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Sumit Hussein Agarwal

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About Me

Chapter I: Window sill

Chapter II: Le Toilette du Condamne

Chapter III: Cause = Time

Chapter IV: Plastic Jesus

Chapter V: Closer

Chapter VI: Anthems for a 17-year Old Girl

Chapter VII: My Body is a Cage

Chapter VIII: Lover's Spit

Chapter IX: Crowd Surf Off a Cliff

Chapter X: Its All Gonna Break

Chapter XI: And the World Will Be as One

Chapter XII: Across the Universe

My Interests

Aliens, angels, loud clangy guitars, and the fate of humanity.

I'd like to meet:

Nobody. Not kidding.

Music:

Honestly, most Canadian stuff nowadays...David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, Blur, Blonde Redhead, Garbage, Franz Ferdinand, Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, Dan Black, Gorillaz, Cibo Matto, Boards of Canada, Bjork, M83, Sigur Ros, Mum, KC Accidental, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Stars, Kanye West, Reverie Sound Revue, The Apostle of Hustle, Valley of the Giants, Frank Black, The Arcade Fire

Movies:

'Adaptation', 'Lost in Translation', 'The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly', 'Barry Lyndon', 'Rushmore', 'Magnolia', 'Boogie Nights', 'Spider-Man 2', 'Lord of the Rings Trilogy', 'Mystic River', 'Million Dollar Baby', 'A Very Long Engagement', 'Gattaca', 'Zoolander', 'Signs', 'Neon Genesis: Evangaleon', 'Contact', 'Monsoon Wedding', 'In the Mood for Love', 'Batman Begins', 'Three Kings', 'The Breakfast Club', 'Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)', 'The Village', 'Signs', 'Serenity', 'Pather Panchali', 'Brokeback Mountain'

Television:

Evangelion, Firefly

Books:

'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World', 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle', 'Sputnik Sweetheart'... getting a pattern? Basically anything by Haruki Murakami. 'The Great Gatsby'. And any Calvin and Hobbes, if that counts.

Heroes:

its all gonna break.
when i was a kid, you fucked me in the ass
but i took my pen to paper and i passed
you know i love the shit cause the shit it tastes so good,
i got pastures waiting in the woods.........
its all gonna break
treat me like a sign, sounds like so/oh well
i know times like these are the hell
and when you do the tricks, the tricks look so good
i got buried rumors waiting in the woods,
and they try to climb awake
and call me over,
skies they rape and skies are sober.
minds they fake and minds rolled over
it's good, it's good, it's good.
i know your dying
i know it's true
i know theirs seven thousand things you rather be and rather do,
and i know........that you fuck what you love
and you love what you fuck.
i'll keep them out girl, i'll keep it true
i'll do anything inside the skin of you
cause i know that the sound of your heart
is a god i can trust,
like a man ,
not a boy
i don't love i just fight with the violence in ourselves
its all gonna break
and you all want the lovely music to save your lives
and you all want the lovely music to save your lives
keep it coming
their is no lie to save your life
keep it coming
this is the lie to save your life
why are you always fucking ghosts
why are you always fucking ghosts
why.........
it's been such a long
life that we trust
your heart is a whore
and love is just lust.
you want what you can't
and you can't cause of fear
we've got to get
out of here
why are you always.........
its been and it settles down and fights to love.
its all gonna break.
-Broken Social Scene

My Blog

Separation of sports and politics?

There are many who, despite an opposition to China’s policies, prefer not to mix politics with sport and thus are against any protesting of the Olympic torch relay or opening ceremonies. Commonl...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 10:25:00 PST

New York, NY

I gonna be in NY. Werd. March 25 to 31 cuz a job interview.Hit me up, y’all. Especially Dan (last time I just crashed at your place and didn’t even meet your wife!).831-594-0286...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:56:00 PST

Major & Minor - And the World Will Be as One

He looked over the vista, as if seeing the curvature of the Earth, and then looked skyward, imagining the world around him being presented as a singular face to the universe at large, twirling rapid...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:55:00 PST

India

So I'm thinking about going to India. Late Jan, early Feb. Something like that. My parents built a house there in Gwalior that I designed so I have to see how much they butchered it. I'll probably do ...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:28:00 PST

The End of Greatness (Major&minor)

Almost impossible to believe or even contemplate: our lives, for all their intricacies, delicacies, pains, and moments of pure, utter, unmitigated ecstasy, are somehow just a conduit for an almighty u...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:19:00 PST

OiNK - face2face peer2peer

Time to keep the music alive, folks!I propose that to celebrate free music, music community, and the fact that nothing pulls people together better than a good song we should have a gathering in downt...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:32:00 PST

today is the saddest day in the history of music

but it would be imprudent to say why
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:40:00 PST

16-year old SF musician loses hand on 4th July

You all know I don't normally repost shit, but this one merits it. A 16year-old musician had her hand blown off in San Francisco on the 4th ofJuly by a prankster with some explosives. Its real. Check ...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:20:00 PST

Where should I live?

Santa Cruz, CA?San Francisco, CA?New York City?Hawaii?Toronto, Canada?Portland, OR?Krakow, Poland?Chime in, everyone....
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:37:00 PST

Burying the Dead (3)

He tucked it between the pages so that he could later send the passage to her (what else were book jackets if not integrated bookmarks?). It wasn't so much to mark the location of the words, but to r...
Posted by Sumit Hussein Agarwal on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:19:00 PST