Arshad Ali

narbonne, ucla, harvard

educator & student

reading, writing, coffee, intelligent conversation, living politics, cultural criticism, building relationships and community, laughing, good music, good food, finding ways to cut the legs out of american hegemony

the sufi path of love, nologo, soledad brother, islam: religion of life, tao te ching, teaching to transgress, mystical poems of rumi, prision writings (Leonard peltier), the darqawi way, adbusters, pedagogy of the oppressed, zinn, chomsky, michael moore

rabbit proof fence, fight club, the triplets of belville, donnie darko, igby goes down, bowling for columbine, ammores perros, ghost world, pretty in pink, trainspotting, scratch, napoleon dynamite

bright eyes, morrissey, stevie wonder, N.E.R.D., joy division, deltron, DM, cannibal ox, common, blackstarr, cat stevens, curtis mayfield, the cure, elliott smith

avoid the box, except of course for the simpsons & family guy

Leo

i have become a bit more of a recluse of late, but i do enjoy the company of others who can have good conversation, laugh at and tell a joke, and dont need to place themselves at the center of the world.

anyone who will hurl rocks at their own home.