Name:

Elliott

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Age:

50

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August 12, 2006

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2 days ago

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23

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Hometown:

San Bernardino, CA.

Country:

United States

Occupation:

Freelance writer, music composer, theatre director, researcher

Companies:

Ishah 'El theatre arts (www.ishahel.org) President, artistic director, writer, researcher, creative development, grant writer... You name it, I probably have to do it...

Hobbies:

God, coffee, soft serve ice cream, writing, reading, research, theatre & drama, music, composing, cultural arts, graphic design, meeting & making new friends, cooking & eating good food, playing polkathrash on my air accordion, making mischief & causing trouble, collecting old images from 1800's middle east; American & Soviet propaganda posters; WPA & FTP posters; scripts from the FTP, early radio, showboat & vaudeville era.

Movies:

Six Feet Under, Pushing Daisies, Studio 60, Wonderfalls, Brothers & Sisters, Six Degrees, Everybody Hates Chris, Fetch!, History Detectives, PBS, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends Home movies... Persepolis, The Station Agent, Stranger Than Fiction, The Terminal, Lagaan, The Visitor, Once, Amelie, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (original with Gene Wilder), The Dead, What's Up, Tiger Lily?, Charade, The Shawshank Redemption, Life is Beautiful, Saint Ralph, The Green Mile, A Very Long Engagement, The Triplets of Belleville, The Tiger and the Snow, Sullivan's Travels, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & friends

Music:

world music & third stream; klezmer, gypsy, Indian, Middle Eastern, soukous, forro, conjunto, fado, qawwali, ghazals, opera, jazz, funk, bebop, experimental composition, film scores & theatre music. Carla Bley, Charles Mingus, Cafe Tacuba, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Habib Koité & Bamada, Dobet Gnahoré, Thomas Newman, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Astrid Hadad Y Los Tarzanes, In The Nursery, The Angel, Sufjan Stevens, Natraj, Salif Keita, Fela Kuti

Books:

A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George Lewis, The Rest is Noise by Alex Ross, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, Collected Poems & Plays of Rabindranath Tagore, The Guide by R. K. Narayan, Color: A natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay, World Tales by Idries Shah, Jorge Luis Borges, Donald Barthelme, plays by George Bernard Shaw, David Ives & Willie Boy Shakes