Anything artistic, including daydreaming... I do sooo much there is never a dull moment or time to be wasted, defianantly not enough time in one day! Sometimes just doing nothing, but reflecting is good too!(I think I may have too many interests to list, but I will try a little bit)Quantum Physics, Oreintalism, bilinguists and multilinguist, science of all kinds including things such as social anthropology, martial arts, volunteering, cooking, writing, reading, painting, drawing, sculpting, sewing, photography, making soap and other natural products,board sports(in my old age I have graduated to now riding long boards only to surf the pavement with the greatest of ease LOL, is it just me but have wheels gotten awfully small the past 15 years??)travelling, composing music, playing music, singing, listening, natural medicine, working out, hiking, mysticism, acting, theatre, intellectual conversation ect ect ectIam a dandy at heartAl hamdu lillahil ladhi ahyaa na ba'da maa amaa tanaa wa ilaihin-nushur
Grant Lee Phillips... Who is this EMO guy and why is he following me??? Someone who believes Daniel Johnstons I Did Acid With Caroline to be quite romantic.. And just about anybody who is kind and interesting. Oh, an d the last of the Famous International Playboys.....
Umm... anything from John Zorn to The Moldy Peaches and everything in between. Sure sure I will submit an actual list later...Huh lets see how much music that I enjoy I can actually remember to list here: I'm From Barcelona Editors My Morning Jacket Cat Power Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah! Franz Ferdinand Sufjan Stevens Ted Leo Stars Magentic Fields She Wants Revenge 70's grooves Old Standards NPR (especiallyA Prairie Home Companion) sometimes I wish I lived in Lake Wobegan...then I wake up and realized it was all a dream.... The Stones Future Pilot AKA Blood on the Wall Tears For Fears ...The Hurting album.. The Stars Death Cab for Cutie John Spencer Blues Explosion (yeah yeah Pussy Galore too!) Inspiral Carpet Captain Beefheart Marc Almond They Might Be Giants Billie Holiday O-Hum Fugazi/Minor Threat Rasputina Tom Jones Basimma and Folla The Toadies The Cramps Russian composers The Birthday Party (any Nick Cave and Blixas Neubatin as well) Anything MOD!!!!!!!!!! Curtis Mayfield Pulp Tommy James Blur Psycho and Rockabilly (Gots to love the Teddy Boys) Ska Misfits The Dickies Oh older Social D Bowies Tin Machine Adam Ant (warriors of the Wild Fronteir) Speciman Zero Le Crash Xymox Christian Death Current 93 Pavement Hum Captain Beefheart The Meat PuppetsJanes Addiction Bob Mould XTC Biz MarkieEmotional Fish King Missile Big Black NY Dolls Lena Horne Bob Dylan Public Enemy Shirley Bassie Ben Folds Five Sun RaWeezer (ok lets just say most slacker rock) Sound Garden back in the Sub Pop Rock City day Johnny Cash and other good ole country favs Jethro Tull Captain Beefheart Motorhead anything Brian Ferry Grant Lee Buffallo Eno (I even like Enos brother) MC5 The Dirtbombs The Vaselines The Pogues Possom Dixon Alien Sex Fiend Shudder to Think Sonic Youth~Sonic Death days! Almost all 60's and 70's garage Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Morrissey and the Smiths Mercury Rev Rod Stewart Mingus Sunny Day Real Estate The Plasmatics Run DMC REVCO ok new wave junk and 70's and 80's retro stuff Echo, Psych Furs ect Danzig/Samhain The Damned World Music Yeah you know Super Grass type junk and I suppose I already stated MOD The Kinks DOC Iggy Pop (I did say garage) Turkish , French and Arab rap (I dont know it just sounds better to me that way?) old Persian, Sufi tribal and traditional Middle East tunes (world music again) love my Dots!/Teargarden ok anything glittery and glammy Circle Jerks Mudhoney Dinasaur Jr Joy division Wire The Amps Trail of Dead Bauhus , Tones on Tail yada yada Dead Kennedys Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Blink 182/Buddha ya! Boss Hogg Godbullies Pixies yeah Black Francis &co Butthole Surfers the earlier years when they where really weird! Flaming Lips Micheal Penn The Strokes CHarlatans mo jo nixon tom waits old standards of all kinds love Cole Porter tunes! Heddie Ledbetter Rancid/operation Ivy Rocket from the Crypt T-Rex poster children placebo hole NOFX My Bloody Valentine Possum Dixon Sebadoh Badly Drawn Boy Stone Rose Miles Davis Natacha Atlas Cheb Khalid Barry white Bjork Punjabi jams Shaggy Music Machine older Radiohead Black Flag Belle & Sabastian Suede (think I covered this already) Music Machine (yeah covered it) Pizzacotto 5 and other Japaneese gems Daniel Jonnston and hey you know what??? I have been listening to music for so damn long I am sure I forgot to mention alot! and I dont give a ****! (hoot) (get ur mind outta of the gutter!) I even like Enrique Englasias when he sings in Farsi although I must say for myself Farsi khoob balad neestam lol!XCETRA AND SO ON.......ummm disco is my guilty pleasure..shhh, dont tell no one!!!!!!
You know I am not a really big movie goer,( I prefer documentaries) however I enjoy some comedy noir and most decent and thought provoking indie films and the truley bizzare....and other stuff too.. other things such as The Color Of Paradise, Paper Moon,Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Harold and Maude, French Twist, Baxter, Raise The Red Lantern, The Big Lebowski, The Pillow Book, Like Water for Chocolate (I like to make love to a man through food), Morocco with Marlene Dietrich hot & silly!!!! Frank Capra always makes me smile..
The Discovery channel, the History channel, Link TV,The Daily Show, The Munsters, The Young Ones, Are You Being Served, The Vicar of Dibley, Family Guy, Curb your Enthusiasm, American Dad, Family Guy, Six Feet Under,3rd Rock, Man about The House, The Kumars at ..42, The Sopranos, The Chris Isaak Show... You know I have satellite so I could mention alot here.. The thing is I just never watch anything regulary but I enjoy these and others.
The Koran, Candide, Siddartha, Gertrude (anything from Herman Hesse), Words of Paradise(Rumi), Rubayat of Khayyam and Hafez, The Deer Leap, Oxherding Tale, hmmm Lots of none fiction, almost anything regarding Orientalism...just too much to mention here. My glammy side says not to forget to add Oscare Wilde. I dream in a color that reading helps me create.
Jimmy Carter and Charles Dickens are so coooooool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I have no heroes. I do not believe in them. Be your own hero! La llaha illa Allah, Muhammad Rasul Allah