love, avocados, the "secret"/the law of attraction, living with gratitude, yoga, ballet, modern dance, social justice, theatre, performance art, human sexuality, art, music, political activism and social change through art, travel, raw food, burlesque, drag shows, Sarah Silverman, NATURE, love, rare filet mignon, anything hippy/psychedelic/groovy, independent and foreign films, forests, sushi, independent and foreign theatre, mixed media fusion, West Asian (Arab) politics and culture, singer/songwriters, languages, slam poetry, homestar runner, south park, love, beatniks, communism, comparative literature, collage, sculpture, wheel throwing/ceramics, civilization/human nature/the human condition, sociology, anthropology, astrology/the zodiac, cooking, vegan cuisine, beaches, spicy food, meadows, daisies, baby kittens, ferris wheels, love, shrooms, LSD, marijuana, fruit, birth, musicals, mystery, psychoanalysis, musical instruments, painting, Ouija boards, GLITTER, really soft sand, sunshine, lollipops, Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, the Spice Girls, boardwalks, pools/chlorine, suntan lotion, love, wonder and amazement, warm tinglies, sex, butterflies, one woman shows, one man bands, beauty, everything.
I'd like to meet:
intelligent passionate people who care about art and humanity. And your mom.
Music:
Psychadellic Rock (Jefferson Airplane, 60s Beatles, early Rolling Stones, Doors, Zeppelin, Strawberry Alarm Clock, CCR, Donovan, Hendrix, Chocolate Watch Band, The Velvet Underground etc.), Radiohead, Bjork, Sting, Bob Marley, Interpol, Dredg, Sara Bareilles, The Mars Volta, Sarah Harmer, Regina Spektor, Sublime, A Perfect Circle, The Album Leaf, Fiona Apple, Idia Arie, The Arcade Fire, Postal Service, Tori Amos, Ani DiFranco, Trevor Hall, The White Stripes, Coldplay, Metric, Polyphonic Spree, Of Montreal, Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, Damien Rice, Yma Sumac, Jason Mraz, Iron and Wine, Rufus Wainwright, world music, classical (mostly opera, French art songs, Debussy, and Chopin), Folk (Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, etc.), Jazz (John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughn, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, etc.), Friends (The Falling Game, The Fading Elysium, Drew Rodney, Kavita Baliga, Alodiah Lunar, MRI, Head to Wall, Enemies Lay Waiting, DanRan, Cellofeign, Dogias, Andrew Herringer, Modern Subject, Aunovos, This That and the Other, Ellen Warkentine, GREEN PILL, Melissa Ward, Inverse, The Glass Machine, Izzy, Sputnik Monroe, Alicia Rundquist, Eric Zippel, Najib Saab, Jeremy Shannon) musical theater show tunes, classical instrumental Arabic music, intercultural/multicultural music, System of a Down, Papa Roach, Tenacious D, RAI, Lebanese jazz, Pacifica Radio
Movies:
Pulp Fiction, Human Nature, Requiem for a Dream, West Beirut, Divine Intervention, Jesus is Magic, American Beauty, Superstar, The Secret, What The Bleep Do We Know, Wet Hot American Summer, Train Spotting, Some Like it Hot, Magnolia, Y tu Mama Tambien, School of Rock, The Hours, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Barefoot in the Park, Plaza Suite, Gia, About Schmidt, Quills, About a Boy, Poison Ivy, Wag the Dog, Sophie's Choice, Snow Falling on Cedars, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Dancer in the Dark, Frida, Garden State, Whale Rider, The Professional, Office Space, Almost Famous, Boogie Nights, Adaptation, Ma Vie en Rose, Amelie, Rabbit Proof Fence, Rat Race, The Quiet American, Anne of Green Gables, A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries, Talk to Her, Waiting for Guffman, Finding Nemo, Tarazan, Dumb and Dumber, A Mighty Wind, Muriel's Wedding, Malcom X, House of Spirits, Dancer in the Dark, Threesome, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Kill Bill, Kill Bill Vol. 2, The Big One, Roger & Me, Being John Malcovich, Bridget Jones' Diary, George Carlin, Jeanine Garofalo, and Maggie Cho stand up, Frida, A Walk on the Moon, After Dark My Sweet, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Safety of Objects, Rent, I Heart Huckabees, Basketball Diaries, Holy Man, Connie and Carla
Television:
Captain Planet, Wonder Years, Small Wonder, Grey's Anatomy, Out of This World, Life Goes On, South Park, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, FSTV, LINK, Spongebob, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Project Runway, newfound appreciation for Fresh Prince of Belair recently...
Books:
Manufacturing Consent, Who Rules America?, Stupid White Men, Pity the Nation, A People's History of the United States, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, Slapstick, Civilization and its Discontents, 1984, Green Eggs and Ham, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, I'm Glad I Look like a Terrorist, Malcom X, Orientalism, An Actor Prepares, The Stranger, Misdirecting the Play, The Artist's Way, Vocal Wisdom, The Druze Faith, The Israel/Palestine Question
Heroes:
my mom, Darleen the hippy lady who did not sell out, my cousin Rabeh who survived cancer at 16, children who have to spend their childhoods enduring inhuman circumstances such as war, military occupation, child soldiering, prostitution, starvation, major illness, intense labor, poverty, homelessness, isolation, imprisonment, enslavement, etc., people who spend their lives trying to improve the lives of others, Amy Goodman, George Carlin, Janis Joplin, Grace Slick, Ani Difranco, Che, Michael Moore, Cliff Faulkner, Chuck O'Connell, Jack Black, Stan Marsh
