animal liberation, HapKiDo, North African/"Middle Eastern" dance (Raqs al-Shaqi, folkloric, "Danse Orientale", "belly dance"), language (Sanskrit, Spanish, Hungarian, Arabic, Korean, Portuguese), music, visual and performing arts, reading, "spirituality" (including but not limited to Alchemy, Rastafari, Voudoun, Santeria, etc.), "old school" piercing/tattooing/"body modification" and other "alternative" practices/activities (i am very proud and lucky but most of all HONOURED to be able to say that Jim Ward did ALL my "exotic" piercings . . . and yes, i still have all my old issues of "PFIQ"), Eight Limbs of Yoga, Capoeira, Ayurveda, and other "traditional" forms of healing and BEING, etc. etc. etc. . . .
I'd like to meet:
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"Love everyone, feed everyone,
remember God, tell the truth"
-- Neem Karoli Baba (Maharajji)
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"Winta? Winta nethenna? Win el-jenna?/Es cxovreba ra dznelia! Dzveli dro as dabrundeba/Wselt h'etta el-bh'ur u rjaat aatshan/Ghemmedt ainiya u sbah' el-h'al ali-ya/Momavals davelodebi sixarulit gatendeba./Winta nethenna? Win el-jenna?/Ramdeni ram minaxia! Ramdeni ram gamivlia!/Skol'ko octolos' u nas vremeni?/Ostolos' li vremja?/Siq'varuli gadagvartchens, tugavuts'vdit ertmanets xels/Fin terji?/Skol'ko octolos' u nas vremeni?/Ostolos' li vremja?? Skol'ko octolos' u nas vremeni?/Ostolos' li vremja?" (English translation from Algerian, Georgian, and Russian: "When will I find peace? Where is Paradise?/How difficult life is! The old times will not return/I reached the seas and returned thirsty, I closed my eyes and suddenly it was morning/I shall wait for times to come. With the coming of day joy will arise/When will I find peace? Where is Paradise?/How many things have I seen! How many things have I lived!/How much time have we got left? And is there any time left?/Love will save us if we reach for each other's hand/Where are you running to?/How much time have we got left? And is there any time left? How much time have we got left? And is there any time left?") -- Rachid Taha
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"The wreckage of a hero/
Lies broken in the corner/
And everyone pretends/
They like to live that way"
-- Gary Numan
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" Vamos todos a bailar al estilo africano si no lo sabes bailar yo te enseñaré mi hermano..." -- Willie Colon
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"You dey go your way, the jeje way/
Somebody come bring original trouble/
You no talk you no act/
You say you be gentleman/
You go suffer, you go tire, you go quench/
Me I no be gentleman like that/
I no be gentleman at all o/
I be Africa man original/
I no be gentleman at all o/
Africa hot I like am so/
I know what to wear but my friend don't know/
Him put him socks, him put him shoe/
Him put him pant, him put him singlet/
Him put him trouser, him put him shirt/
Him put him tie, him put him coat/
Him come cover all with him hat/
Him be gentleman/
Him go sweat all over/
Him go faint right down/
Him go smell like shit/
Him go piss for body him no go know/
Me I no be gentleman like that/
I no be gentleman at all o/
I be Africa man original"
-- Fela Anikulapo-Kuti
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"Pure!/
Our culture is not democratic. . . /
There is no law, nor consideration!/ . . .
Few, very few rights! Great is oppression! In politics, the rulers have neutered the people . . . Our culture is a one-party system. Neither law nor respect . . . /
Everythings is locked up! There is no law left! There is no right to speak! . . . /
As for me, my heart is pure! I like joyous love!/
As for me, my heart is pure! Joyous!"
-- Rachid Taha
Music:
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Patti Smith, Rachid Taha, Tinariwen, B-Tribe, Pete Missing/Missing Foundation, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Amistades Peligrosas, Banco de Gaia, irr. app. (ext.), Cymande, Manu Chau, Gil Scott-Heron, Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, Antibalas, Slits, Shujaat Hussein Khan, Einsturzende Neubauten, Shakira, Cedric Brooks, Gogol Bordello, Pussycat Dolls, Nick Cave, Television, Juan Louis Guerra 440, Gary Numan, Lucky Dube, Farid El Atrache, Raincoats, Gregory Isaacs, IGGY/Stooges, Albert Ayler, Cafe Tacuba, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Donny Hathaway, Tito Puente, "old" SugarHill stuff, Susheela Raman, Hector Lavoe, Israel Vibration, Abdel Halim Hafez, Mystic, dj Cheb i Sabbah, Amr Diab, Last Poets, Ojos de Brujo, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Los Inquietos, Common, Black Sugar, Peru Negro, Ras Michael, Moby, Turner Brothers, Jah Shaka, Johnny Pacheco, Throbbing Gristle/Psychick TV/etc., Afro-Cuban All Stars, Serge Gainsbourg, Mohamed Abdel Wahad, Conflict, Bob Marley (and family), The Roots, The Fall, Yerba Buena, Prince Far I, Tomas de San Julian, NWA, Eva Ayllon, Judy Mowatt, 00Soul, Ile Aiye, Nurse with Wound, Oku Onuru, Maxwell, Mana, Joss Stone, Maryam Mursal, Celia Cruz, Miles Davis, Lil Kim, Linval Thompson, Marc Anthony, Melanie, Compay Segundo (and all the "Buena Vista Social Club" artists), Floetry, Orquestra Aragon, Brand New Heavies, Mongo Santamaria, Dum Dum Project, Public Enemy, Yami Bolo, Alicia Keyes, Lata Mangeshkar, Naph-Tali, Asha Bhosle, Jill Scott, Geeta Dutt, Burning Spear, Margareth Menezes, Nas, Alpha and Omega, Johnny Cash, Sylvan White, Erykah Badu, early Ramones, Sonic Youth, Blondie, Talking Heads, Dead Boys, Johnny Thunders/HeartBreakers, New York Dolls, Wayne/Jayne County, Cherry Vanilla, Richard Hell, other "old" NYC "punk" stuff . . . old UK "punk" stuff (Clash, CRASS/Fatal Microbes/Honey Bane/Poison Girls/etc., Gang of Four, PigBag, Siouxsie, Sex Pistols, Buzzcocks, Adverts, Blurt, Delta 5, etc.) and "glitter" too (T. Rex, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople, etc.) (sorry i just do NOT remember the term "glam" being used back then!)
