JCR
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Education
- Occupation: Professional Scholar
- Location: A Paradise of Books, Visual Art and Ideas : Bookland : United States
About Me
The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry. -- Ernest Hemingway.
Aren't papier mache cuts the worst?
KILL YOUR TELEVISION TODAY... surf the Internet only for things that are edifying... art, music, philosophy, history, literature, culture, social causes.... Library of Congress... that's the place. www.loc.gov
Interests
- Reading
- writing
- playing the cello
- working with computers
- teachig myself html
- good conversation
- good food and good wine. I have a major passion for the Great Ideas
- and
- having learned a great deal from reading Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations
- " I believe in the Life of the Mind.
Favorite Movies
- Empire of the Sun
- Cinema Paradiso
- Match Point
- Good Will Hunting
- The Birth of The Beatles
- Vitus
- The Tango Lesson
- Entropy
- and others.
Favorite Music
- Classical
- Jazz
- Beatles
- "Hostile" Industrial Metal
- French Chansons
- Radiohead
- Edith Piaf
- and other World Music varieties... also
- The Dead Kennedys
- Caliban
- Limp Biz
- John Coltrane
- Miles Davis
- Stan Getz
- Stanley Clarke
- John Scofield
- Joshua Redman
- Glenn Monroig
Favorite Books
- Too many to mention here... everything by Paul Auster
- The Invention of Solitude
- The New York Trilogy
- Palace Moon
- The Music of Chance... Paul Auster is a literary god. Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
- I have read all of Dostoyevsky's works
- I love to read from antiquity
- Cicero
- Plato
- etc.
- Everything by Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood
- The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
- Dance
- Dance
- