| General |
"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
~ HH The Dalai Lama
| | Music | Favourite Film-makers:
Akira Kurosawa, Ingmar Bergman, Guillermo del Toro (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labirynth), Abbas Kiarostami, Bhaman Ghobadi, Deepa Mehta (Fire, Earth and Water), Hitchcock and Ken Loach
Films:
KUNDUN, Kaidan, Amadeus, Gallipoli, The Gods Must Be Crazy!, The Castle of Sand(Suna no Utsuwa), Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Breaker Morant, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, 2001 A Space Odyssey, The Face of Jizo(Chichi to kuraseba), Grave of Fireflies, Spirited Away, Master & Commander - The Far Side of the World.
Top Songs: "Song To The Siren" Tim Buckley, "Unfinished Sympathy" Massive Attack, "The Way You Dream" 1 Giant Leap, "Addicted" Neil Finn, "Pour Le Monde" Crowded House
Top Albums:
Ágætis Byrjn ~ Sigur Ros
I'll Be Lightning ~ Liam Finn
Try Whistling This ~ Neil Finn
Together Alone ~ Crowded House
Storms Dressed As Stars ~ Gersey
Since I Left You ~ The Avalanches
Cruel Guards ~ The Panics
Damien Leith
Also into:
Art of Fighting, Chris Isaak, The Cocteau Twins, Crazy Penis, De La Soul, The Dirty Three, Endorphin, Enigma, The Frames, The Flaming Lips, Dave Gilmour, JAMES, Katalyst, Led Zeppelin, The Lightning Seeds, Massive Attack, Mercury Rev, Mylo, OMD, The Panics, Pink Floyd, Pulp, Simple Minds, Split Enz, The Stone Roses, The Triffids, Travis, XTC, Robert Plant, Soul 2 Soul, Wicked Beat Sound System, Classical Indian Recitals, Tibetan Opera, House, Lounge.
| | Books |
Books:
Shantideva's Bodhisattvacharyavatara, "What Makes you NOT A Buddhist" Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche, "The Diving Bell & The Butterfly", Tales of the Otori, Tolkien, Ray Bradbury, H G Wells, Japanese Fairy Tales and Ghost Stories (Kaidan) |
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