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PREVIOUS NEFISA 'FRONT PAGES'

/ claudia daut - yasunobu - takeshi kitano - kamrooz aram - atkinson grimshaw /

/ ben curtis - y.misdaq aka yoshi - mohammed quraish - kajima corporation /

/ unknown - yoshi in andalucia & northern morocco - luke powell - andy goldsworthy /

/ 'slum in dub' album cover - fahr el nissa zeid - jeffery.a.cornwell - yoshi releases debut lp 'from a western box' - hassan turabi /

/ wijdan ali - yemen - kid being taught - yoshi in san diego - yoshi in denver /

/ john martin - unknown - yoshi in venezia - yann arthus bertrand /

/ jean-claude roy - homaira hanif - yoshi releases second lp 'flowers & trees' - nadia janjua /

/ 'spleen & ideal' album cover - arthur dove - y.misdaq aka yoshi - wayne trapp - john lennon & yoko ono /

/ hiba shahzada - farewell fire - yoshi in chicago - yoshi in tunisia /

/ joe jusko - lion - david shrigley - steve tobin - my mother /

/ shirin neshat - paul gaugin - sun ra - henry ossawa tanner - william blake - etienne dinet /

/ abdul-mati klarwein - henry darger - helen redman - kurt vonnegut - david lynch - african wood statue /

/ amy talluto - rocky balboa & apollo creed - la raie verte /

[ if you want to see full-size versions of any of these, ask nicely. webmaster [at] nefisa.co.uk ]

PREVIOUS 'HUMANS-DIARY' ENTRIES / WRITINGS

Imran Saithna (January 2007)

Splat! Dodd! GET OUT! (November 2005)

I'll Fly Away (September 2005)

Bombs under London (July 2005)

The arts of life (an hour or two) (May 2005)

Sabah's life and what it means (Mar 2005)

My Baby. My manhood (Mar 2005)

Procrastinate (Feb 2005)

Snow. Childhood.... (Dec 2004)

To all you haters (Nov 2004)

Amrikki (Apr 15 2003)

The build-up to Iraq war/occupation (Jan 25th 2003 - Mar 30th 2003)

PREVIOUS SONGS FEATURED ON NEFISA

Charlie Parker - Embraceable You

Brian Eno - Golden Hours

Ne Zdhali - In China they are also Sad

Bill Laswell - Towers Open Fire

Leonard Nimoy - Where it's At

Ua - 大きな木に甘えて

Kenneth Spencer / Hall Johnson Negro Choir - The Old Ship of Zion

Drone + Rodolphe Gissinger - Heidi

Holocaust - God be with you

Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren

Nick Cave - There is a Light

Neil Young - Living with War

Bob Dylan - One More Night

Sun Ra - Retrospective

Alicia De Larrocha (Granados) - Oriental

Donovan - Song of the Naturalist's Wife

Mos Def - Love

Kurt Vonnegut - Excerpt from the novel Timequake

George Harrison - Be Here Now

Jaco Pastorius - Portrait of Tracy

Pink Floyd - Breathe

Love - Maybe the people could be the times

Santana - Going home

Silvio Rodriguez - Si tengo un hermano

The Doors - People are strange

Richard Ashcroft & Coldplay - Bittersweet Symphony' (live @ live8)

Alice Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Outkast - You May Die

Helios Sequence - Everyone Knows Everyone

Tom Russell - Muhammad Ali

Leonard Nimoy - Consilium

Prince - Soul Sanctuary

Foo Fighters - Big Me

Wu-Tang Clan - Impossible

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart'

Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam) Wild World

Morelenbam & Sakamoto - As Praias Desertas

Aesop Rock - Daylight

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Diabaram

"I never knew art 'til I saw your face" Grandmaster Melle Mel - 'Beat Street'

Just listen to these lyrics... Professor Shehab & Dr. Israel - 'Trust'

"You are veiled and bold" Giles Peterson & Mos Def - 'Creole'

"It's a hawk, it's a dove, it's the promise of spring" Susannah McCorkle - 'Waters of March'

"Out of my head, things are different..." Shuggie Otis - 'Aht Uh Mi Hed'

Just listen to the blues. This is the blues- Chris Thomas King - 'Hard time killing floor blues'

"In love with the impossible truth..." Rilners & Kilroy - 'Untangling the collegiate patsy catheter'

"Lucky Fella!" - Dean Martin - 'That's amore'

"Warm as the sun, dipped in black" Lauren Hill - 'The Sweetest Thing'

"Good emcees are not real, they're fake!" Dutty Doogz/Wiley - 'Slew'

Everything in this song is a quote - Killah Priest - 'Heavy Mental'

Marvin lives forever - Erick Sermon featuring Marvin Gaye - 'Music'

