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eemz

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About Me

* I love love.I'm not cookie-cutter pretty but I'm a beautiful being, and so are you.** "Toil, toil away and set the stone that shall stand when you are gone. Ask not that another see the reason of your masonry." ** “What is uttered from the heart alone, will win the hearts of others to your own.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ** "Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama ** "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein ** “Write bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble” - Arabic proverb ** "...Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Who knows what keeps us living and struggling, while all things break about us? Who knows why the warm flesh of a child is such comfort, when one's own child is lost and cannot be recovered? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom." - Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) *

My Interests

Bobby McFerrinGeorge Michael - Spinning the WheelSabah and Rola - Yana YanaThe Brand New Heavies - Surrenderwanderlust. music! art/expression. uroborus (of losing and finding oneself). photography. film. learning. conservation. metaphysics. shamanism. drawing. design. architecture. installation/performance/body art. modern/classical styles. paint. galleries. museums. exhibitions. events. festivals. gatherings. dancing. adrenaline. language. remote beaches. sunset. islands. cities. open spaces. (creative) writing. eco-friendly fashion. pantheism. tantra. philosophy. psychology. anthropology. civilizations. literature. science. health. egypt. kenya. dogs - soft spots: pitbulls/great danes/english bulldogs. sunrise. la lune. eroticism. dreams. mystics. healing. people. nature. animals. veg*nism. sleep. BEING.

I'd like to meet:

Honesty and love incarnate, reciprocated - because we are worth it. Conscientious beings. Those who are willing to be strong, knowing that strength is many a thing - even weakness. Inspirations. Not pessimists or optimists but realists. Dreamers. Creative spirits. Visionaries. Vegetarians, too. Time tells all things. ************************************************************ *********************** "Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry 'Awake my little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its cup be dry". ** "There was a water-drop, it joined the sea, A speck of dust, it was fused with earth; what of your entering and leaving this world? A fly appeared, and disappeared " ** "Strange-is it not?-that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too." - The Rubaiyat, (Fitzgerald's translation)- Omar Khayyam ** "Don't waste time making someone your priority, when to them you're only an option. You are your priority." ** "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

Music:

everything. love all sorts of house. tribal. electronica. funk. fusion. chillout. gypsy. funk. turntablism. latin. afrobeat. arabic. vocal. trance. jazz. blues. rock. classical. ambient. bhangra. rai. soca. zouk. raggae. dancehall. ska. punk. soul. RnB. trip and hip hop. DnB. world music... www.dublab.com/http://www.sky.fm/ Alex Gaudino feat. Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria (original Rune/Enur - Calabria) Feel that saxy sax! Switch - A Bit Patchy Darbuka - Onur Il from Turkey Thousand Hands Of Guan Yin - Simply amazing!

Movies:

we are music.we permeate and consume each other.we are music.our beating hearts.the absence of sound is sound.volver. the namesake. décalage horaire (jet lag). todo sobre mi madre (all about my mother). the big blue. sexy beast. pan's labyrinth. mixed nuts. woman on top. cry, the beloved country. lucia y el sexo. the mask. beetlejuice. edward scissor hands. addams family. nothing but trouble. el hijo de la novia. an inconvenient truth. great expectations. the fifth element. the breakfast club. amores perros. city of god. les choristes. the last days of disco. a night at the roxbury. kung fu hustle. kill bill. corinna, corinna. high fidelity. the shawshank redemption. frankie and johnny. inventing the abbots. ghost world. ed wood. the imposters. pulp fiction. the truth about cats and dogs. almost famous. spirited away. snatch. frida. chocolat. the godfather. requiem for a dream. american history x. a league of their own. gia. E.T. nightmare before christmas. the matrix. castaway. a streetcar named desire. an unmarried woman. copycat. fear and loathing in las vegas. a beautiful mind. salsa! american beauty. some like it hot. IT. the mask. reality bites. the virgin suicides. girl, interrupted. men of honor. the green mile. the others. the usual suspects. and justice for all. the paper chase. mermaids. with honors. gorillas in the mist. don juan de marco. full monty. monty python. the talented mr. ripley. superstar. the ring...

Television:

six feet under. IFC. documentaries. music videos/performances. stand-up comedy. some sitcoms.

Books:

the alchemist. ruba'iyat of omar khayyam. disposable people (*highly recommended*). the stranger. metamorphosis. civil disobedience. smack. the thief and the dogs. catch22. le petit prince. more... currently reading: memoires of my melancholy whores by gabriel garcia marquez and eleven minutes by paulo coelho.

Heroes:

the silent and unsung ones.

My Blog

music: malaguena. flamenco. spices. etc.

Sabicas - Malagueña de Lecuona(flamenco) Sabicas - Arabian Dance (solo flamenco guitar) Compay Segundo - Guantanamera Celia Cruz - La Vida Es Un Carnaval (live) Sal...
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music: tinge tinge

Bethany & Rufus - 900 Miles Bob Dylan - Baby Blue Terence Trent D'arby - Delicate Maxi Priest - Close to You Maxi Priest + Shabba Ranks - House Call I-Wayn...
Posted by afro.medusa on Fri, 18 May 2007 07:47:00 PST

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Jiddu Krishnamurti:A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for th...
Posted by afro.medusa on Thu, 17 May 2007 07:10:00 PST

MO.LO.KO.

"I never doubted itWhat's for you will not pass you byI never questioned itIt was decided before I asked whyIts all there ever wasAnd its all there ever will be,"- Moloko, Familiar FeelingCheck it! Ro...
Posted by afro.medusa on Mon, 14 May 2007 08:13:00 PST

An Inconvenient Truth

ActionThe average American generates about 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year from personal transportation, home energy use and from the energy used to produce all of the products and services...
Posted by afro.medusa on Fri, 11 May 2007 09:12:00 PST

Gossip: Jiddu Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti on GossipQuestion: Gossip has value in self-revelation, especially in revealing others to me. Seriously, why not use gossip as a means of discovering what is? I do not shiver at the word ...
Posted by afro.medusa on Thu, 10 May 2007 10:30:00 PST

The Life and Death of Kevin Carter

Monday, Sep. 12, 1994The Life and Death of Kevin CarterBy Scott MacLeod/JohannesburgThe image presaged no celebration: a child barely alive, a vulture so eager for carrion. Yet the photograph that epi...
Posted by afro.medusa on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:22:00 PST

l'orient: darbuka, bellydancing, turkish delight, oud...

Arabic 1 - darbuka solo and bellydance:Part I Part II Freestyle and bellydance to Hindi tune "Maar Dala" Turkish belly dancer Didem Arabisch turkisch belly danc Bel...
Posted by afro.medusa on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 05:16:00 PST

Kenya: photos

Great Rift Valley regionMasaiLake NakuruAcacia TreeMombasaNgorongoroAmboseliMasai MaraNairobiSerengetimore:http://www.cedcc.psu.edu/khanjan/cc Kenya/best_of_kenya.htmhttp://xpresstours.org/north.html...
Posted by afro.medusa on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:11:00 PST

tube: life.music.life

roger sanchez - another chance brand new heavies - boogie brand new heavies - surrender simply red - sunrise etienne de crecy - am i wrong? novika - depen...
Posted by afro.medusa on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 09:10:00 PST