Music: Sublime, Nirvana, Guns-n-Roses, Aerosmith, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Cult, Sizzla, Andre Nikitina Movies: The Life Aquatic, Chinatown, Stand By Me, City of God, Adaptation, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American Beauty, Repo Man, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Alien(s), The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, the Incredibles. Books: The Song of Ice and Fire, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ender's Game, Short Stories (in general), The Long Walk, Moby Dick, Invisible Cities

In Cairo, there are no stop signs and traffic lights are ubiquitously ignored (crossing the street is like playing frogger). Consequently, busses don't stop when they need to pick up passengers, they just slow down to about 5 or 6 MPH. If you are a strapping young Egyptian man, you can jog alongside the bus and hop in fairly easily. If, however, you are an eighty-year-old ancient running alongside the bus in a full-length gallabaya, you are the most amazing thing I have ever seen.