"Ignorance & Hate may mourn the dead... Listen to the colour of your dreams" - Beatles - 'Tomorrow Never Knows'

"Fix up look sharp" - Dizzee Rascal - 'Fix Up Look Sharp'

"I would like to always light your world" Esham - 'Envy The Sunshine'

"Everybody looks so fly... but I love you just the same" - Cherrywine - 'Dazzlement'

"I still dream" - Kate Bush - 'Cloudbusting'

"There are two colours in my head" - Radiohead - 'Everything in it's right place'

"A'salaam Alaikum, Alaikum Salaam, Peace to planet Earth, Peace to Islam" - Beastie Boys - 'In a world gone mad'

"Has anybody seen my universal antidote?" - Earthling - 'Nefisa'

The vulnerability in the voice of a live performance is beyond anything - Coldplay - 'Amsterdam (live)'

"Don't be afraid, to open your heart and pray..." - Sinead O'Connor & Massive attack - 'Sing what your soul sings'

"Royal Blue lies inside the eyes heaven" - Ghostface Killah - 'The Soul Controller'

PREVIOUS QUOTES ON NEFISA

ORBS

"This earth has the fragrance of hearts." - Hazrat Khwaja Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki

"If you want to get one good hour of painting in, you have to have four hours of uninterrupted time." - Bushnell Keeler

"Dear Lord, give us rain from tame, obedient clouds and not from dense and fiery clouds which summon death. Amen." - Ali Ibn Abu-Talib

"did you know that 'if' is the middle word in life?" - Walter Kurtz

"Do you understand this painful paradox of life & dreams?" - Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi

"Have you ever had milk directly out of an udder?" - Hamza Yusuf Hanson

"You don't know me and you don't know my style" - O.D.B.

"When I find my peace of mind, I'm gonna give you some of my good time" - Anthony Kiedis

"I consider that what art does for you is that it constantly rehearses you for uncertainty. Something happened you didn't expect...
Something happened that defied your expectations, even" - Brian Eno

"Woher kommt dieses Wesen?" Heidegger

"All things must pass away. Strive for your own salvation with diligence." - Siddhartha Gautama aka Buddha

"yesterday is dead" - Miles Davis

"I drink Evian water while my thoughts get published" - Cappadonna

"My work is personal, I'm a working person, I put in work, I work with purpose" - Mos Def

"you're a flower!" - Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi

"I never found any real charm in the pleasures of the mind unless I was able to forget all about the interests of the body" - Rousseau

"Africa is my descent, and here I'm far from home. I dwell within a land that's meant, for many men not my tone...
Showers to your innocense, to protect you for all eternity. With this wood I beat this drum, and we won't see defeat" - D'Angelo

"Life divides and sorts. Life passes death by...Death was passed by whenever there were promotions
Death stayed sitting there like some wretched employee." - Gunnar Ekelof

"It is madness to entrust yourself to common sense. It is madness to doubt it.
It is madness to look ahead. It is madness to live without looking." - Boris Pasternak

"Give me love, love is what I need to help me know my name" - Seal

"the rain drops, the rain drops, the rain drops..." - Thom Yorke

DRUMS

"When you're around me all my grief gives way, a lifetime with you is like some heavenly day" - Bob Dylan

"Why didn't the life-guard save the hippy? Because he was too far out." - Simeon Aston

"Life is blunt, roll with it." - A girl in Los Angeles called Rizen

"I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove" - Ani Difranco

"Takes all kinds of people to make up a world" - Kilgore Trout

"A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving" - Lao Tzu

"what art does for you is constantly rehearse you for uncertainty. Something happened you didn't expect. The codes you brought to understand this were inadequate. Something happened that defied your expectations, even" - Brian Eno

"You were right about the stars, every one is a setting sun" - Jeff Tweedy of Wilco

"The fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then link it up with society and the state and the world." - Kenzaburo Oe

"No one, I think, is in my tree. I mean it must be high or low" - John Lennon

"I'm a warrior, I'm a warrior! In this concrete jungle it's hard to stay humble" - KRS-One

"Prince of peace, won't you hear our pleas? Ring your bells of peace, let loving never cease" - Leon Thomas

"Dost thou think [that] because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?" - Shakespeare

"What's the use of money if you ain't gonna break the mould?" - Prince

"Two words, United States, no love, no brakes
Low brow, high stakes, crack smoke, black folks
Big Macs, fat folks, ecstasy capsules
Presidential scandals, everybody MOVE" - Mos Def

"Music can only influence the people who hear and appreciate it.
I'm grateful that there do seem to be people who are interested in the music and what it's trying to say." - Terry Callier

"To me, music is far more deep than making videos and doing shi- like that.
Music's some deep shi-, you know what I mean?
Music is me. That's what I am, really. So that's a part of me till the day I die." - D'Angelo

