Avi Barzel

About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Whatever brings home the cholent and won't get me in trouble..
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Links	Audio Clip
Introduction	The Almighty has kindly kept me out of trouble and sustains me by letting me scratch out a living by painting dainty portraits for folks with surplus cash and by lugging really big and scary tractor trailers across North America for a continent with a surplus of apetites.
Interests	Time with family and friends, my synagogue, Zionism, reading and art, my Norman "dreadnaught" 6-string acoustic guitar, hiking in Ontario, staying alive and safe on the highways.
Favorite Movies	A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Dune, The Wages of Fear, Raid on Entebbe, Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Grapes of Wrath, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, Borat
Favorite Music	Jethro Tull, (early)Genesis, Supertramp, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Matisyahu, Mozart, lovely lovely Ludvig Van, Israeli Goa trance
Favorite Books	The Soncino Stone Edition Chumash, the Steinsaltz Babylonian Talmud, the Art Scroll Siddur, the NCSY Bencher, the RAMBAM (Maimonides), Rabbi Natan Slifkin (a.k.a. as the Zoo Rabbi), Chaim Grade, Marvin Harris, (Le Roy Ladurie) Montaillou, (Frank Herbert) Dune, (Travanian) Shibumi, Tom Clancy, Hunter Thompson, Robert Ludlum, Phillipa Gregory, PG Wodehouse, Beowulf, Paradise Lost, (Jerome Klapka Jerome)Three Men in a Boat, (Gustave Flaubert) Mme Bovary, Jack London, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, (Baldassare Castiglione) Book of the Courtier, (Miyamoto Musashi) The Book of Five Rings, (Niccolo Machiavelli) Discorsi and il Principe