Perhaps, J.D. Salinger said it best when he opened Catcher in the Rye with Holden Caulfield's observation that, "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kinda crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth."

Interests

• arts
• books
• literature
• cooking
• music
• hinduism
• anthropology
• biology
• ecology
• gender studies
• philosophy
• psychology
• religion
• sociology
• cinema
• mythology
• linguistics
• buddhism
• conciousness
• cosmology
• psychedelics

Music, Movies, and Books

While I don't actually have a favorite book or song, or album, or band, or film, or painting, or any other category of things that contain more than one equally great contender, here is a glimpse of things I like - in no particular order.

Cinema: Ingmar Bergman, Kenji Mizoguchi, Andrei Tarkovsky, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Jean Renoir, Yasujiro Ozu, Masaki Kobayashi, Nagisa Oshima, Abbas Kiarostami, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Hiroshi Teshigahara, David Lynch, Agnès Varda, Buster Keaton, Ernst Lubitsch, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Melville, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Michael Haneke, Woody Allen, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Federico Fellini, Jean Vigo, Jacques Becker, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Werner Herzog, Fritz Lang, Michelangelo Antonioni, Joshua Oppenheimer, Asghar Farhadi, Lars von Trier, Quentin Tarantino, Bela Tarr, Chris Marker, Miguel Gomes, Reha Erdem, John Waters, Louis Malle, Bruno Dumont, Chantal Akerman, Lucrecia Martel...

Books: Anything by these - Dostoyevsky, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Oguz Atay, Orhan Pamuk, Sabahattin Ali, Kafka, Shakespeare, Vladimir Nabokov, James Joyce, Orwell, Hasan Ali Toptaş, Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, Martin Amis, Elena Ferrante, Clarice Lispector, Anaïs Nin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Susan Sontag, Don DeLillo, John Banville, Hermann Hesse, Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel García Márquez, Philip Roth, W.G. Sebald, David Foster Wallace, James Baldwin, Kierkegaard...

What I Can Share with Hosts

My rather intuitive cooking, some great and some not so great ideas, stories of joy and pain, my twisted sense of humour, an existential journey which is probably going to challenge a lot of your ideals but also as close to you as your own skin, raw honesty presented with a bag of lies and all things serious that are equally silly.

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