A minor windfall of a gift certificate at Amazon. My current wishlist is all taken care of. But monies remain. So, recommend me a book, a movie, a cd. Please.
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A minor windfall of a gift certificate at Amazon. My current wishlist is all taken care of. But monies remain. So, recommend me a book, a movie, a cd. Please.
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Abida Perveen with Gulzar
Sajjad Ali’s latest album
Anything by Tuffail Niazi
Broken verses by Kamila Shamsi
Kulliat-e-Shivkumar Batalvi
INDUS SAGA by Aitazaaz Ahsan
veer zara
you’ll feel good
Why, you could always spring for the whole Penguin Classics collection! (Think of the free shipping!)
Actually, the New Yorker 8 DVD set looks quite good.
oops, the link to the classics collection is this
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0147502683/ref=pd_sxp_f/103-7488455-7355861?v=glance&s=books
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell &
The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
in case you haven’t already read them.
Arrogant Worms. It’s a musical group: Canadians, very, very funny stuff.
Total Empire by Louise Young: it’s about the Japanese empire in Manchuria, but it’s gonna get cited by a lot of Empire theorists soon.
Haven’t seen any good movies in ages….
Exterior Of Dome Of The Rock, Jerusalem, Israel, Fine Art Print by Lee Foster, 24×18
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009NT838/qid=1122203322/sr=8-8/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i8_xgl60/102-0756316-7186551?v=glance&s=home-garden&n=507846#amzn-reviews
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553375407/qid=1122202887/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_sbs_1/102-0756316-7186551?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Abida Parveen: Faiz by Abida – Timeless Poetry Rendered Sublime
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/exchange-glance/Y03Y4886001Y7258642/102-0756316-7186551
I think you have already read Ishmael
Enjoy ;)
Get the new CD “In the Heart of the Moon” by Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabet√à. Superb instrumentals, improvised on guitar and kora.
Many thanks all. Excellent suggestions.
Azadi by Chaman Nahal
* “Crime and Punishment” by Doestovsky
* “Gabriel’s Wings” by Annemarie Schimmel
100 years of solitude, by gabriel garcia marquez, if you missed that one.
also, also – for some lighter reading – the pedagogy of the oppressed, by paulo freire
moviewise? night watch – the russian film. awesome.
The Dancing Girls Of Lahore (Hardcover, 2005)
Louise Brown, T. Louise Brown
All your hard earned money on Abida Parveen? *sigh*.
1. Dilip Kumar -Bunny Reuben
2. Nehru’s hero – Dilip Kumar, Lord Meghnad Desai
3. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
4. Diana Krall – Live in Paris CD
5. Cartoon History of the Universe – III Arabia to Renaissance
6. Funny in Farsi – Firoozeh Dumas
7. Akira Kurosawa – 4 Samurai Classics DVD
For the curious, my initial purchase. Thanks for the suggestions!
-The Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Ancient Pleasure District by Louise Brown
-501 Russian Verbs: Fully Conjugated in All the Tenses Alphabetically Arranged by Thomas R., Jr. Beyer
-The Loss of Leon Meed : A Novel by Josh Emmons
-Cakewalk: Adventures with Sugar by Magaret Braun
-If They Move . . . Kill ‘Em!: The Life and TImes of Sam Peckinpah by David Weddle
-London Calling by The Clash
-Schnittke-Concerto Grosso No. 2/Viola Concerto by Alfred Schnittke (Composer), et al
-The Man Who Would Be King : The First American in Afghanistan by Ben Macintyre
-Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur
-Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
-The Cartoon History of the Universe III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance by Larry Gonick
-Rites of Spring : The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age by Modris Eksteins
Get a subscription for NYROB and Harpers if you don’t have them already (I assume you do). Also:
1. Twilight of Equality by Lisa Duggan
2. Reason, Freedom, and Democracy in Islam by Abdolkarim Soroush
3. I assume you’ve seen Ritwik Ghatak movies because apparently everyone in the world except me has and…
4. I like Luna.
Listen to M83 “Lower your eyelids to die with the sun”