Software design
Universal film and music
Poetry and ghazals
Classical indian dancing, especially in the Kathak style
Weird old school arcade games like Mad Planets , Q*bert, Crystal Castles, Tron, Qix, Reactor, and Ladybug
Drowning slowly to the deep end of Lake Baïkal
Stuff like that...
I'd like to meet:
... anybody interesting, therefore everybody.
My latest acquisition!
"Cipher Awakening at the Horizon of Denial"
by Shaun O'Dell
More art... by Shaun O'Dell
More art... by Jane Mount
Music:
Besides the artists listed in my top (and other) friends...
Annie Lennox / Eurythmics , Debbie Harry / Blondie , Kate Bush , Chitra Singh ( Listen ), Mehdi Hassan ( Listen ), Fairuz , Mary J. Blige , Sigur Rós , Coldplay , Emmylou Harris , Joan Baez , Vanessa Paradis, Najma Akhtar , Electric Light Orchestra, The Beatles, The Doors, The Who, Yes, Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols, The Darkness, Joan Jett, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, America, John Prine, Carpenters, Diana Ross, Donna Summer, Earth Wind & Fire, Dr. Dre, U Brown, Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, I Jah Man, Madness, Alpha Blondy, Air, Kraftwerk, Shooglenifty, Caetano Veloso, Barbara, Serge Gainsbourg, Michel Polnareff, Michel Sardou, Gérard Lenorman, Farid El Atrache, The Sabri Brothers, Kanika Banerjee, Begum Akhtar, and many more
Also all world styles: african, arabic, brazilian, chinese, french, indian, mongolian, pakistani, and others
And all Western classical eras: medieval, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, and modern
Some of my favorite songs:
Mission: A World Record (ELO)
Shangri-La (ELO)
Across The Universe (The Beatles)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (The Beatles)
And You And I (Yes)
Wonderous Stories (Yes)
The Kids Are Alright (The Who)
Dr. Jimmy (The Who)
Old Man Took (America)
Silent Sunlight (Cat Stevens)
Some of my favorite operas:
Der Rosenkavalier (Richard Strauss)
Parsifal (Richard Wagner)
Die Zauberflöte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Boris Godounov (Modeste Moussorgsky)
Movies:
Andrei Rublev
Au hasard Balthazar
Blade Runner
The Browning Version
A Canterbury Tale
Dark Star
Dazed and Confused
Devi
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Forbidden Games
49th Parallel
I Know Where I'm Going!
In Custody
Jalsaghar
The Killer
King of Hearts
Ordet
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Playtime
The River
Salvatore Giuliano
Samurai Rebellion
Smiles of a Summer Night
This is Spinal Tap
Tokyo Olympiad
Travel Beyond the Three Seas
The Virgin Spring
Yi Yi
And many, many more...
Some of my favorite directors:
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
Ingmar Bergman
Jules Dassin
Francesco Rosi
Kon Ichikawa
Andrei Tarkovsky
Satyajit Ray
Television:
Six Feet Under
Monk
Reno 911
Curb Your Enthusiasm
The Office (UK)
Desperate Housewives
Arrested Development
Absolutely Fabulous (UK)
Mirza Ghalib (India)
The Prisoner (UK)
Monty Python (UK)
Get Smart
And so forth...
Books:
Montaigne
Saint-Simon
Juvenal
Camus
Lovecraft
Poe
Rimbaud
Baudelaire
Lautréamont
Vian
Brautigan
Tolkien
Also icelandic sagas, and more...
Heroes:
Mother
Wife
Everybody else
