Eba
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Reformer of the Arab World (no, seriously) |
| Location | Bahrain |
| Introduction | Still trying to find out |
| Interests | Music, chess, Sufi poetry, naturopathic medicine, different ways of preparing eggplant, yoga, good lovin', the perennial philosophy, scotch, long journeys and short walks, herb, NPR, and lots of good red wine. |
| Favorite movies | Withnail and I, Last Orders, The Usual Suspects, The Shawshank Redemption, The Big Lebowski, Moulin Rouge, Cinema Paradiso, Adaptation, Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, anything by Woody Allen, most Mel Brooks films, plus a few more I can't think of right now. TV series (bought or rented on DVD): The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood |
| Favorite music | Jazz, especially bebop (e.g. Weather Report). Classic rock: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, etc. More modern rock stuff I listened to in high school and still love: REM, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, etc. Also: Astral Weeks (V.Morrison) and August and Everything After (C.Crows)are two of the greatest albums ever produced. |
| Favorite books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Catch 22, Stranger in a Strange Land, Godel Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum, How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays, The Illuminatus Trilogy, A History of God, The Gnostic Gospels, and about 400 chess books. |