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Yael

Life is short. Eat dessert first.

About Me

"I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living." --Anais Nin

My Interests

Dancing, reading, drawing, friends, travel, yoga, movies... Anything intellectually stimulating... sleeping by the beach... Art:Dali, Klimt, van Gogh. Fave painting:Guernica by Picasso and Danae by Klimt...Sculpture:Rodin, Rodin, Rodin, and Canova. Fave sculpture: Winged Victory of Samothrace....Mythology: All. Greek.....Culture:everything. anything I can learn....Dessert: ALWAYS. Screw dieting. Have a salad and chocolate cake.....Travel: whenever I can.

I'd like to meet:

"......no cause, no matter how just, can excuse terrorism. This includes the legitimate struggles of peoples for self-determination. Even this fundamental right defined in the Charter of the United Nations does not excuse deliberately killing or maiming civilians and non-combatants."-- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, April 2006.--http://www.globalpolicy.org/empire/terrorwar/un/2006/ may06kofisreport.pdf

Music:

Live, Placebo, Massive Attack, Portishead, Chicane, Lorna Vallings, No Doubt, White Stripes, Blink 182, Tracy Chapman, Evanescence, Red Hot Chili Peppers

Movies:

Memento, Dogma, Stealing Beauty, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Butterfly Effect, Bridget Jones' Diary, Shawshank Redemption..everything except for slasher-Jason-Freddy-Chuckie movies.

Television:

Sex and the City, SNL, Jeopardy!

Books:

A Spy in the House of Love, 1984, The God of Small Things, The Bell Jar, Nine Stories, The Picture of Dorian Gray, greek mythology, Paulo Coelho, Jhumpa Lahiri, Leon Uris, Colors.. Anais Nin... David Sedaris :) Poetry: Neruda, Whitman, Byron..

Heroes:

Anyone who achieves something they've worked for.

My Blog

Arab....brothers?

Geography vs. ideology: When did the Middle East conflict stop being a simple landgrab (after the British left the region? after the Nov 1947 U.N. decision sparked the Israeli independence war?) and w...
Posted by Yael on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:45:00 PST

Who has a free mind?

Everywhere I see "open-minded" people fighting for "-isms": Socialism, vegetarianism, feminism, zapatismo, etc.. But the very people that are supposedly open minded enough to try and change the world ...
Posted by Yael on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST