Ignore the mustache. It comes and goes. It's part of my beast-to prince cycle. Its a complicated relationship. But yeah, about me.

I travel a lot. My motto has been "move to improve" and im in constant search for that one place that will challenge and inspire me. I recently moved to Seattle and I feel right at home, although "home" is an ocean away. My foot is constantly tapping, my fingers always looking for the closest flat surface to drum on, and my mind is always trying to imagine what the lives of the people on the bus looks like.

Im obsessed with anything that has to do with 7'th Art (Cinema) and Im a sucker for beautiful cinematography and excellent screenwriting.

I love meeting interesting people which is why Im trying to learn Esperanto. If you speak it, you're cool. Im already fluent in 4 languages and if you're interested in practicing your French or Arabic, I'd be glad to help. My speaking tends to get a bit rusty when I go for long periods of time without practicing. And please don't feel "embarrassed" by your level. You cant improve if you're not making mistakes.

I cant do this. Im biased. No matter how hard I try, it just sounds like Im selling myself instead of presenting myself.

Freelancing in the tech field to fill a gap of employment that seeking a second degree left, in the hopes of landing a really good job that wont treat me like a drone. Freelancing has worked pretty well for my wandering soul lifestyle so far and gave me the discipline that every 20 something like me needs. So I might not give it up.

Friends have encouraged me to give writing a shot. Creative nonfiction and magic realism fascinate me and I hope one day to write something that will make at least one person FEEL something.

But hey, ask the frog-faced french existentialist what people are doing with their lives . What do I know?

Telling fascinating stories and not so fascinating stories in a fascinating way. Splitting my tongue in half (you'll have to see). Learning things Im interested in learning. Surviving on my own. Bonding with homeless people. Spoiling myself. Giving genuine advice (i made a lot of mistakes). "Orientalizing" western songs. Absorbing information. Teaching stuff. Daydreaming. Coming up with great stories to write, although Im learning how to write them in a great way.

The combination of my ethnicity and how fluent I am in English seems to throw people off. My curly hair if not wearing a hat. My hats. My mustache if you catch me in the "beast" phase. My boyish clean shaven face if you catch me in the "prince" phase. The fact that I cant keep my fingers still if Im listening to a song with a nice beat.

The fact that Im probably staring at those people trying to imagine what they're thinking hahaha.

Books:
The Satanic Verses.
One hundred years of Solitude
Notes From underground
Brothers Karamazov
Catcher In The Rye
Graphic Novels : The Sandman. Watchmen. Y: The Last Man.

Movies:
Synecdoche, New York. Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind (Anything written by Kauffman).
Anything by the Cohen Brothers
Anything By Terrence Malick, but especially, Days Of Heaven.
Sideways
The five Obstructions. Anything by Lars Von Trier.
Lion King.

Shows:
Arrested Development, The Wire, Seinfeld, Peep Show, Downton Abbey (Yes), Game Of Thrones, Firefly, Cowboy Bebop, Battlestar Gallactica, Girls, Extras.

Music:

A lot. In no particular order. Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, The Smiths, The Talking Heads, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Charles Mingus, Donovan, Jacques Brel, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Fleet Foxes and Phoenix.

Food:

A juicy burger with a dark beer.
A well made Gratin with a glass of Pinot Noir.
Couscous with Moroccan mint Tea.
A slice of pizza at 2 am from the best Pizza joint in town. If I'm eating that slice at 2 am then I probably shouldn't drink it with anything.

~ Listening to/Playing Music.
~ Dark micro-brewed porters.
~ Creating things.
~ Being in the presence of majestic beauty. Be it art, nature or just fellow humans.
~ Bonding with someone for the first time and knowing that I've made a friend.
~ Cups of steamy Moroccan mint tea. "The first glass is as gentle as life, the second glass is as strong as love, the third glass is as bitter as death."

Being human and how insignificant I am in the grand scheme of the universe. It makes all my worries seem so banal in comparison.

How to start my own country. It might take few centuries, but It'll work. Trust me. You can ask me about it.

How the Beatles created Blackbird, how Leonard Cohen created Halleujah. How Bob Dylan comes up with his lyrics. Seriously? How do they do it?

How learning languages has shaped my identity and how speaking one language actually changes my attitude. its confusing.

The next big idea

Watching a movie with my roommates.
Watching a show and drinking at a bar with friends.
Playing RockBand, Magic The Gathering, Cards against humanity, Poker with friends.
Having a nice Blues Jam session or playing Bob Dylan.

Im really bad at naming any color that's not part of the basic palette. i cant do it in any language, including my native. Its completely alien to me.

You like hearing interesting stories.
As a tourist, you like getting lost somewhere instead of hiring a guide.
You're ambitious and constantly seeking to be inspired by other people.
You're looking for friends.
You like ice cream.