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bamba

Loving it!

About Me

I have chosen to follow my passions under the californian sun and fled PARIS some years ago...(damn! has it been that long !) I have sucessfully traded fuzzy half awake smelly metro ride with early morning surf before work...(that is when i wake up..!) thinking back... it was such a no brainer...

My Interests

Most day off i can be found at the beach enjoying myself in the waves with various single fin, logs ,twinzer,bonzer and other fun plastic machines... i'm into polaroid photography (bring back the time zero pleeeze!!) ,making mix tapes for friends and dreaming of eco architecture.I love riding my 1974 Honda CB Four 350.. Often traveling around the globe for work or fun,when i'm home i like to relax ,play music and entertain friends around a good dinner with fine wine ..other interests available upon request...just ask nicely...

I'd like to meet:

People with similar interests or not ,i like diversity , people making a difference by being real ,open minded, creative and curious , week end getaway people, dawn patrol and sunset glass off type of people... People who can read between the lines and laugh at the sometimes "meaningless"existence we are living, people who enjoy the finer and simpler things in life...people that i can learn from. Nice and kind people from around the globe .And lets be honest .. a good girl of course....But that's another story...

Music:

anything that has a good groove.... soul, jazz, funk ,latin,afro beat, reggae, cubano,brasil ,dancehall,hip hop,some classic banging rock, down tempo,house... you know eclectic good stuff... If i could really sing i'll be a mix of marvin gaye, donny hathaway some ken boothe with a hint of curtis mayfield.

Movies:

too many to single out a special one...anything kubrick, cassavettes, fellini,aldomovar, jarmush, hitchkock ,woody allen, huston,cohen brothers, truffaut, tarentino all monty pythons...early richard pryor,but here's some of my favorites classics in no particular order: mean street,the party,apocalypse now,thunderbolt and lightfoot, osterman week end,city of god , wings of desire , lolita, tommy,raging bull, rear window, blade runner , bad lieutenant , godfather ,raw , citizen kane,the game of death, a night at the opera ,betty blue, the 7 samurai, mon oncle , the graduate,bullitt,vanishing point,down by law, donnie darko,night on hearth ,fearless vampire killers, doctor strangelove,the pink panther,shallow grave,the shinning,body double,2001 a space odyssey,brazil,le doulos,duck soup,giant,blow up, the dear hunter,man bites dog,the element of crime, garden state, the duellists , tempopo,sin city, in the heat of the night,taxi driver,cruising, indie cinema ,single fin,longer,seedling,sprout, a broke down melody,morning of the earth,chasing the lotus, one california day.

Television:

i like IFC and SUNDANCE for movies, TLC, HBO and DISCOVERY for interesting documentary and random channel surfing... i love curb your enthousiasm,hells kitchen ,scrubs ,entourage, my name is earl, it's always sunny in philly,Dexter,weeds californication rules !!!

Books:

Love reading ,just got done with shantaram (1000 pages of awesomeness) and deep into the beautiful fall by alicia drake ( very interesting in depth tales of the rivalry between Karl lagerfeld and YSL...)

Heroes:

Mum of course...and anyone that follows their dreams.

My Blog

White X-mas...

Traveling with surfboards can be somewhat of a drag, the carrying sucks and lets not talk about the blind raping that airlines do by overcharging anything that doesn't look like a golf bag.Talk abou...
Posted by bamba on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:17:00 PST

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER...

Thursday afternoon, almost 3.00pm .I'm sitting in a meeting with my boss when I feel my phone vibrating... discretely check who's calling me... Sorry, but I have to take this call so I excuse myself ...
Posted by bamba on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:51:00 PST

SICILY....

Ciao bella...ciao.. see you next yearProbably the last words i said as i was leaving Marina di Ragusa , winking one last time at the "oh so hot " Lavinia our cute dark sicilian hotel receptionist ....
Posted by bamba on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:16:00 PST

THINGS HAVE BEEN SHAKY !

There are some days when you rather be in a different place, a different country , or even a different world ! Some morning when i rather be awaken by something else than the noise of my paintings...
Posted by bamba on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

TIME TRAVELER

Damn ! 9.15am...I guess I overslept and forgot to set my alarm ...shit!...shove the cats off the bed and get up in a hurry .They were showing city of god last night late and I had to peep that flick ...
Posted by bamba on Wed, 24 May 2006 12:31:00 PST

10 DAYS IN ASIA!

DAY 1 & 2 Live and direct from the sole tech office in Guangzhou south china... Muggyand warm , I forgot how it felt to go outside an expect somewhat of a coolbreeze...yeah right... Straight hell brea...
Posted by bamba on Thu, 04 May 2006 06:56:00 PST

REBEL CUISINE

Traveling is a big part of my life ,Im one of those lucky bastard that have a job that sends me to the 4 corners of the world and a passion for uncrowded perfect point waves that forces me to search ...
Posted by bamba on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:54:00 PST

today was a good day

Today is my day and I can do whatever the F..ยก! i want ! As my mum says , a little less than 40 years ago in a small clinic in the south of france i was about to show up my head already full of ...
Posted by bamba on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST