The Bible, The Qur'an, Water, Pneumatology, Being an Old Maid and acting like your Grandma, wearing the curtains, wearing my nightgown as daywear, Hijab, Being a Child, making films and lateral documentaries, making music, Islam, Bizzare Victoriana, Islamophobia, Orientalism, Marxism, Derrida, Melancholia, Anarchy, Environmental and Social Justice, The Sublime, Spinoza, Peter Hallward, Pirates, Rosenzweig, Kant, Hegel, Architechure, Spritual Time, Messianism, Sufism, Neo-platonism, Talmud, Haiti, Toussaint L'Overture, drooling over English Narrowboats and Dutch Tjalks, Colourful and Old Fashioned Clothing, Traditional Dress, Religious Clothing, Mixing Histories and Histories that are Mixed, The History of Medicine, The History of Science, The History of Psychology, Surrealist Film & Art and Music, The New Left, Maoism, Media Criticism, Cultural Studies, The History of the Sublime, The history of Melancholia, Dolls, Insects, Puppets, Kate Bush, Black Metal, Grindcore, Noise, Folk Music, Dancing to obscure 80's music, eating an egg without breaking the shell, 4 AM, mustard, chillies, horseradish, garlic, sunsets and dawns, The Thimble Islands, Marmite, DIY, animal skulls, trompe l'oeil painting, toes, wildflowers, sonic metal sculpture, masks, Edvard Munch, J.P. Witkin, Louis Wain, Commedia dell'arte, Gothic revival architechture, Vaudeville, Kabuki Theater, Noh Theater, Japanese ghost stories, Hungarian Folk Music, The Muppet Show, Volcanoes, Hawaii, Islamic Architecture, Islamic Art, Wild roses and lightning bugs, Autumn, Pre-Raphelite Art, Turkish Classcal Music, Turkish Puppet Theater, Chinese Opera, Bunraku Theater, Apple Tea and Turkish Delight, Snow at sunset, fog at sunrise, Central Park, English Meadows, Aubrey Beardsley, Man Ray, Julia Margret Cameron, Vincent Price, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Buster Keaton, Lillian Gish, Monty Python, The Prisoner, Max Ernst, Johannes Phokela, Whistler, Turn of the Century Etchings, Mexican Ex-Votos, Halloween, Eleanor of Aquitane, Goya, Turner, Alain Renais, gardening, oil painting, travel, geography, Harold Lloyd, my cats, emotional geography, itjihad, terrorism, democracy, Revolution and revolutions, 9/11, the History of New York City, Islands, Desert Islands, Isolated ecosystems, Modesty, Beauty, Love, Innocence, Brussel Sprouts, Portmerion
The Humankindness Cow to give me some of her milk. Jesus. The lunatics who took over the asylum. Old Friends and classmates. Friends of Friends. Kind hearted people with wicked senses of humor. People with sharp tounges, sharp minds, and fertile imaginations. Ornithologists and Bird Lovers. Filmmakers, Musicians, Commedians, Puppeteers, Actors, Artists and Activists. Dancers. Sufis, Orthodox and Coptic Mystics, Muslims, Mumin, Jinn, People of the Book, Jews not Zionists, Christians, Sabians, Patripassianists, Marxists, Communists, Anarchists, Socialists, Black Panthers and Maoists and Punk Rawkers. Planetary bodies and dead philosophers. Living philosophers and Muppets. People who neither conform nor rebell. No Flirts! No Fornicators! No Marriage Proposals! No Games! (except for Fortunatus!)
