ARYA
I'd like to meet:
Rush, Arch Enemy, Hacride, Nile, Job for a Cowboy
Met Gojira, Behemoth and some of DAATH!
Music:
DEATH METAL
HACRIDE
BEHEMOTH
several videos from NILE
JOB FOR A COWBOY
Movies:
All time favs: The Emerald Forest, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Serenity, Dune, Blade Runner, Exorcist (any movie with Priests fighting the Dark Lord!), Matrix 1, Hellraiser, all Tarantino, Superman (the ORIGINAL!), Batman Begins (love all those superheroes), Contact; Monty Python, Jim Carrey, Jack Black, Sacha Baron Chen (comic deities), Gladiator, The Last Temptation of Christ (best original soundtrack of all time), Apocalypse Now, Brazil, A Clockwork Orange, American Beauty, Sin City, Garden State (yes...i LOVE good chick movies), Hustle and Flow, Pan's Labyrinth, Ushpizim, Headbanger's Journey: A History of Metal and almost any film with: Clive Owen, Nicholas Cage, William Hurt, William H. Macy, Jeff Bridges, Oliver Platt, Zach Braff, Natalie Portman
Buddhist: Little Buddha, Kundun, Milarepa, The Cup, Samsara
Eagerly anticipating: The Secret, Rendition, Gone Baby Gone, We Own the Night
Television:
No time to watch regularly scheduled programs...Music videos!TMNOD series: Californication, Dexter, Huff, Brotherhood, Durham County, Big Love, EntourageOn DVD: Carnivale, Arrested Development, LOST, Firefly, Six Feet Under, Alias, 24, Roswell, X-Files
Books:
Buddhist scripture: Sutras (particularly Abhidharma and Vinaya), Commentaries (particularly Bodhisattva and Madhyamika related) and Saint biographies ("Namtar")
Currently studying 2nd year Chinese language (Mandarin)...last credit towards my degree!
Enjoy reading texts from other religious systems, particularly fond of Jewish storytelling, history and Jewish religious texts in general (Pirkei Avot, Shulchan Aruch, 'Guide for the Perplexed' by RAMBAM, Baal Shem Tov etc.)
Heroes:
Spiritual:
Shakyamuni Buddha;
His Holiness the Dalai Lama;
Mother Teresa
Musical:
drumming influences...
formative years - Neil Peart (Rush), John Bonham (Led Zeppelin), Ian Paice (Deep Purple), Bill Ward (Black Sabbath), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Tim Alexander (Primus), Nick Menza (Megadeth)
current - Brann Dailor (Mastodon), Tomas Haake (Meshuggah), Peter Wildoer (Arch Enemy), Mario Duplantier (Gojira), Kevin Talley (Daath), Olivier Laffond (Hacride)
