Music, anthropology, philosophy, south asia, middle east, Indonesia, traveling, npr, coffee, drums, bad music, good music, warm weather, npr, coffee.
Your band, my band, your friend's band, cool Brooklyn bands, lame eighties bands, swingin' jazz bands, experimental crap bands, Sri Lankan hotel sombrero bands, South Asian drumming gurus, the usual.
City of Lost Children, La Guerre d'Algerie, David Lynch, Zoolander, bad teen movies, bad action movies, artsy-fartsy movies, my friend Dave's movies.
Conan, Dave Chappelle, book tv, American Idol, if House were on, I wouldn't turn him off, I suppose.
anthropology, musicology, South Asian studies, philosophy, history.
The Mexican Revolution was brought on by, among other factors, tremendous disagreement among the Mexican people over the dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz , who, all told, stayed in office for thirty one years. During that span, power was concentrated in the hands of a select few; the people had no power to express their opinions or select their public officials. Wealth was likewise concentrated in the hands of the few, and injustice was everywhere, in the cities and the countryside alike.