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This cover Marc Almond does of the Bill Fay song 'Cosmic Boxer' makes me a very happy girl indeed!Yes, please! (In no order) Sufi Music, Missing Foundation, Kate Bush, Brian Eno's 'Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)', Stevie Wonder, J.S. Bach, Abrahim Esker, Jeffery Leiser, The Hurdy-Gurdy, Current 93, Baby Dee, A Tribe Called Quest, Coil, Nurse With Wound, The Legendary Pink Dots, Lady Sovereign, Shirley Collins, Small Creatures, Mecca2Medina, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Maddy Prior, Karen Dalton, Method Man, Manu Chao, Serge Gainsbourg, Snoop Dogg, Backworld, Dead Kennedys, Crass, Rudimentary Peni, Wire, Devo, Antony and the Johnsons, Little Annie, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave, Swans, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, Devendra Banhart, Muslim Rap & Hip-hop, Steeleye Span, Kate Bush, 16 Horsepower, Public Enemy, June Tabor, Andrew Liles, Lustmord, Brother Ali, Arcade Fire, Wu Tang-Clan, Syd Barett, Nick Drake, Kid Congo, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Slayer, Zenigeva, Plinth, Michael Jackson, My Bloody Valentine, early Dead Can Dance, Chopin, Mozart, Larsen, Handel, Monteverdi, Beethoven, Victoria (the composer), Thomas Tallis, Bach, Wanda Landowska, Human Bone Bicycle Sciences Industries, Bikini Kill, The Beatles, Vetiver, Godspeed you black emperor!, Tiny Tim, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Calexico, Crash Worship, Madonna, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Plasmatics, Born Against, Rasputina, Autechre, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Butthole Surfers, The Specials, Radiohead, Bukka White, The Angels of Light, early Cure, Mercury Rev, The Tear Garden, Coco Rosie, Roxy Music, The Order of the NCS, Foetus, Six Organs of Admittance, Alice Donut, the Lunachicks, Nina Simone, Elizabeth Cotten, Skinny Puppy, Bob Dylan, Felt, Joy Division, Schubert, Chopin, Funeral Hymns, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Requiems, Faust, Makating, Roots Reggae, Dancehall, Nina Hagen, Missy E, Merzbow, Southern Death Cult, Early Christian Death, The Gun Club, Killing Joke, Leadbelly, Suede, Coldplay, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Memphis Minnie, Merzbow, Charlemagne Palestine, The Slits, The Vanity Set, Johanna Newsome, Sisters of Mercy, TV on the Radio, Built to Spill, Can, The Parlour Trick, LeTigre, SPK, Stereolab, Cosy Fanni Tutti, Nasheeds, Qawwali, Yusef Islam, Edip Akbayram, Marc Almond, Muslimgauze, Nature and Organization, Strawberry Switchblade, Bill Laswell, Bill Fay, Rose McDowall's Voice in everything and anything, Simon Finn, William Bazinski, OM, Joolie Wood, Thom Yorke, The Flaming Lips, Throbbing Gristle, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian, Depeche Mode, Requiem in White, Mors Syphilitica, Holy Cow, Amps for Christ, Man is the Bastard, The Strokes, Broken, Brightback Morning Light, Gary Newman, David Coulter, Psychic TV, Sharron Kraus, Crisis, and all the lovely bands and musicians in my friends list (check them out).
The Iron Petticoat, Katherine Hepburn, Time Bandits, GHOST DOG, Charlie Chaplin, Nadira, The Haunting (the original), The Holy Mountain (Jodorowsky), Stalker (Tarkovsky), Monsieur Verdoux (Chaplin &Wells), Faust (Svankmejer), Chris Marker, The Brothers Quay, Guy Madden, Luis Bunuel, Blessed Elysium, Wild Strawberries & other by Igmar Bergman, Nights of Caberia (anything with Juilietta Messina) & other Fellini, 6 Degrees of Seperation, Series 5:The Contenders, The Coen Brothers, Withnail and I, Ravenous, Persona, Richard Attenborough, Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman (esp. The Tempest), Ken Russel, Peter Greenaway, Louise Brooks, Kate Bush, 80's videos with people running through woods in fancy clothes, Albino Fawn Productions, 'Blood, Tea & Roses', M. Henry Jones (check out the filmmakers in my friends list and in my favourite videos section)
