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,