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Karim

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About Me

raised in Boston/ Shaolin, wanna-b-musician,love traveling and to see divinely carved lands and the different clay creatures that roam the earth. Novice photography, 2 c shows, museums, film festivals, cafe me. Don't appreciate arrogance or neon pink highlighter bimbos. I have eternal now moments when I encounter chocolate, coffee, teas, sick guitar riffs, off beats, just rulers, making U smile, earth after rain in the sun, anything translucent/ opulescent/ glimmering, insightful quotes like "genius is when you see ten things where everyone else see's one"- the eminence of poetic language, dark hair/eyes, sweet fragrances, dreams, one without a second, , giving gifts from far off lands, courtesy, vast ethos, reading, transformation not information, making people feel at ease, the universals and particulars, sweet cars that I can never afford, palm tress, powerful parables, Mina Loy, , turquoise, ice cream, fruits, the rush of adrenaline, elation states, giving to grey skies, drawing, making love to a guitar, firm handshakes.

My Interests

Cultures, languages, religions/ philosophies, mysticism, cuisines, music listening and playing: art, film, reading informative things, Mina Loy, luminous beings throughout history, meta-observation, unfolding, skull scratching, flossing,-, root meanings to words, travel, writing poetry/fiction, eye love,poli-sci, softening of the heart, when mysti transcendence tangles with the tangible, how innocent eyes are made of glass, lunar lusts, deerhoof molecules, phenomenal existence and its essence, swimming orbits of planets, human relations, sarcasm, making the goons laugh till they choke up so they can laugh some more....

I'd like to meet:

Those of inner most core, the seekers of answers, the kind hearted, rare breed "sincere-atins", people who come to positions based on thought not inheritance, humble individuals especially when they know they have surpassed others in beauty, intellect or wealth-

Music:

many things with guitar-indi rock, ambient melodic rock, reggae, Ethnic music especially middle eastern, indian, mediteranean, or latin. House, Drum and Bass, Techno, Lounge, and Digital Dreams, IDM. Classic 60-90's rock bands (Check out- Lali Puna, Axiom of Choice, Deerhoof, Irepress, Dredg, Mars Volta)

Movies:

old school: The Goonies, Indiana J, Willow, Legend, Neverending Stories, Labirynth (yes with David B) The Conan with Arnold series, Red Sonya, Batman. Then later: True Romance, Pulp, Resevior, The Lion of the Desert, The Message, Fear and Loathing, The Crow, Dark City, Lord of the Rings, Snatch, Lock-Stock, Amelie, The Heart is the most Decietful of Things. There r so many great indi and foriegn films (I really like Persian and French) which I definately prefer over anything coming from Hollywood.

Television:

Is chewing gum for the eyes

Books:

The Quest of Samsara, Gizzy and the Jar of Honey, Photography books,The Quran, Al Shamil al Muhhmadeeya, The Baghavad Gita, Biological Transcendence, The Seven Suh'ah, Ihya Ulum el Deen, Catcher in the Rye, The Incoherence of the Philosophers, Rumi, Evolutions End, Khayyams Rubiyat, Lord of the Flies, some fantasy---

Heroes:

The Prophets not the profits, moms, teachers, students of knowledge and those that burned their place in the scrolls of time.