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Hmmm....Let's see....hearing...Listening to lately Talking Heads, Stereolab, John Zorn's filmworks, Zorn's Masada, Beethoven, XTC (The song's "Scarecrow People" and "Dear God" over and over again) Esquivel (my namesake,) old house music tracks, some live Radiohead (especially "Karma Police" and "Lucky" live at the Beacon Theater this week, over and over again,) Tool, some Ivo Papasov (when I'm feeling really really funky,) The Police (when they're telling me my miranda rights,) Joni Mitchell (especially Hejira,) and random mixes of ecclectic delights. Music that makes it back into the mix includes various Mike Patton projects, Tori Amos, Fugazi, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, NIN, Roxy Music, Ween, Jill Scott, Tweet, Erykah Badu, Keith Jarett, Brad Meldau, Autechre, Carmen McCrae, D'Angelo, David Bowie, Mos Def, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello, Chopin, Laurie Anderson, Little Trophy, Roy Ayers, Andrew Bird, Mozart, Astor Piazolla, Cocteau Twins, Rage Against the Machine, Thingy, some old school jams. The other day I heard Expose on the radio (pronounced, Expose-A) and couldn't get the smile of nostalgia off my withering face.The Pleasure Principle - Janet Jackson
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Songs In The Key Of Life (Childhood-Adulthood)
Song You Believe Your Parents Conceived You To: Poetry Man by Phoebe Snow
Song That Best Makes The Soundtrack of Your Childhood Neighborhood Theme: The Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione
Theme Song To Your Closest Sibling: The Greatest Love of All by Whitney Houston
The First Album You Ever Purchased: Thriller by Michael Jackson
The First Single You Ever Purchased: Looking For A New Love by Jodi Watley
Album Cover That Scared You In Your Childhood: Talking Heads "Remain In Light"
Song That Scared You In Your Childhood: Showbiz Kids by Steely Dan
The TV Theme of Your Childhood: Family Ties theme
Favorite Song From Sesame Street: Electricity E-lectricity...
Favorite Song From Mister Rodgers Neighborhood: I hated that fucking show.
Favorite Song From The Electric Company: Not familiar.
What Were You Banned From Listening To In Your Childhood: Nothing really....Mom was cool. She did however used to groan when I would play Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen over and over again.
Rock Song That Rocked Ghetto/Ghetto Song That Rocked The Suburbs (as a kid): Cult of Personality by Living Color
Song You First Slow Dragged To: ?
First Cassette You Got For Your First Walkman: Control by Janet Jackson
Best Cosby Show Theme: Bobby Mcferrin
Favorite Soundtrack Of Youth: West Side Story
Song That Played When You Got In Trouble And Grounded At Home: Shiver and Shake by The Cure
Song That Played When You Thought You Was About To Get Some: Stay by Jodeci
Song That Played When You Got Some: If I Ever Fall In Love by Shai
The Theme To Your First Break Up In High School: Silent All These Years by Tori Amos
The First Compact Disc You Ever Brought (not Album/Cassette): Ella fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong and Aretha Sings The Blues
Album That You Stole From A Friend: Southern Hummingbird, Tweet...by accident. sorry girl!
Your Favorite Album You Think Your Friend Stole: Try an entire crate of my favorite jazz and misc albums that included some Beatles. That sucked.
If Ever In Car Accident....What Song Was Playing?: Anything by Meshuggah
5 Songs You'd Put On A Mixtape For A Potential Love One: The Book I Read by Talking Heads, The Nearness of You by Ella Fitzgerald, Lover Man by Sarah Vaughn, Long Walk by Jill Scott, A Case of You by Joni Mitchell
Song To Best Describe Your Best Relationship: You and I by Stevie Wonder
Song To Best Describe Your Worst Breakup: Somebody That I Used To Know by Elliot Smith or Baby Bitch by Ween. Both good depressing little nuggets.
First Concert You Ever Went To: Silk and H-Town
Magical Concert You Ever Went To: Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, Masada.
Worst Concert You Ever Went To: Silk and H-Town
Coolest Celeb Ever Met: Tom Waits, Mike Patton, or Brian Blade for different reasons.
Assholish Celeb You Ever Met: Delroy Lindo
Godlike Celeb You Ever Met: Bobby McFerrin
The US Weekly "Oh They Just Like Me!" Celeb You Ever Met: ?
Song So Hype You'd Run Your Moms Over With A Trash Truck Going 100 mph: Hyper Ballad by Bjork
Song That Has The Ability To Make You Cry: Down To You by Joni Mitchell or Fond Farewell to Friends by Elliot Smith
The One Song That Has The Ability To Make You A Kid Again: Love Will Save The Day by Whitney Houston
Song You Are Ashamed To Admit You Love: Love Will Save The Day by Whitney Houston
Song/Album That You Have To Gunpoint Others To: ?
If You Were To Marry Now What Song Would Be Your Wedding Song?: As by Stevie Wonder
What Song Best Describes Your Children/Future Children?: The sounds of baby birds and rustling trees
Who Killed Music?: The greedy
Who Keeps Music Alive For You?: Street prophets, dj's, the revolutionists, the ones that know.
Song Playing Right Now: Stressed Out by Tribe Called Quest
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Wings of Desire is probably my all-time favorite movie. Other's include Baraka, Harold and Maude, Amelie, It Happened One Night, It's A Wonderful Life, Edward Scissorhands, Donnie Darko, Time Bandits, Brazil, The Time Machine, Buffalo 66, Magnolia, Young Frankenstein, Ghost World, Flirting With Disaster, Dead Alive, Six Degrees of Separation, Torch Song Trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, Music documentaries such as, Dig, Fugazi's Instrument, and Scratch, Dancer In The Dark, Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Splash, Bukowski: Born Into This, Cat On a Hot Tin roof, Shakespeare In love, Being John Malkovich, and Count Jack-u-la Part 6. There has been an epidemic of bad movies that have come out recently which is a huge disappointment.
Six Feet Under, Iconoclasts, No Reservations with Anthony Bordain, Project Runway, classic Twilight Zone, Top Chef, and Dog Whisperer. Guilty pleasure~ So You Think You Can Dance. Everything else is agony to watch but I endlessly surf the channels regardless.
I enjoy fantasy, dark humor, cookbooks, and short stories for my short attention span. The hit list includes, "The Prophet" by Khalil Gibran, "The Fermatta," by Nicholson Baker, "The Phantom Tollbooth," by Norton Jester, "The Bone-Setter's Daughter," by Amy Tan. I enjoy re-reading Anais Nin short erotica stories every now and then. Just finished Vonnetgut's "Gallapagos," "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt, and "Ghostwritten" by David Mitchell which were all amazing. Just finished reading "Number 9 Dream" by David Mitchell. He's turned out to be an amazing author who has now become a favorite. I've also been reading some more of Caroline Myss' books who impressed me greatly with her first book, "Anatomy of the Spirit." I am hoping to find some literature that moves me spiritually like Gibran's "The Prophet" did when I first read it. Any suggestions would be great.
Srinivasan Natarajan. period