INDIANA JOSH
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Student |
| Introduction | I'm a full-time student of archaeology, history, and religion who travels the world in search of beauty, diversity, and raw, unfiltered life -- bringing them all to your computer screen. |
| Interests | Ancient History (pre-1000 AD; ancient Near-East), Religious History and Studies (ancient Judaism, early Christianity, ancient religions and myths of the Near-East), Traveling the world (Africa and the Middle East especially), Reading (everything I can get my hands on), Writing, Languages (Arabic, Hebrew, Akkadian, Greek), Astronomy, World Cultures, Politics and Current Events, Art, Dancing (Popping and Breakdancing), Museums, Observatories, Zoos. |
| Favorite Movies | Into the Wild (all time favorite!), Out of Africa, The English Patient, Indiana Jones (all of them!), Lawrence of Arabia, The Wind and the Lion, The Man Who Would Be King, The Motorcycle Diaries, There Will Be Blood, The Kite Runner, Babel, Powaqqatsi, Blade Runner, Baraka, Last of the Mohicans, The Crucible, The Insider, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Cool Hand Luke, Jeremiah Johnson, The Constant Gardner, Hotel Rwanda, Seven Years in Tibet, Kundun, City of God, My Dinner With Andre, Boondock Saints, Reservoir Dogs, Whale Rider, Legend of 1900, Clerks, Life is Beautiful, The Mission, The Power of One, Beyond Borders, Invisible Children, The Ninth Gate, Beat Street, Breakin', The Freshest Kids, Nowhere in Africa, The Notebook, Good Will Hunting, Ronin, Citizen Kane, Dead Poets Society, Big Fish, I Dreamed of Africa, Secondhand Lions, Tigerland, Gattaca, Leon: The Professional, The Ninth Gate, The Seventh Seal, K-Pax, Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Citizen Kane, A Clockwork Orange, all Kubrick films, The Piano, The Pianist, The Counte of Monte Cristo, A Dangerous Man, Pan's Labyrinth, Die Hard films, and the list goes on, and on, and on... |
| Favorite Music | Eddie Vedder, Pearl Jam, Natacha Atlas, Ben Harper, Bob Dylan, Amr Diab, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sade, Ofra Haza, Coldplay, Mos Def, Art of Noise, Gangstarr, K-Os, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Tool, Claude DeBussy, Soundgarden, DJ Premiere, Eric B & Rakim, Blackalicious, Brian McKnight, Bone: Thugs-n-Harmony, BlackStar, Common, Jill Scott, DJ Krush, Ayub Ogada, Geoffrey Oryema, Incubus, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Incubus, Lisa Gerrard, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Hans Zimmer, Ravi Shankar, Mercy Me, Jars of Clay, Talib Kweli, Pharcyde, Everything But the Girl, etc. |
| Favorite Books | Books on ancient history, world religions, world cultures, and mythology, the Bible, the Tanach, the Dead Sea Scrolls, travel literature, anything by Wilfred Thesiger, The Little Prince, anything by Thoreau and Emerson, etc. |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
An American Idol reject. Or the stuff humans are made of...at least according to the cosmology of numerous ancient cultures.