Art, ALL forms of arts, reading, especially comic books and popular science-mainly astronomy-watch this video, it speaks of infinite beauty in a quite literal way...)
traveling and -ouch! - politics... The sheer word hurts nowadays but we can't give up and even stop talking. Pubs are also very very interesting. And I love animals!
adopt your own virtual pet!
I'd like to meet:
All people that I am inviting on Myspace at the pub sooner or later to prove this theory!
Yoga in India
Yoga in the west
Music:
Listing all authors I like could take hours to a slow typist like myself.
Generally I like MUSIC and I can listen to pretty much anything except country and folk, which I can only take in very little doses or else my hair becomes even more frizzy. Also I don't like most love songs lyrics, and things like 'baby I love you so much' give me cramps in the neck. My first reaction to these words is normally 'Stop screaming it and prove it, you idiot!'
I love rock, hard rock, punk rock but I don't often listen to them these days.
Music I am listening to now are mostly compilations coming from the most various countries, things like Buddah Bar by french DJ Claude Challe (mostly european and asian) and Rahil by egyptian DJ Amr Ismail (mostly middle eastern and african). The music in these compilations comes from all over the world and the brilliancy of them is that they have brought together people from all over the world and they offer good chat up lines in all languages! Also, there seem to be rythms and tunes for all moods, so I don't get bored very easily.
Often I listen to music without words, or in languages I don't understand, so that the words become like sound.
I also like some classical music.
Movies:
Pedro Almodovar, Peter Jackson, Sergio Leone and Jeunet and Caro are my absolute favourite. I also like some Stanley Kubrik, Federico Fellini, Wim Wenders and Ridley Scott. Almodovar is probably my number one because he's absolutely amazing in making people cry and laugh in such brief a time, and the themes he chooses are at the very the least controversial, but he can turn even the most rigid taboos and heavy subjects into sheer entertainment, often surreal comedy. Little by little I am planning to buy DVDs of all his films. I already have most films by Jeunet and Caro. They have a very sensual approach to cinema, and they rely strongly on acustic and visual elements to tell their stories. I love their colors!
Television:
I only watch documentaries and informational stuff on tv, or else I watch movies. I am not as constant as to be able and follow series, so I start watching something, I miss episodes and then I lose the plot. I haven't missed any episodes of LOST, though, that's cause I had them recorded and I like that show a lot. I enjoyed the fragments of Sopranos and Six Feet Under that I have seen more than others. I prefer reading to watching the telly, though. And going to the pub.
Books:
I read books of popular science, japanese contemporary writers such as Haruki Murakami (his Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World is really mindwarping, original, fresh and surprising) and occasionally books written by journalists who report from war zones (for instance John Simpson's). Wars repel and attract me at the same time. I hate all that wars represent, but, on a more abstract level, strategies and behind the scenes political intrigues and plots are really addictive. I also love all books I can find that are written for children. Ok, I am retarded, but I can't go to bed without my dose of Harry Potter or Artemis Fowl or the demon Bartimaeus... And comic books!
Heroes:
Definitely Ghandi and Mary Teresa of Calcutta. And all those unknown people who have the balls to dedicate their lives to help those in need and fight for the respect of human rights and justice.
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