Being a gym rat. Investigating my German roots. Wallowing in the sunshine. Enjoying a more sober lifestyle. Playing house music. Eastern & Western Philosophy. Zen & Tibetan Buddhism. Male energy. Tantra. Reading, a lot. Diddling with Computers. MAC - programming and design. Graphic & Web Design. Cooking. Eating good food. K.G.B. Drinking from a martini glass in the middle of the woods. Life and it's existential meaning. Traveling. Exploring. Politics. Throwing fabulous lil' parties. Random adventures. Playing with conspiracy theories. Pretending I'm rich. Dancing at exotic locales. Thinking. Loving. Figuring out the world's problems by starting with my own.
The Dali Lama. Interesting people. My soul mate; or in the meantime any nice, good looking guy, who likes to go out for nice dinners.
Anything except for noise. influences include mom's Beatles records, Kiss, cheesy 80's hair metal bands with Motley Crue being a favorite, early hip-hop-electro, Kraftwerk, Metallica, Ice-T, Fleetwood Mac, Heart, Pat Benatar, Steve Miller Band, 80's new wave, Classic Chicago house music, Acid house, electro, techno, and Disco.
my DJ mixes (mp3 stream/popup new window)
Live at BUMP (Boston) 4/23/06
House Mix 9 (demo)
Live on WMPG, May 2005
House Mix 8 (demo)
Nu Jazz Style (demo)
you can find more at... www.popgirl23.com
newer discoveries I'm digging...
The Metric (post-punk retro 80's sounding rock)
The Darkness (retro hair metal!)
Susan Tedeschi (soulful blues)
Venetian Snares (eclectic electronic)
Star Wars, Napoleon Dynamite, Kundun, The Last Emperor, all three Bourne movies, anything by John Waters, Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events, the X-Men trilogy, A Scanner Darkly, V for Vendetta, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Meastro.
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TRAILER PARK BOYS
Recent books:
THE KORAN - Pretty self-explanatory. If you wanna understand Islam, might as well start at the source. What I noticed right off, is that especially considering the context of time and place, The Koran is very progressive in it's message. As were all important works of scripture. It's also important to understand what's actually spoken in the Koran vs. the picture being painted by all sides in today's news headlines.
HIDDEN IRAN - PARADOX AND POWER IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC - Insight into the complexities of modern day Iran, including it's internal power struggles and it's relations with the "outside" world.
PALESTINE, A PERSONAL HISTORY - A personal history of Palestine as seen through the author's Palestinian family who has lived and been documented in the region for over 400 years. A 180 degree view of the region's history through Ottoman, British, and Isreali rule.
BEFORE THE DAWN (Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors) - New York Times Science reporter's narrative bringing new genetic discoveries together with archeological and anthropological discoveries to explain the genetic roots of Human nature... religion, warfare, and trade; and how the human line slowly evolved from African apes to develop modern civilization and the novel faculty of language.
THE HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD - The historical roots and source material of the Book of Revelation, and how it's shaped western civilization. Very interesting read.
FULL MOON RISING - fiction. Total fun schlock! :) sexy vampires and werewolves with secret government agencies. Doesn't get any better then this. LOL
CITY DHARMA - practical advice and dharma lessons for those living in any urban (or even suburban) environment. Traffic, cars, crowds, social life, asshole boses etc.
JOURNEY OF THE JIHADIST - inside Muslim militancy. A history. Defines differences between muslim, islamist, militant, and jihadist.
BLACK BODIES AND QUANTUM CATS - History of the field of physics.
SEX ON THE BRAIN - how neurochemicals create the mood, and how certain afflictions can have affect.
Big Coal (journalistic reasearch)
THE BIRTH OF SATAN (religous history)
OPUS DEI (research)
STANDING ALONE IN MECCA
DAYS OF WAR/NIGHTS OF LOVE (CRIMETHINK FOR BEGINNERS)
AMERICAN HOSTAGE (MEMOIR)
THE SACRED BALANCE
THE POLITICS OF ECSTACY
ZEN & THE BRAIN
The Buddha. Boddhisattvas & Arhats. My friends. Normal everyday people who know to "step up" when it's time.
Marian Fisher (RIP) - 13 year-old Amish schoolgirl who volunteered to be shot first so the younger girls could have more time. Her sister Barbie, 11, asked to be "shot second". Barbie survived the shooting.
Anousheh Ansari - First Iranian-American into space and a "space tourist". Inspired muslim girls all over the world to reach for the stars. Her company also sponsored the Ansari X-prize. The competition a few years ago for the first company to build and test a reusable passenger rocket that was subsequently bought by "Virgin Galactic"
Nancy Pelosi - 1st female Speaker Of The House, California Congresswoman, and grandmother. Currently "sticking it to the man"
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Former First Lady, New York State Senator, possibly running for the 2008 presidency.
Danica Patrick - Professional Formula racecar driver, and first serious female competitor in the Indy 500.
Christa McAuliffe (RIP) - First "teacher in Space". Died aboard the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
Katie Hnida - First woman to appear in an NCAA Div. I-A football game on Dec. 25, 2002 as a placekicker. She also became the first woman to score in a D-I game against Texas State on Aug. 30, 2003.
Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester - the first woman soldier since World War II and first woman in combat to receive the Silver Star (along with two other members of her unit, Staff Sgt. Timothy Nein and Spc. Jason Mike), for their actions during an enemy ambush on their convoy. Sgt. Hester led her team through the "kill zone" where she assaulted a trench line with grenades and M203 grenade-launcher rounds. When the fight was over, 27 insurgents were dead, six were wounded, and one was captured. (Now while I don't condone war, I chose her as an example of the fact that women can be strong warriors. We are born into what we are born into after all as is explained in the Bhagavad-Gita.)
Mother Theresa - (born Agnes Gonk Bojaxhiu) in Uskub, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, in the Republic of Macedonia), at 18 she left home to join the Sisters of Loretto. In 1962, she received the Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding. In 1971, she was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and St. Gabriel award. Teresa was also awarded the Templeton Prize in 1973, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980. She was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1981. She was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States in 1996 (one of only two people to have this honor during their lifetime), and received the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.