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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Hot fire dancers on the beach in Thailand. Persians (or Turks) with dreadlocks. Mongolian Contortionists. Someone who can do the shakira chest thrust. Any Ethiopian. Sally Wu (I'll f you up, ho) MC's, DJ's, African Drum Masters, ect. M.I.A. or Idan Raichel or Azam Ali ...I sometimes make acceptions.

Music:

Niyaz(!!!!), Idan Raichel Project, Balkan Beat Box, Hiam, Sheva, Azam Ali, M.I.A., DJ Mitsu, Gaya, Hadag Nahash, Sagol 59, DJ Caress, Panjabi MC, DJ Cheb-I-Sabbah, Sevara Nazarkhan, Azam Ali, Amy Winehouse, Jurassic 5, Orishas, Tamam, Postal Service & Death Cab, Kanye West, MC Solaar, Mint Royale, Amr Diab, Natacha Atlas, Scissor Sisters, The Gorillaz, Radiohead, Divahn, Alanis Morissette, Missy Elliot, The Roots, Achinoam Nini, Blackalicious, Souad Massi, Shakira, Atash, Modest Mouse, Chemical Brothers, Eshebo, Dragostae Din Tae!!, Tracy Chapman, Lauren Hill, Fugees, Bjork, Sertab Erener, Sultana, Axiom of Choice, Visionaries, Wyclef, anything with flavor---dont dull me.

Movies:

Baraka, Born into Brothels, Any Cirque du Soleil, Bride and Prejudice, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Margaret Cho, Monsoon Wedding, House of Sand and Fog, The Shipping News, Lost in Translation, The Soul Plane (classy, innit?), The Secret Ballot, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Miss Congeniality 2-that shit helped me survive Cambodia!

Television:

I dont play that game. Unless I'm on the Austin-New York Jet Blue flight. Then its nonstop...I get off the plane feeling soooo....

Books:

The Kite Runner (!!!!!), Reading Lolita in Tehran, Shalimar the Clown, Life of Pi, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them, I'm OK-Your a Pain in the Neck, Swallows of Kabul, Refugees in Our Own Land, The Language Instinct, The Journey is the Destination, That Steve McCurry Portaits book with the famous "Afghan Girl" photo, The Shipping News, Booksellers of Kabul- Anything by Khaled Hosseini or Salman Rushdie

Heroes:

Ha Saba Sheli, Yitzhak Rabin, Zakir Hussain, Azam Ali, Ulziibayar Chimed/Olga Pikhienko,

My Blog

Overland in Awe!

Though Vietnam is not our final destination, it marks the accomplishment of travelling thousands of kilometers across the Eurasian Continent, and thousands of Kilometers southbound through Asia. And,...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 08:54:00 PST

Umm...where is Vietnam??

Twelve days in China have flown by faster than you can say "Sleeper bus to Vietnam", as Magera and I will be in few hours. We arrived in Beijing after yet another epic schlepp from Mongolia, and our a...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:04:00 PST

Yaks n' Yurts n' Miss mongolia

It seems like I've been in constant motion since I last wrote. We bumped our way out of Ulan Bator and into the Mongolian countryside. It seems that anything a vehicle of any kind has once tried to tr...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:14:00 PST

Trans Party

So it seems now that the trip has finally begun. Until now, its been waiting. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Waiting to say the excruciating goodbyes in Austin, waiting to go to New York. Waiting to ...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:09:00 PST

leaving on a jet plane...kinda; mockba!

Is it really this time again? Time update all of you, the various people who I have been lucky enough to have found in my life over the past two decades. Though you come from all over the wo...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:02:00 PST

6 train therapy

Over the years, my fascination with and draw towards the 6 train has kept me attentive and stimulated for the short ten minutes it takes to ride from say, 68th and Lexington to Union Square. I'm drawn...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:07:00 PST

Indonesian Invasion

So about a month ago we got in a huge shipment of furniture at the store I work for. The company makes expensive french furniture made in Indonesia. Ethically vapid if you ask me, but thats not what t...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:54:00 PST

Thailand Kap, Wildlife in bungalows Kaaaaaaaap, Sanctuary...Aaaaaaah.

I guess I left things up in the air when I last wrote, four months ago, when I bid my farewells to India, and looked onward to Thailand. Some people have wondered if I felt the urge (and transcended a...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

Kol HaShanti

I've been agonizing over this reflective email for the past two weeks. Not just the reflective email, but my personal reflections as well. How have I changed? Have I changed? Is it cliche to think I c...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:40:00 PST

Monkey Business

Pushkar is a beautiful little town at the edge of the desert in Rajastan. Its a holy city, filled with a delightful mix of Sadhus, Hindu Spiritualists, and Backpacking hippies. The little lake is a pe...
Posted by Bin Yahmeen on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:39:00 PST