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Mani

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About Me

A little ditty about Mani...I was born in Tehran, Iran and moved to the US when I was 5 yrs old to escape the revolution. I've lived in Colorado most of my life and decided to move out to Cali to pursue my love of film and the entertainment industry. Like everyone else out here in L.A., I want to be a movie director but unlike everyone else I want to create films that are more female focused and show more positive depictions of middle-easterners. My other passion is to direct music videos.....Anton Corbijn is my god...directed some of the best U2 & Depeche Mode videos ever! P.S. My mantra is C3 (C Cubed)...it stands for Concerts, Comedy and Cinema...my three passions in life!

The love of my life...Angelina Jolie!
My friend Andrew and I saw MUSE in Vegas in 2006...best rock show EVER!!! Here's some footage of the concert taken with my Canon digital camera creatively edited together by Andrew to one of my favorite songs off the new album..."KNIGHTS OF CYDONIA"!Footage I took of a band I discovered last year called Still Remains. Here's the band performing their hit single "Stay Captive" at El Rey Theatre in L.A.


My Interests





Blowing BIG blacks guys

I'd like to meet:

"Rock the Cradle" was the latest show I worked on. Great crew and talent! Can't wait for season 2!!! www.myspace.com/rockthecradlemtv

Fabio teaches Best Buy associates how to "Love your PC"...I'm in the front row on the right :)

I worked on a series called "Yahoo Answers on the Street" and actually appear in a segment on organic foods. It's towards the very end, I play a waitress called Libby :) LOL!

Check out my friend Andrew's alter ego as "Shorty Longback" (a.k.a. Sho Lo)... Enjoy!

Music:

MUSIC IS MY LIFE!!!
You are a Rocker Girl!
If you don't have musical talent, you've got a talent for picking out great CD's.
Music rules your life - and you've got the best MP3 collection of anyone you know.
Many guys find you intimidating, but a select few think you're the catch of a lifetime.

U2, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, Duran Duran, Muse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Hot Hot Heat, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Interpol, The Walkmen, 311, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Doors, Queen, George Michael, Madonna, Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson, Fischerspooner, Tears for Fears, INXS, Elvis Presley, Aha, ABBA, Jem, Franz Ferdinand, The Faint, The Killers, Keane, Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco, Snow Patrol, Aaliyah, John Mayer, The Beatles, Sting, Sarah McLachlan, Le Tigre, Enya, Enigma, Sade, Postal Service, Radiohead, Joss Stone, Erasure, Bon Jovi, Beck, Big Dume, Christina Aguilera, Etta James, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Tori Amos, Bloc Party, Tarkan, Cheb Mami, Amr Diab, Googoosh, Mansour, Black Cats, Diana Haddad, Robbie Williams, New Order, The Cure, Ray Charles, Frou Frou, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Lauryn Hill, Nouvelle Vague, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Sneaker Pimps, ATB, DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, Prince, Dirty Vega, The Gorillaz, Aerosmith, Zero 7, Alicia Keys, No Doubt, BT, Justin Timberlake, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Harry Connick Jr., Frank Sinatra, all Disney songs, Maroon 5, Blondie, Beastie Boys, Dido, Black Eyed Peas, Foreigner, Journey, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Moby, Kylie Minogue, Run DMC, Boy George, Cindi Lauper, The Fugees, Lenny Kravitz, Avril Lavigne, Daft Punk, Blur, Tito Puente, TLC, Salt N' Pepa, The Shins, Tiziano Ferro, Billy Idol, Delerium, Prodigy, Shakira, Longwave, Annie Lennox, Scissor Sisters, The Clash, The Bangles, Kings of Leon, The Ramones, Snoop Dogg, Oasis, The Cars, Boy George, Babyface, Jon B, Boyz II Men, any & all 80's, Old Skool Hip Hop, Sound of Music & West Side Story Soundtrack, Maxwell, Eryka Badu, Pet Shot Boys, Stone Temple Pilots, Audioslave, The Cranberries, Smashing Pumkins, Stone Roses, Starsailor, Republica, Garbage, Dave Matthews Band, Gipsy Kings, Rusted Root, Moving Units, IMA Robot, Fiona Apple, Chantelle Tibbs, Intervox, Sierra Swan, The Editors, Dangerous Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Secret Machines, Corinne Bailey Rae, Mutemath, Orson, The Changes, The Sounds, Angels & Airwaves, Deftones, Bright Eyes, Sia, Robin Thicke, The Klaxons, Panic! At The Disco, Still Remains, Paramore, Nigel Lewis, Israel Houghton, Angie Stone, Hypernova, Shiny Toy Guns, Silversun Pickups, Colbie Caillat, Vast, Shorty Longback, Anti-Flag, Lara Johnston, Crosby Loggins & The Light, Baptized by FIre...more music to come, more music to discover!

Movies:

Too many to list but one of my all time favs is Dead Poet's Society...CARPE DIEM!

Television:

Lost, The Office, Sex and the City, Queer as Folk, Desperate Housewives, Chuck, The L Word, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Wonder Showzen, Heroes, Ugly Betty, Will & Grace, Pushing Daisies, Seinfeld, Friends, Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Scrubs, Mad TV, SNL, anything on Comedy Central but especially Friday Night Stand Up and Premium Blend...I ABSOLUTELY love Comedy!

Books:

The Alchemist and any book by Ann Rule (not to be mistaken for Ann Rice).

Heroes:

My mom and sister!

My Blog

My Tattoo

So everyone keeps asking me what my tattoo means and instead of trying to explain it 100,000 times I thought I'd just blog the meaning....here you go!MANI (this is tattooed in the middle of the lotus ...
Posted by Mani on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:26:00 PST