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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 13 MARCH 2022 10 ALMANAC My essentials JOE AZZOPARDI 30, Actor, Producer I'm a half-Maltese, half-English small bundle of energy that is either flat out busy without a moment to breathe or blissfully unemployed and most probably in or on the sea. Father is a film tycoon and godfather of the industry in Malta and mother is a spiritual, yoga teaching, nutritionalist. I think I emulate both of them. 1 2 4 5 1. Book 3 2. Film/TV 3. Internet 4. Music 5. Place I'VE strangely not really been impressed with the films up for the Oscar noms this year. 'Tick, Tick… Boom!' Has got to be my clear faverouit. I love Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals and I thought he smashed it with his directo- rial debut. THOUGHT this was appro- priate since we just legal- ised cannabis [see photo for meme.] 'SOMETHING by Alex Phil- lips'. Alex is one of my best friends and a sensational artist. His new EP 'All I've grown' is a real work of art. SINCE COVID hit I've real- ly found the beauty in Sicily. That easy place to travel to which is just a ferry ride away and with so much to see. I al- so fund the love for Spain in 2021 visiting Madrid, Barce- lona and Ibiza. Ibiza wins. It's double the size of Malta with half the population and they absolutely embrace nature over there. Not like in Malta where we find any excuse to cut down trees and lay down some tarmac. WELL I spend most of my life reading script after script so books rarely make their way into my line of sight. Though I have recently picked up 'The Dude and the Zen Master' by Jeff Bridges and Bernie Glass- man. It's an entertaining, charming, inspiring look into the minds of two practicing Buddhists through the lens of the Hollywood cult film The Big Lebowski.