe a region in South Thailand consi...
Posted by Micah on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:22:00 PST

al-Khidr in the Quran

Khidr in the Qur'--nIn the Qur'an the story begins by Moses' declaration to his servant/companion that "I will not give up till I reach the confluence of two oceans".[25] Moses and Joshua had begun to...
Posted by Micah on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:16:00 PST

Abul `Abbas, al-Khidr saws

"Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.The Prophet said, 'In this Way, you have no more faithful companions than your works.'How can these works...
Posted by Micah on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:09:00 PST

The Prophet’s (saws) Manners

He was the most generous, the most valorous, the gentlest. He cast his eyes down more often than up, and appeared shyer than a well-sheltered young girl. When someone came to him with a happy face, he...
Posted by Micah on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 04:00:00 PST

Advice from Habib ’Umar bin Hafiz

Among the best of the books of the righteous, that are widespread in the Muhammadan nation, are the books of the Imâm Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ahmad Al-Ghazzali, Imâm 'Abdul-Wahhâb Ash-S...
Posted by Micah on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:57:00 PST

The five qualities (tastes) used to classify aloeswood aromas

¨ Sweet -- Resembles the smell of honey or concentrated sugar¨ Sour -- Resembles the smell of plums or other acidic foods.¨ Hot -- Resembles the smell of red peppers when put in a fire.¨ Salty -- ...
Posted by Micah on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:32:00 PST

The Ten Virtues of Gaharu

It brings communication with the transcendent It refreshes mind and body It removes impurity It brings alertness It is a companion in solitude In the midst of busy affairs, it brings a moment of peace...
Posted by Micah on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:31:00 PST

Aloeswood- A Japanese perspective

Rikkoku (Six Countries)During the Kamakura period, (1185-1333) the Japanese began using raw woods as incense, and to present these woods in casual settings as well as in formal entertainment and relig...
Posted by Micah on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:22:00 PST