turbanhead
41 years old
New York
Male
About
The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds -- pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles -- there really is nothing like a shorn scrotum -- it's quite breathtaking... I suggest you try it.
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Jun 14, 2009
Dil Ki Rani (1947)
This story would not even take up one handwritten purse-sized address book page, it is so lacking in substance. How then does it drag on for two hours! It was interesting for about the first half hour only because it stars a very young Raj Kapoor (he’s 23) and an …
Jun 14, 2009
Gauri (1968)
From the DVD cover: “the saga of an Indian woman…who helps her parents before marriage, and gives her all to her husband after marriage.” I should have run screaming, right? Especially since said Indian woman is also blind (and played by Nutan)? But Mumtaz, Laxmi …
Movies
Shawshank Redemption, Qurbani, Bobby, Children of Heaven, Chalte Chalte, The Battle of Algiers, Schindler's List, Gandhi, Serpico, Hum Paanch, Disco Dancer, Namaak Halaal, Don, Shaan, Rabbit Proof Fence
Music
Public Enemy, EMPD, NWA, Cesaria Evora, Peter Gabriel, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Everything But The Girl, Nina Simone, Sinead O'Connor, Modest Mouse, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, St. Etienne, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Cut Chemist, Thom Yorke, MIMS, Inspirations. Nicos Chelsea Girls, the Au Pairs live, Pete Shelley, Scritti Politti, Im still waiting by Diana Ross, Young Marble Giants, Patti Smith, Postcard records, Sandy Denny, Pet Shop Boys, Ceremony by New Order, Sufjan Stevens, Bless the Weather and Solid Air, Joanna Newsom, Evelyn Champagne King, Gypsies Tramps and Thieves by Cher, The Specials, Blossom Dearie, Aretha Franklin, The Smiths 1983-85, Jonathan Richman, Massive Attacks demos on cassette 1993, Judy Garland, Dusty Springfield, Mike Skinner, Low, Rufus Wainwright, Astrud Gilberto, Shannons Let the Music Play, Bjork and Polly Harvey at the Brits, Cocteau Twins, Arthur Russell, Roisin Murphy, Beth Gibbons, Phoenix, Vic Godards Whats the matter boy, and singing with Fairport Convention at Cropredy and Jeff Buckley at Glastonbury..
Television
The Wire, The Office, Extras, Undeclared, Freaks & Geeks, Upstairs Downstairs, Sesame Street, Thomas The Tank Engine, Amazing Race, Gilmore Girls, Lost, Sanford & Son, What's Happening!, The Jeffersons, Miami Vice, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, 60 Minutes, Arrested Development, Eastenders, Six Feet Under, Oz, The Sopranos, Queer As Folk, Ali G, BJ & The Bear, Real People, Incredible Hulk, Six Million Dollar Man, Dynasty, Twin Peaks, Are You Being Served, PBS Mystery, So Graham Norton, Inspector Morse, Welcome back Kotter, Twin Peaks, The Office, My So-Called Life, King of the Hill, America's Next Top Model, Gilmore Girls, LOST, LAIN, Six Feet Under, Studio 60, Law & Order, COPS, Veronica Mars0
Books
The God of Small Things, Life is Not All Ha Ha Hee Hee, Naked, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, The Corrections, Goodnight Moon, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, Imperial Grunts : The American Military on the Ground, The Complete Thomas The Tank Engine Collection, Frog & Toad, Harry & The Lady Next Door, White Teeth