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Movies:
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Carnival of Souls, Kill Bill (vol. I & II) (and anything by Quentin Tarantino), The Red Shoes, City of God, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, Fahrenheit 911, Zabriskie Point, Shanghai Triad, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Nicolas Roeg (esp. Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Performance, Track 29), Dracula, The Harder they Come, Bend It Like Beckham, Raising Victor Vargas, In a Small Place, Dead Ringers (and others by David Cronenberg: Crash, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, etc.), Pakeezah, Blair Witch Project, Battle of Algiers, The Usual Suspects, Goodfellas, The Shining, Monty Python, Devdas, Rockers, Peter Greenaway (A Zed and Two Naughts, 26 Bathrooms, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, etc.), Badlands, Pixote, Honeymoon Killers, Eraserhead, anything by John Waters, Taxi Driver, Lair of the White Worm, Frida, Salo (120 Days of Sodom), Blood Simple, Bad Lieutenant, The Piano, Scarface, Sid and Nancy, In the Realm of the Senses, MicroCosmos, My 20th Century, Damnation, The Begotten, Blood in the Face, Track 29, Fargo, Taxi Zum Klo, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Babe, The Usual Suspects, Goodfellas, Maedchen in Uniform, films of Monika Treut (Seduction: The Cruel Woman, Virgin Machine, Warrior or Light, etc.), Bette Gordon (Variety, etc.), Lizzie Borden (Born in Flames, Working Girls, etc.), ANYTHING by Harry Smith, Maya Deren (Meshes of the Afternoon, Divine Horsemen, etc.), Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Paris Texas, etc.), Jim Jarmusch (Permanent Vacation, Stranger than Paradise, etc.), Jonas Mekas, Federico Fellini (esp. City of Women, 8 1/2, Juliet of the Spirits), Ingmar Bergman (esp. Winter Light, Wild Strawberries), Alfred Hitchcock (esp. Psycho, Rear Window), Luis Bunuel (esp. L'Age D'Or, Un Chien Andalou), Jean Cocteau (esp. Orphee, Blood of a Poet), F. W. Murnau (esp. Nosferatu), Fritz Lang (esp. M, Scarlet Street)
Television:
i prefer the band TELEVISION to the electronic box . . . although i gotta admit i like "Law & Order" cuz it is like fantasy-land . . .
Books:
The Velveteen Rabbit (Margery Williams), The Hidden Face of Eve (Nawal El Saadawi), The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett), Down These Mean Streets (Piri Thomas), Prison Writings (Leonard Peltier), Women Who Kill (Ann Jones), Candide (Voltaire), Rules for Radicals (Saul Alinsky), The Correct Sadist (Terence Sellers), The Torture Garden (Octave Mirbeau), anything by Patti Smith, Arthur Rimbaud, Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas K. Gandhi, William Burroughs, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Jean Paul Satre, Anais Nin (esp. "A Spy in the House of Love"), Mario Vargas Llosa, Arundhati Roy, Clarice Lispector (esp. "The Hour of the Star"), Julia Alvarez, Angela Carter, Pablo Neruda, Edwidge Danticat, Flannery O'Connor (esp. "Wiseblood"), Georges Bataille (esp. "Story of the Eye" and "Erotism"), anything published by Re/Search or Zone . . .
Heroes:
PATTI SMITH!!! RACHID TAHA!!! ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT!!! ZAPATISTAS!!! TELETUBBIES!!! REV. DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR!!! MOHANDAS K. GANDHI!!! IBN AL-'ARABI!!! ROD CORONADO!!! THICH NHAT HAHN!!! FRIDA KAHLO!!! MARCUS MOSIAH GARVEY!!! MICHAEL "TATTOO MIKE" WILSON (R.I.P.)!!! JIM WARD!!! FAKIR MUSAFAR!!! BOB "SUPERMASOCHIST" FLANAGAN (R.I.P.)!!! H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I!!! ANGELINA JOLIE (and ANY womon who chooses ADOPTION over MINDLESS BREEDING)!!! JOE STRUMMER!!! CESAR CHAVEZ!!! THE PROPHETS MUHAMMAD (PBUH) AND JESUS CHRIST (PBUH)!!! AND ALL THEE GREAT EXALTED GODDESSES AND GODS OF ANCIENT EGYPT!!!
