Travel (backpacking), Tennis, Swimming, Movies, Reading, Beer, Cigarettes, Playing Rummy, Travel...Nothing beats living in a treehouse on the beach in Goa or drinking copious amounts of alcohol in Bulan bar in Ubud, Bali...well, perhaps, trekking and partying in Nepal. NEXT: East Africa, Peru
Music
Sarah Vaughan, Jessye Norman, Kathleen Battle, [esp the "Spirituals" CD the two made with James Levine], This Mortal Coil's "Filigree and Shadow", Prince, Sade, Tears for Fears, Allison Kraus, George Michael's Listen Without Prejudice Volume II, Nina Simone, Nitin Sawhney, City of Angels soundtrack, Love Jones soundtrack, Deborah Cox's "How Did You Get Here" Dance Mix, Dance Remixes of Whitney's slow songs, Mecano's "Descanso Dominical", Maria Callas' arias are the best sex music on the planet!
Movies
Baghdad Cafe, Breaking the Waves, Paris Texas, There's Something About Mary, Fight Club, Magnolia, 12 Monkeys, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Edward Scissorhands, Dogville, The Sweet Hereafter, Beautiful Thing, My Life as a Dog, Anything from Dogme 1995 movement, Babette's Feast, Antonia's Line, Booty Call, The Waterboy
Television
24, Grey's Anatomy, House, ER, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Flavor of Love
OLD FAVORITES: Austin Stevens Snakemaster, Big Cat Diary, Six Feet Under, Any adventure based reality show, Most shows on Discovery Science, political news programs
Books
Favorite Writer: James Baldwin, Books: The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver), The Golden Notebook (Doris Lessing), A Prayer for Owen Meaney (John Irving), Song of Solomon & Jazz (both by Toni Morrison), John Updike's "Rabbit" series, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Crime and Punishment, Invisible Man, The Alchemist, biographies esp. Edmund White's bio of Jean Genet, shipwreck and survival stories
Heroes
Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Audrey Hepburn, Cartman, Angelina Jolie.
See pics of trip to Maya Mundo:http://aardvarx.com/maya/index.htm
"Only put your mind to it,
and what repels you today
will appeal to you tomorrow.
That is what she thinks she heard her mother say,
before she drove her out.
She believes it to be true.
She persists,
she walks,
she despairs:
I'm too young,
I must go back.
'If you come back,'
her mother said,
'I shall poison your rice.
I will kill you.'"
-- The Vice-Consul, Marguerite Duras
one of my new students looks like he could be your son if you had a baby with a blond woman. he's pretty adorable, but seems like a trouble maker. I've never seen anyone so ready for a new school, he ran off the bus and across the street with full speed, like he knew where he was going.
Looks like some shit's been going down in Little Rock. Political war! Bro my travels are temporarily extinguished. I'm looking to buy a house now. Guess it was a good idea that I did a lot of shit over the past 10 years because now with the american dollar sucking and the cost of travel high it's not a good time to disappear.
YO A DOG! It's been too long. How's everything going? Everything cool here. You know Matt lives in NYC. Probably going to see him on Saturdy. Hit me back
Hey... I'm going back to Japan for good on 29th of this month. I don't think coming visit you before that 'cause don't know having enough time and money. I'll call you soon...
Hey Andre! Still at Hostel Bekuo... I was back in the states in June and I went to a Mercedes Sosa concert in Chicago. It was fantastic. Gracias a la Andreeeee. :-)
i have a small surprise for you. very small, so don't get excited at all. is your mailing address still the same? if it's changed since january. send it to me.
hahahaha you put the you touched my tralala song on your page. fucking great man. Sorry i didnt get back to you before. I been busy working like a mexican again. Dont know what happened to my boy matt handley. I wonder if he's still moving to NYC. i havnt heard from him. I'm good. Trying to figure out what my next stage is gonna be. Hope your doing well. I'm gonna try to send you something funny right now...
