Month: February 2006

2/25/06 Been listening to lots of Arabian music. Stuff from Syria too. Islamic studies continue with my reading. Rumi still fascinates. College studies in image restoration taking up some more of my time. ...

We met Stan during the premiere of one of the Whitaker’s IMAX movies about Greece. The movie was sold out, but we got to meet Stan and talked with him about music a bit. He was very cordial and willing to talk about his experiences as a musician. Here he ...

2/12/06 Waiting for Bulu Suite – Bulu called me on short notice today (as usual) and said he was going to stop by. That basically blew most of my afternoon because I didn’t have an exact time (Bengali time is rarely exact, as they say). So since I couldn’t get too ...

2/4/06 Overall I am still feeling very prolific with this, but some of my biggest struggle is: Are these pieces truly inspired by the play, or by what’s going on around me? Both? Probably. My rather sudden emergence into Islamic writings, combined with my perennial study of Sufi poetry, Joseph Campbell ...