art and humanitarian work (w/refugees and trauma victims, children); social justice; being a true friend; putting color on my friends' walls; painting; travel; fun; dancing; exploring obscure mystics' search for truth and inner freedom (and my own); centering the margin[al] because the margin/borderland is the most creative and possibility-filled space; gathering courage to fully penetrate the heart of life; being lost in people's faces. and lots of loving....
Check out the new issue of one of my all-time favorite magazines, CLAM! it contains an interview with me about growing up! (check for Lichiban)
Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness ( 1974 )
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oh, and for clarification...i don't do online dating, so please don't hit me up if you are looking for that. nothing personal, i just don't use myspace (or any other site) as a dating site. thanks!
the only addiction i have... anything from kool and the gang to de la soul, the roots, a tribe called quest, gangstarr, j dilla, pete rock & c.l.smooth, rakim, fugees, mos def, blackstar, bahamadia, nas, blue6, ALMA NYC, king britt, MAW, dimitri from paris, gotan project, cinematic orchestra, sena, dj spinna, stevie wonder, roy ayers, bill withers, james brown, leroy hutson (he is the man!),earth, wind & fire, marvin gaye, curtis mayfield, gill scott-heron, tavares, the coltranes, erykah badu, jill scott, nina simone, sade, cheb-i sabbah, sigur ros, portishead, massive attack, joy division, the herbaliser, mark de clive-lowe, crazy gypsy music (even though that stuff almost gave me nervous breakdown once), afghan, persian, tajik, turkish, indian, tibetan, african folk music, chopin, pergolesi, monteverdi, and bach!oh there is so much more......of course, my friends sarah white, kira, kon&amir, papastomp, dolphin, nappy G. aside from these, these day i listen to a lot of soulful house, nujazz, olschool elektro funk (thanks to the source, Greg Wilson) and 70s soul and disco (Kon, thank you for educating me..disco put honey into my life!).
alambrista!, basquiat, frida, kurasowa's dreams, spike lee joints (especially crooklyn and jungle fever), sweet sweetback's baaadassss song, coffy and a lot of blaxpoitation flicks, beat street, cooley high, secretary, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, born into brothels, in this world, secretary, 12 monkeys, fight club, crash, requiem for a dream, monster's ball, city of god, hotel rwanda, amores perros, my fav animes: my neighbor totoro (by Hayao Miyazaki), the grave of the fireflies (by Isao Takahata),night on the galactic railroad (by Gisaburo Sugii) and the haunting and/or absurdist movies of luis bunuel, andrei tarkovsky and gabor body, feherlofia, and so many more i can't remember
i don't really watch tv anymore... i prefer art & photography. some of my favorite photographers: Sebastião Salgado, James Nachtwey, Gordon Parks, Eikoh Hosoe, Jamel Shabazz & Graciela Iturbide; artists: Durer, Max Ernst!, Warhol & Basquiat, Frida Kahlo..amd so much more. Some of my favorites from today: designers of the Scrawlcollective (UK) and Tank Theory (US), Doze Green, Barry McGee, Yoskay Yamamoto, WK Interact, Heavyweight and my friends' works (Luke Powell, ninerevolutions, Heat, Ferb, Problak, Marka27, Mohi)
another hard one (i have way too many books)..kafka, borges, toni morrison, bell hooks, antoine de saint-exupery, poems of rilke, sandor weores, bela hamvas, lao tse, hafez, rumi (and other less known sufis), tantric buddhist texts, and many more rebel mystics' writings. i love ethnic cookbooks (i am a DJ in my kitchen) and collect photography books on nomadic tribes and urban street life and art
all the underdogs out there who manage to save their dignity and to nurture their love of other human beings in the face of discrimination or oppression.people who are willing to be outcasts, to be on the margin for a higher goal and to be able to live a more authentic life...who are not afraid of loving, and believe that human suffering can be healed by action born out of love, and feel the urge to alleviate it. most of these people remain unknown.