"my mission is that powerful music" - High Priest

"all citizens empowered with rhythm" - Del tha funky homosapien

CAKES

"While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. " - Eugene Debs

"When I was young, I was told: 'You'll see, when you're fifty.' I am fifty and I haven't seen a thing." Erik Satie

"We have forgotten how to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns." - Andrei Tarkovsky

"If sensual desire arose, instead of crushing it, he took note of what had given rise to it, and how soon it faded away." - Karen Armstrong on Buddha

"Is it a hushed stillness or a pause between explosions?" - Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore

"I don't recognize anything that doesn't recognize a bloom." - Jeff Buckley

"We have righted a wrong that is being done by the financial world, which operates a caste system by not giving money to the poor.
We are doing something about it. Now they cannot say that the poor will not repay." - Mohammed Yunus

"They'll be half-you and half-me." - Marlon Brando

"They willingly traded everything they owned...They do not bear arms, and do not know them...
They would make fine servants... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
- christopher columbus on Native Americans

"Were you born to resist, or be abused?" - Dave Grohl

"You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup. You know what I mean? If you get the talent you gotta use it and you better not lose it."
- red auerbach

"start before I can stop" - chris martin

"You be fickle" Rza

"If ritual is supressed in one form, it crops up in others..." Mary Douglas

"You learn to ride the Earth, When you're living on your belly" - Kate Bush

"When I was just a child, I was misunderstood,
'til I saw your finger in the cloud, I was picked from the hood." - Killah Priest

"Wha'do you fink you are!?" - My dad

"Y'all don't know what I feel, y'all too safe!" - Nas

"You should never again mistake humility for weakness" - Divine Styler

"bread crumbs dancing" - Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi

"You stood out like a ruby in a black mans ear." - Joni Mitchell

"It's nice to hear you say hello..." - RJD2

"That's the thing you gotta remember about wasps kid;
They love animals, can't stand people." - Gordon Gekko

"Get busy big baby, 'cos when them devil come, them devil come dressed as light,
Maybe they gon' fool the untrained mind, but nobody I know gon' bite." - Prince

"I do not believe any man has ever loved to see little bambinos frolic and play more than I.
Frequently, on my walks, I stop to watch their mischief with an interest I see no one share." - Rousseau

"Dancing is when you rise above both worlds,
tearing your heart to pieces and giving up your soul" - Rumi

"The heart sanctuary does exist, but it can't be described. Why try?" - Rumi

"You're a hostess!" - Latyrx

QUILLS

"Arabs are opressed people, that's why they are passionate.. and when they are angry they are destructive"
- Dana Shahzada

"I'm really sorry for your ageing head, but like you heard me said, I'm not guilty" - George Harrison

"If I said it, I meant it, bite my tongue for no-one..." Notorious B.I.G.

"All that we shall do or say will amount to giving those who come afterwards facilities which we ourselves were not given.
Here as everywhere else it is the beginning of the work that is hardest."
- Abdel Wahed Yahya (previously known as René Guénon)

"I was noble personage, born to beautify the page" - Donovan

"Mysteries are irritated by facts" - Norman Mailer

"In each manifestation is the seed of a striving towards the abstract, the non-material" - Wassily Kandinsky

"I'm headed for a land that's far away, beside the crystal fountain..." - Harry McClintock

"Then you can start to make it better..." - Paul McCartney

"there you will find love is always king, it's where echoes shine and reflections ring" - Leon Thomas

"It ain't hard as things seem" - Killah Priest

"Behold as I shape and mold your formless globe into a perfect 'O'
and breathe the breath of life into your nose" - Rza

"God reached softly, and moved her body" - Brian Wilson

"Only small-time thinkers believe that I preach" - Divine Styler

"She don't understand the rules / You don't bite the man who dipped your hands in jewels" - Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian

"He who acts only for fame and reputation, Allah (God) disgraces him" - The Prophet Muhammad

"And if it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne errected within you is destroyed.
For how can a tryant rule the free and the proud, but for a tyranny in their own freedom and a shame in their own pride?" - Kahlil Gibran

"Nothing could be more natural than the development of the passions,
nor more striking than the views of the human heart" - Mary Wollstonecraft

"I just been doin' hella readin' again, tryin' to keep up on ish...
I actually feel hella younger now. I'm 27, but I feel like I'm 17 again,
'cause I'm right back there when I was like the most open" - Del Tha Funky Homosapien

"We rarely confide in those who are better than ourselves.
Most often, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses.
Hence we don't want to improve ourselves or be bettered,
We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen" - Albert Camus

"You're my stick, my walking stick" - Y.Misdaq aka Yoshi

ALL OF THE QUOTES ARE SELECTED BY THE WEBMASTER, Y.MISDAQ AKA YOSHI