User:Firas-al-basha

ABOUT ME

''I grew up in Lebanon, I like the way it feels here. This city is where my family is. . . I would rather be here than -- anywhere. The horizon, fields, mountains receding out past into the distance, connected all the same to a childhood, efforts and exertion, a past that does not dissipate ever in my mind. Beautiful. All my life I have been surrounded by beauty and violence. In many forms. Outside, inside, more difficult to contain. I'm not a difficult person to. . . get along with but I am sometimes, to certain people, difficult to understand. Myself especially. I don't know, I think there are many things inside a person, waiting to breathe, moving, turning over in the darkness, in the light. In myself I feel there are many selves, each complete and separate. I can say I do like to meet people, the first moments of an interaction, the face before me and as a consumption, an understanding. Thinking of how much is real, how much is based on those same perceptions, where it meets, as the opposition delineates, ''                                  Interest

''Other selves, other worlds, broken things. Dark eyes, rough skin. Nightlife. Seeds and roots. Philters and innate ways of being. Instincts, knives. Alternate realities, wisps of smoke. Fire,abilities. Dreaming. Weaving, folding, unraveling. Desire. The scent of jasmine. The clarity pain brings. Deliberate acts and movements. Minds and bodies,their lines, definition. My mind's eye. The calm before the storm. Mountains. Altered states. Lightning. My own anger, when the source is warranted or unknown. The end. Animals. The beginning. Scars, marks, intimations. Keeping things separated. Mirrors, reflective surfaces, rivers. Pupils. Truth. Denial through effort and strain. Silence. Escape. Identifying desire, isolating need. Running. Hunger. Extensions and channeling. Leaving myself behind. The pursuit of knowledge. Sweetness. Consumption. Intertwining. Secret missions. Withholding judgment. Seeing. Tasting. Touching skin. Mangos. Tunas. Pressing against, tracing paths. Examining shadows. Discovery. Exposure, bare skin. Candlelight. Moisture. Fruit. Strength. Abandon, will. Strangers. Circumstances. Acknowledgment and acceptance. Outcasts, the downtrodden.Solitude and isolation. Strong abiding hands,etc..... '' Movies

''The Deer Hunter The Mission, Raging Bull, Whale Rider, Tell Me Something, Taxi Driver, Analyze This, Lena, Maria Full Of Grace, Apocalypse Now, Slingblade, Blue, Girl, Interrupted, Freeway, Monster's Ball, Chopper, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Traffic, Blow, Once Were Warriors, Gloria, Dancer In The Dark, Point Break, Pulp Fiction, Little Big Man, Batman Returns, Tombstone, King of Comedy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gladiator, Instinct, The Silence of the Lambs, The Lost Boys, The Prophecy, The Shawshank Redemption, Fallen, He Got Game, Fight Club, Wayne's World, Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, Lilo and Stitch, The Professional, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Amores Perros, The Devil's Advocate, Heat, Willow, The Princess Bride, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Cape Fear, Best In Show, Waking Life, Ghost World, Enemy at the Gates, River Red ''                                  Books

Men of Maize, Taste of Salt, Beloved, Siddartha, Bless Me Ultima, Temple of My Familiar, Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda, Strange Things Happen Here, Tales of Power, Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe, The Chronicles of Narnia, Catcher In The Rye, The Green Mile, Gabriela Of Clove and Cinnamon, The Giver, A Wrinkle In Time, Journey to Ixtlan, Dicey's Song, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven, The Sound and the Fury, The Outsiders, That Was Then, This Is Now, The Bluest Eye, Pocho, Danny the Champion of the World, The Power Of Silence, God Desiring and Desired, Watch For Me On The Mountain, Matilda, Less Than Zero, Understand This, The Runner, Tortuga, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, Memoirs of A Geisha, The Color Purple, Abel Sanchez and Other Stories, When She Was Good, Of Mice And Men, Knots On A Counting Rope, A Solitary Blue, Sula, Annie John, Paradise, Steppenwolf, Autobiography of My Mother, Bridge To Terabithia, Slaughterhouse Five, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Cat's Cradle, Brave New World, Island of the Blue Dolphins, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, The Beet Queen, Lizard, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Alchemist, The Old Man and the Sea, Gentle Lena, The Little Mermaid, Another Country, Giovanni's Room, Lolita, Half A Life, The Gathering, The Little Prince, Tiger Eyes, Stranger With My Face, Arrow Of God, Things Fall Apart, The Eyes of The Dragon, Behind the Attic Wall, Life Is A Dream, A Clockwork Orange.etc...

Heroes '' Children, Martyrs, People who do not look away or avoid, lose themselves but project themselves, what is inside them to fighting for those who cannot fight for themselves. People with the desire and ability to make this world. . . something else entirely. Those who are humble and strong, without fear or hesitation. People who think, and try, search, believe, dream. I have many heroes. My father is the greatest man I have ever known ,or the most beautiful girl i have ever seen as the only angle child among the world my sister www.rahil-al-basha.spaces.live.com ''