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Raj

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Films, Music and... Where's my Beer?

My Interests

Meeting New People, Watching/Making Films, Playing My Guitar, Art, DJing, Listening to new music and Partying.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people, people who've travelled.. Cool people who like to party.. People who are enthusiastic about films, the same way I am....Check out these trailers for my 2 new Films I Directed and Premiered in Hollywood, May 24th '07. 'Le Boxeur' and 'Konflooent' ........................Playing at Cannes 2008!

Music:

Silversun Pickups, Queens of the Stoneage, Bloc Party, Alkaline Trio, Clor, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Subways, Zillionaire, The Killers, The Bees, Joe Purdy, Foo Fighters, Incubus(New and old stuff), Doves, Death from above1979, Ben Folds, Iron and Wine, Bright Eyes, A Tribe Called Quest, The Beasties, Pilot to Gunner, Elbow, Engineers, Orbital, Audio Bullies, Louis XIV, Outsidaz, Hundred Reasons, Surfjan Stevens, Jeff Buckley, Lemonheads, Evan Dando(solo stuff), Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Doors, Ocean Colour Scene, Longwave, The Deltarays, Soulfly, Chimaira, Coal Chamber, Spineshank, Squarepusher, Static X, Stevie Wonder, Stone Sour, System of a Down, Trivium, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, The Kooks, Tom Vek, Eagels of Death Metal, Machine Head, Marilyn Manson, Metallica, James Brown, Jamiroquai, The Kinks, The Shins, Frou Frou, Jimmy Eat World, M.O.P, Mudvayne, One Minute Silence, Presidents Of The United States Of America, Open Hand, Radiohead, Spin Doctors, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cribs, Franz Ferdinand, The Prodigy, Rage Against the Machine, Boards of Canada, Air, Alien Ant Farm, Rammstein, Deftones, Dry Kill Logic, Faith No More, Faithless, Fear Factory, Groove Armada, Hatebreed, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Death Cab For Cutie, Magic Numbers, Phantom Planet, Billy Talent, Rufus Wainwright, Jimi Hendrix, Beck, The Arcade Fire, The Futureheads, Blur, Fatboy Slim, NIN, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Jack Johnson, Led Zeppelin, The Cure, (This could go on for a while) Dashboard Confessional, Autolux, Hot Hot Heat, Weezer, Nine Black Alps, Postal Service, coming soon Jum Robin, All kinds of Drum and Bass (anything with a DIRRTY Bassline...I'l love!), abit of Funky House and Breakbeats, Jay-Z, Ambulance Ltd, Maximo Park, The Beatles, Most Jazz and abit of Classical.... Basically I can listen to anything but I cant stand Pop and Country Western.

Movies:

Even more than the music section......A Scanner Darkly, Pan's Labrynth, Idiocracy, Match Point, The Fountain, The Lives Of Others, ExistenZ, Science Of Sleep, The Pursuit of Happyness, Fargo, Little Miss Sunshine, Buffalo 66, Anchorman, The Departed Goodnight and Good Luck, King Kong (New and Old), Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, RAW by Eddie Murphy, Sideways, Crash, Donnie Darko, American Splendor, Coffee and Cigarrettes, any films buy Stanley Kubrick especially Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Clockwork Orange, Killers Kiss, and Eyes Wide Shut, 21 Grams, Dumb and Dumber, Memento, I love all Woody Allen films, Forrest Gump, DIG!, The Lord of the Ring Trilogy, Matrix 1, Versus, Amelie, Irriversible, Boiler Room, Flatliners, The Secretary, Bourne Identity, Almost Famous, Scent of a Woman, Donnie Brasco, The Talented Mr Ripley, Leon, Ice Age, The Graduate, When Harry Met Sally (Chick flick i know but its clever) Trainspotting, All films by Kevin Smith especially Dogma, Clerks, Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, All of the Tarrantino Movies especially From Dusk from Dawn, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bills, The Lost Boys, Alien, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, This is Spinal Tap, Audition, Old Boy, The Notebook, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, City of God, Napoleon Dynamite, Requiem For A Dream, The Salton Sea, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, The Machinist, Connfessions Of A Dangerous Mind, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Stand By Me, Oceans 11, Casino, I'm always watching films instead of TV so I could go on forever!

Television:

I dont really watch much TV but when i do its normally Scrubs, Arrested Development, Heroes!! Teachers was great, Family Guy, American Dad, Occasionally Greys Anatomy, MTV, MTV2, Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia.. Just started watching Weeds on Sky One.

Books:

Anything by Terry Pratchett. Ben Elton.. Popcorn, High Society. Gangster, Street Boys and Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra. The Lord of the Rings(Originals) Bill Hicks and Dave Grohl Auto-bio. Bringing Down the House and Ugly Americans by Ben Mezrich PaperBack Raita by Will Rhode(which Dave, you will get back next time I'm in London!) Michael J. Fox Auto-bio. Alfred Hitchcock Auto-bio. and I'm constantly reading new scripts..helping out writers, latest one I'm reading is Fare's Fair by Stephen Turner..