darwinian

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About me

Gender Male
Location Oakland, CA
Introduction If I were a religious man, Darwin would be my god, Dawkins and Dennett my patron saints.
Interests art and design and movies and photos and food and drink and driving fast and racing my bicycle
Favorite Movies Are you kidding?! How much time have you got?! In the Mood for Love, Seven, Alien, Pulp Fiction (and just about any Tarantino), Blood Simple (and just about any Coen brothers), Mulholland Drive (and most David Lynch), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and her Lover (and just about any Peter Greenaway), Manhattan (and most Woody Allen), Metropolitan (and also Barcelona and The Last Days of Disco, by Whit Stillman), Sin City, Waking Life, Moulin Rouge, Chicago . . . okay I'll stop now.
Favorite Music r&b, soul, neo-soul . . . D'Angelo, John Legend, Anthony Hamilton, Alicia Keys, Macy Gray, Joss Stone, Amy Winehouse, Erykah Badu, Nicole Willis . . . and then after that it gets pretty eclectic: Thievery Corporation, Pink Martini, Crystal Method, Dan the Automator, Bebel Gilberto, K.D. Lang, Billie Holiday, Workshy, Texas, Akemi Kakihara . . .
Favorite Books This is another long list . . . how about just some favorite authors: David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Powers, Richard Dawkins, John Berger, Ayn Rand, Daniel Dennett