Robot Chicken, Creature Comforts, Thunderbirds, 3 Non-blondes, Daily Show, Simpsons, The Venture Bros, Graham Norton, Democracy Now!, Gods In the Sky, Nathan Barley, The Day Today, Brass Eye, The Prisoner, The Naked Civil Servant, Six Feet Under, X-files, POX, Saphire and Steel, Absolutely Fabulous, The Royale Family, Ali G, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report (check out my favourite videos)
The Qur'an, Nietzsche, Deleuze, Blake, Walter Benjamin, Derrida, Judith Butler, Spivak, Angela Carter, E. A. Poe, Kafka, Julian of Norwich, Borges, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Jeanette Winterson, Maldoror, Baudelaire, Genet, Beckett, Jamaica Kinaid, Edward Gorey, Ghost Stories, Murder Mysteries, Fairy Tales, Agatha Christie, Fritz Leiber, Goethe, Bataille, Ursula LeGuin, Antonio Gramsci, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Antoinin Artaud, George Orwell, George Macdonald, C.S. Lewis, Emily Dickinson, Sterne, Shelley, Byron, Swift, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Pynchon, Romy Ashby, (check out my friends for more writers, storytellers, philosophers, Muslims, Mu'min and such)
Abraham, Jesus, Muhammad, Spinoza, Harry Haywood, Jhon Balance, William Blake, Freidrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Malcolm X, Little Annie, Baby Dee, Erik Leiser, David Bunting, Andria Degens, Cosi Fanni Tutti, Lisa Hammer, Eric Hammer, Kate Bush, Violet Harlow, Bob Zimmerman, Shahnaz Rouse, Sam Nash, my friends, my cats...and above all:
The Lord of Infinite Grace: Allah: The All Beneficent; The Most Merciful; The King- The Sovereign; The Most Holy; The Peace and Blessing; The Guarantor; The Guardian- The Preserver; The Almighty- The Self Sufficient; The Powerful- The Irresistible; The Tremendous; The Creator; The Maker; The Fashioner of Forms; The Ever Forgiving; The All Compelling Subduer; The Bestower; The Ever Providing; The Opener- The Victory Giver; The All Knowing- The Omniscient; The Restrainer- The Straightener; The Expander, The Munificent; The Abaser; The Exalter; The Giver of Honour; The Giver of Dishonour; The All Hearing; The All Seeing; The Judge- The Arbitrator; The Utterly Just; The Subtly Kind; The All Aware; The Forbearing- The Indulgent; The Magnificent, The Infinite; The All Forgiving; The Grateful; The Sublimely Exalted; The Great; The Preserver; The Nourisher; The Reckoner; The Majestic; The Bountiful- The Generous; The Watchful; The Responsive- The Answerer; The Vast- The All Encompassing; The Wise; The Loving- The Kind One; The All Glorious; The Raiser of The Dead; The Witness; The Truth- The Real; The Trustee- The Dependable; The Strong; The Firm- The Steadfast; The Protecting Friend, Patron and Helper; The All Praiseworthy; The Accounter- The Numberer of All; The Producer, Originator, and Initiator of All; The Reinstater Who Brings Back All; The Giver of Life; The Bringer of Death- The Destroyer; The Ever Living; The Self Subsisting Sustainer of All; The Perceiver- The Finder- The Unfailing; The Illustrious- The Magnificent; The One- the All Inclusive- The Indivisible; The Self Sufficient- The Impregnable- The Eternally Besought of All- The Everlasting; The All Able; The All Determiner- The Dominant; The Expediter- He Who Brings Forward; The Delayer- He Who Puts Far Away; The First; The Last; The Manifest- The All Victorious; The Hidden- The All Encompassing; The Patron; The Self Exalted; The Most Kind and Righteous; The Ever Returning- Ever Relenting; The Avenger; The Pardoner, The Effacer of Sins; The Compassionate- The All Pitying; The Owner of All Sovereignty; The Lord of Majesty and Generosity; The Equitable- The Requiter; The Gatherer- The Unifier; The All Rich- The Independent; The Enricher- The Emancipator; The Withholder- The Shielder- the Defender; The Distressor- The Harmer; The Propitious- The Benefactor; The Light; The Guide; The Incomparable- The Originator; The Ever Enduring and Immutable; The Heir- The Inheritor of All; The Guide- Infallible Teacher and Knower; The Patient- The Timeless
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