literature. photography. cinema. Waging war til the death on provincialism, bigotry, fascism, and cliche. Asian pop culture. imbibing fine spirits
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A little bit of silence can often be nice.
The majority of Beat Kitano films, Too Many Ways to be No1,Sergio Leone flicks, City of God, Irma Vep, Battle Royale!, Zatoichi flicks,I am Cuba, & Good Revenge flicks in general--"A violent, sprawling epic that delves into the mind of a man who has been wronged, and his painstaking tribulations to see the game come to an end,"--such as Korean masterpiece Old Boy. Taxi Driver, The work of Scorcese, Tarantino, Wong Kar Wai,Fellini, Godard, Antonioni, and so on...
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AT THE MOMENT: Orientalism, The Assasin's Gate, The Right Nation: Conservative Power In America, Niki S Lee:Projects, Ego Trip Big Book of Racism, Slow Jams, Letters to a Young Contrarian, Shooting Under Fire, The New Face Of Asian Pacific America (featuring moi-READ IT), State and Revolution, Asian American Dreams, The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan, The Prophet Armed, Terror and Liberalism, Autobiography of Malcolm X, and the many timeless classics
There are many who have made an impact upon me. They include: Helen Zia, Beat Takeshi, Bruce Lee, Wong Kar Wai, Thomas Paine, James Nachtwey, Sebastian Salgado, the Hitch, Ho Chi Minh, George Orwell, and my dear mother