Waking up in new places, especially beautiful ones. Creative communion and hot chocolate.
Music
Usually breaks down into 4 categories:
Western (but not Country Western) Bands/Singers/Songwriters: Rufus Wainwright, Janis Joplin, Cat Stevens, Outkast, Aretha Franklin, Cat Stevens, Air, Devotchka, All, Zero 7, Incubus, Stretch Armstrong, India Arie, Lauryn Hill, Angie Stone, Three Days Grace, later Beatles, Bjork, Corinne Bailey Rae, Richard "Groove" Holmes, Meat Puppets, and so on...
Ethnic Music: - Arabic: Abdel Halim Hafez, Fairuz, Sabah, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Soap Kills, Ofra Haza, Hamza el Din, classics
- Turkish & Balkan: Tarkan, Sezen Aksu, Ismail Luminovski, KAL, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, etc.
- Brazillian: Marcos Valle, Rosa Passos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Sergio Mendes, etc.
- Other: Les Nubians, Strunz & Farah, and so on...
Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Louis Armstrong, Gershwin, and so on...
Classical: Debussey, Ravel, Dvorak, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Bach, Beethoven, Kreisler, and so on...
Movies
I like movies where the struggling little guy fights and overcomes against daunting odds like:
The Bourne Supremecy, The Pursuit of Happyness, October Sky, Rudy, Mulan, The Jungle Book, Hellboy and stuff like that.
And also quirky funny movies like: Home Fries, Zack and Reba, Arsenic and Old Lace, Noises Off, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Raising Arizona, Night of the Living Dead and stuff like that.
Television
I haven't had TV reception for the last couple of years, so I only know tv from other peoples living rooms and from netflix, but here are a few shows I've caught and really liked:
Charmed, Monk, Black Books, Homocide, the Office - both British and American versions, Law and Order, Magnum PI, Scooby Doo, Extreme House Makeover, BBC's What Not to Wear, Dexter's Laboratory, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, BBC's Ground Force, Monarch of the Glen, all good stuff.
Books
I like books with beautiful language that carry me away to other worlds of thought.
Currently Reading: Notes From the Underground by Dostoevsky, Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, The Business of Art, Collectiong Contemporary, A Reading of Modern Art by Dore Ashton, The Great War for Civilization by Robert Fisk.
Recently Finished Reading: David Copperfield by Dickens, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events Series, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The BFG by Roald Dahl.
A few notable favorites: The Brothers Karamozov, Treasure Island, The Jungle Book, most anything by Roald Dahl, Bury Me Standing, The Veil and the Male Elite, The Phantom Tollbooth, Into Thin Air
About me: Full of passion today, undirected, limitless, aggravating passion for life. - I wrote this a while ago, but it still strangely rings true, but it's gaining direction.
I am also a professional belly dance performer and I teach really great belly dance classes in Baltimore should you ever get the urge to belly dance you can find me here,my belly dance website:
Who I'd like to meet: God. I have got a serious amount of questions. But I'd also like to meet more wonderful people. Wonderful people make my happiness bigger.
i checked out your videos online & was impressed. your technique is quite fluid & lovely. i hope to collaborate with you in the near future. let me know if you're able to attend any of the shows below, & i'll put you on the guest list. :
Friday June 12th The Whiskey (Annapolis, MD) w/ Stushido & Alex Peters
Friday June 19th Free Spirit Gathering (Darlington, MD)
Saturday June 20th (Harmony, MD) Summer Solstice Projekt with Alex Grey/Shpongle, Conspirator, Scream & Benda, Sub Swara, Designer Drugs The Egg, Brothers Past, Joe Nice, Damn Right, Pasadena, and many more!!
Saturday June 27th Eastport A Rockin' Festival (Annapolis, MD)
Saturday July 4th!! Annual SMOKE-IN On the DC Mall at Lafayette Park.
of course you can! let me know if you want bigger file sizes. I wish I could have done more but I was limited from where I was. hopefully I'll join the next class (not the one that just started). I had so much fun. I'd take your photos any time. check out www.flickr.com/photos/artfisch to see my latest. <3 <3
Hello habibiti! Thanks for The ADD..Hope the weather warms up soon! ...Freezing in Bedlah...LOL Selena...Enjoyed your Dance in Dallas, hope to see you again soon!
Thanks so much for the add Shems! How you doing? I would you wish a wonderful week end and a cute continuations in your study! Take care and happy Valentines. Moh. ^^
