Jessamy
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Location | Alexandria, Egypt |
| Introduction | "I am not a painter; I am a painting." -- Htein Lin |
| Interests | poetry, magical realism, street graphics, personal politics, art, music, dance, movement, movements, paradoxes, internal rhymes, performance art, experiments and adventures |
| Favorite movies | Va vis et deviens, Pleasantville, Vivre Ma Vie, The Secret Garden, Juno, The Painted Veil, Once, in fact there are very few movies that i love without reservation...actually none. the closest is va vis et deviens. |
| Favorite music | amal murkus, nina simone, asala nasri, billie holiday, sia, wael kfoury, abdel halim hafez, aretha franklin, sia, neko case, anais mitchell, joni mitchell, amy winehouse, regina spektor, deb talan, imogen heap, sezen aksu, brenda fassie, elli kokkinou, etta james, amalia rodrigues, ella fitzgerald, rowaida attieh, judy garland, tryo, andrew bird, alison krauss, stevie wonder, fairouz, oliver mtukudzi, thione seck, souad massi, the police, omm kulsoom, sia, mohammed mounir, sting, eva cassidy, queen, the beatles, citizen cope, the neville brothers, the fugees, lupe fiasco, m.i.a. and lots of other stuff i've forgotten, temporarily abandoned, have yet to discover or won't admit to. |
| Favorite books | the inheritance of loss, salt, the book of salt, the unbearable lightness of being, the secret garden, the god of small things, white teeth, mansfield park, the woman warrior, anything by james baldwin, or amy tan or david sedaris or margaret atwood, sylvia plath, czeslow milosc, gabriel garcia marqez, lorca, mahmoud darwish, taha muhammad ali, iman mursal, sinan anton, nikki giovanni, c.s. lewis, billy collins, the storytelling of garrison keiller on npr, louise gluck, a.k. ramanujan, the half-inch himalayas, edward hirsch, and more, and more, and more |
If your whole body were a hot air balloon, would you stop eating spicy food?
No. And I don't see how the two are related.