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Took

Ain't no place like home

About Me

I grew up, studied, graduated, started my first band, played music in national venues, and started my professional life in Egypt, mainly Cairo. Moved to the states in June 2005, settled in Jersey, found a job in August, started in September and now looking to expand my social circle and know more people in different walks of life that have the same goal of opening their minds and expanding their horizons.

In December 2005 I joined what I think is quite an interesting band. We're called Amber Blues. Check out www.amberblues.com . Or on myspace here at AmberBluesSpace . The music's really great, the vibe is awesome and the band with the fans and team are all just awesome people. See us live if we're near you

My Interests

Music above all which includes writing and composing and playing live... travel (I'd definitely like to see as many countries as possible), Hiking (only did that twice though), beaching, movies, festivals, exhibitions, art shows, animation, learning other people's cultures, would like to learn more languages, mathematics, history but I don't know much, cooking, literature, never was much of a sports guy but I become a big fan when the football world cup (they call it soccer in the states) comes up, and I do like basketball and ping pong, mixing juices and making new ones that taste weird but I like them...other things might be in store once I find them.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people with varying interests, people willing to learn and understand things more and inspire me to open my mind and see new things ....musicians, artists, writers, actors, intellectuals, mathematicians, and just about anyone with an spongy mind ..... and although I know enough engineers but they're still an interesting species!

Music:

The Beatles, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Fiona Apple, Billy Joel, Mozart, Deep Purple, Supertramp, Fairouz, Sting, Fathy Salama, Norah Jones, Rainbow, Pink Floyd, The Police, Guns 'n Roses, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Blackmore's Night, Rimski Korsakov, Duran Duran, Amalia, Simon and Garfunkel, Alice in chains, Nirvana, Richard Marx, Peter Tschaikovski, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, A-ha, Elliot Smith, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake, Natalie Imbruglia, Chick Corea, Eric Satie, Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, Jimi Hendrix, Edward Grieg, Bryan Adams, Sayed Darwish, Alan Parson's project, Pearl Jam, Camel, The Eagles, Alanis Morissette, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath..........well there's a lot more of every type of music there is. I don't think I can populate it all. I probably forgot to mention Sade for example

Movies:

Vanilla Sky, Forrest Gump, Memento, Goodbye Lenin, Kill Bill, Psycho, The Shawshank Redemption, Pulp Fiction, Rear Window, The immortal beloved, Finding Nemo, Toy story, Almost famous, The hours, Twelve Monkeys, Amadeus, The ring, Lord of the rings, The money pit, Back to the future, Modern times, The science of sleep.

Television:

Six feet under, that 70s show, Friends, Seinfeld, Family Guy, South Park, Curb your enthisiasm, VH-1 Behind the music, Cheers....

My Blog

The lights have gone to bed

It's not easy not being beside the family in a time of loss. I lost my second uncle in one year on Sunday. Two great men I really loved and respected, and everyone loved and respected them. I wasn't b...
Posted by Took on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:10:00 PST