anything travel related [backpacking], sunrise & sunsets, indiahhh, capturing beauty through a lense, watching arsenal in foreign pubs, asian monsoons, red wine; candles & incense, the eucalyptus forests of ooty, gigs that warm the heart, playing footy with thai kids, arriving in bangkok and feeling at home, random reunions around the globe, late nights - later mornings, exploring new cities, pondering the truths of 'the prophet' & ecclesiastes, pumpkin soup in autumn, paradise beaches, GOOD MUSIC + good people, documenting my rambles, smoking hookahs & talking deep, being with fellow TCK's, rare connections in rarer places, strange hotel rooms, going wherever the wind blows...
SEE MY PICS
its all about the kids...
[my thai orphanage lovelies]
below is a short-film that ben made, starring moi!
LOW, iron & wine, cat power, mazzy star, lamb, black hearts procession, radiohead, mogwai, serena maneesh, bonnie prince billy, bright eyes, songs:ohia, sufjan stevens, coco rosie, this beautiful mess, damien jurado, mogwai, brown feather sparrow, portishead, aereogramme, mojave 3, neil halstead, beck, kent, starsailor, massive attack, pedro the lion, woven hand, natalie merchant, U2, mum, sigur ros, four tet, the flaming lips, elliott smith, the verve, richard ashcroft, trespassers william, godspeed you black emperor, a silver mt. zion, coldplay, mew, kings of convenience, sarah hepburn, glorybox, sparklehorse, depeche mode, blonde redhead, starflyer 59, at the drive in, diefenbach, unwed sailor, james william hindle, suede, blur, gorillaz, belle and sebastian, morcheeba, sarah mclaughlan, aimee man, damien rice, logh, bic runga, pj harvey, A camp, the cardigans, stereophonics, denison witmer, pinback, asa irons, vashti bunyan, red house painters, embrace, [some]death cab, smog, stereolab, stine nordstrom, the high llamas, sun kil moon, ester drang, rachel goswell, dolorean, third eye foundation etc.
LOST IN TRANSLATION, magnolia, les miserables, fever pitch, the life of brian, moulin rouge, monsoon wedding, salaam bombay, born into brothels, almost famous, lagaan, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the cup, in the mood for love, happy together, chungking express, the station agent, buffalo 66, saved, the virgin suicides, what's eating gilbert grape, gattaca, pride & prejudice, the motorcycle diaries, amores perros, lock stock & two smoking barrels, snatch, amelie, life is beautiful, cinema paradiso, 21 grams, 28 days later, red white and blue, lord of the rings, kill bill 1 & 2, chocolat, hidious kinky, maria full of grace, requiem for a dream, pi, reality bites, 8 1/2, central station, smoke, mon rak transistor, wai on la won 4, the life aquatic, millions, all about my mother, evil, city of god...
there's nothing like britcom...
ooh, and 'match of the day'!
the prophet - gibran, god of small things - roy, love in the time of cholera - marquez , red earth and pouring rain - chandra, the alchemist - coehlo, on the road - kerouac, junky - burroughs, midnights children/the satanic verses/the moors last sigh - rushdie, miss wyoming - coupland, the chosen - potok, the plague - camus, immortality - kundera, the ragamuffin gospel - manning, hullabaloo in the guava orchard - desai, interpreter of maladies - lahiri...