Enjoying Every Breath I take... Food! Chocolate. Wine. Simply, all things Culinary. Books. Dancing. Art. History. Architecture. Fashion. Costume History. Football (uh, American's... it's called Soccer in your native tongue). Road trips to anywhere. Everything Medieval. Talking to strangers and hearing their stories. Camping. Eating Ice Cream in the cold. Skinny Dipping in the Ocean at night. Playing in the Rain. Riding my Bicycle at home and in new cities. Traveling the Earth and meeting new members of my human family. Cooking for my family and friends. Learning new languages (I like the way foreign languages feel in my mouth... It's like making love to each letter as you're learning to annunciate it in a whole new way). The Human Mind. Giant machines and mechanics. Motorcycles. Hot Rods. Driving my MINI. Seducing people with my camera. Democracy Now! This American Life. How things work. New ideas. Complex information and ideas I can't wrap my head around. The future of Physics.
I'd like to meet:
The Fearless... ... Ferran Adria, Dario Cecchini, Alain Passard... & ... JoaquÃn Cortés...
1938 Peugeot 402, Maybach Exelero, Bugatti Veyron, the Audi R8 & the Dodge Tomahawk...
What you should be listening to RIGHT NOW! ...
Music:
Lady Day. Janis Joplin. PJ Harvey. Siouxsie and the Banshees. Diamanda Galas. Obscure Medieval Music no one cares about. The Beatles. Bob Marley. Miles Davis. Mozart. Bach. Beethoven. Hendrix. Radiohead. Edith Piaf. Bowie. Portishead. Umm Kulthum. The Ramones. Opera. Ska. T-Rex. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Classical Persian Music. The Prodigy and lots of that Electronic Stuff. All those great hair bands from the 80's. Manu Chao. Tom Waits. Bjork. Many a Disco tune. Latin Music. Los Pinguos. Sydney Bechet. Anything highly percussive. Middle Eastern Music i can Dance to. And on, and on... you get the idea. -- Bad Country Music, Celine Deon and Andrea Bocelli DON'T appeal to me.
Movies:
Fight Club. Big Night. The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman. Nightmare Before Christmas. Orlando. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. What the bleep do we know?!(though it has some cheesy parts...). Memento. Latcho Drom. Summer of Sam. Do the Right Thing. Pi. 7-41UP series. Cinema Paradiso. Motorcycle Diaries. Rushmore. The Big Lebowski. Henry and June. Lost in Translation. The Usual Suspects. Prospero's Books. Touch of Evil. Farinelli: il castrato. West Side Story. Andrei Rublev. Tie me Up, Tie me Down. Ridicule. Y tu mamá también. City of God. The Children of Heaven. Delicatessen. Before Night Falls. Kung Fu Hussle. El Ãngel Exterminador. Red, White & Blue series. Clockwork Orange. The Red Violin. The Hunger. Smoke. Angelheart. Whatever happened to Baby Jane. The Lion in Winter. Amelie. Le Ballon Rouge. Ann of the Thousand Days. The Incredibles. Good Fellas. Pulp Fiction. Harold and Maude.
Television:
Most of the time, I either don't have time for it... or I try not to watch too much TV - I like my braincells too much... Ali G. Sopranos. Six Feet Under. The Daily Show. Great Chef's of the World. A Cooks Tour. Project Runway. Top Chef. The L Word. Sex and the City. Anything where engineering is involved. Anything involving the building of machines, hot rods, and bikes. Tatoo/body modification. Football (soccer).
Books:
Books are as close as I get to the act of worship.... Some of my Fav Writers/Thinkers... Dante (He made hell sexy). Sappho. Krishnamurti. Arundhati Roy. Walt Whitman. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Cornel West. Henry David Thoreau. Bell Hooks. Robert Anton Wilson. Shakespeare. Hafiz. Bertolt Brecht. Al Ginsberg. Omar Khayyam. Mallanaga Vatsyayana. Chaucer. John Donne. Marcel Proust. Henry Miller. Tennyson. Mevlana Jelal al din Rumi. Neruda. Byron. Jung. Nietzche. John Lilly. Tim Leary. Marshall McLuhan. Wil Burroughs. David Sedaris. Edward Gorey. Some Fav. Books... "The Hero with a Thousand Faces." "Jitterbug Perfume." "The Master and Margarita." Hamsun's "Hunger." "The Catcher in the Rye." "Delta of Venus." "Narcissus and Goldmund." "Siddhartha." "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Wilde's Play "Salome". Goethe's "Faust". "My Name is Red." "Talkhoun." "Interpreter of Maladies." "The Professor and the Madman." "Gospel," a novel. "The Story of O." "Venus in Furs." "The Name of the Rose." "Masks of the Illuminati." "The Monk." "Les Fleur du Mal." "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili." "Lolita." "Perfume." Huxley's "Island" and "Brave New World." "A Confederacy of Dunces." "Geek Love." "The Alienist." "It can't happen here." "Naked." "Ask the Dust." "Animal Farm." "Kitchen Confidential," "Oh, the places you'll go," "The Giving Tree." just to name a few... you get the idea.
Heroes:
St. Francis of Assisi. Rosa Parks. Ghandi. MLK. Coretta Scott King. Harriet Jacobs. Malcolm X. Medgar Evers. Albert Einstein. Dean Kamen. Noam Chomsky. Amy Goodman. Desmond Tutu. Arundhati Roy. Wangari Maathai. The Yes Men. Harry Belefonte. Paul Robeson. Cesar Chavez. Seymour Hirsch. Emma Goldman. Mother Jones. The Suffragettes. The inspiration of my life... Leonardo Da Vinci. Ferran Adria. Oscar Wilde. Mumia Abu-Jamal. Howard Zinn. Orhan Pamuk. Meena and the Women of RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan). The Amazons. Leyla Zana. The Left Behind and Unheard. My Brother and Sister.
