Avi Barzel
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Illustrator, designer and writer/ |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | The Almighty has kindly kept me (mostly) out of trouble and sustains me for reasons only He understands. 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 "dreadnought" 6-string acoustic guitar, hiking in Ontario, wondering what to do with the beutiful hills and valleys in the foothills of the Balkans which I inherited inherited... |
| Favorite Movies | A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner I, Dune, The Wages of Fear, Raid on Entebbe, Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Grapes of Wrath, Monty Python's Meaning of Life... |
| 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, Die Antwoord, Daneliya Tuleshova... |
| Favorite Books | Steinsaltz Babylonian Talmud, the Koren-Rabbi Sacks Siddur, the NCSY Bencher, The Guide for the Perplexed and the Mishnah Torah by Maimonides, writings by Rabbi Natan Slifkin (a.k.a. the Zoo Rabbi), Chaim Grade, Marvin Harris, Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou, Frank Herbert's Dune series, anything by Trevanian esp. Shibumi, everything by Tom Clancy, PG Wodehouse, Beowulf, Miltin's Paradise Lost, Jerome Klapka Jerome'sThree Men in a Boat, Gustave Flaubert's Mme Bovary, Jack London, Jules Verne, Rudyard Kipling, Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings, Niccolo Machiavelli's Discorsi and The Prince. |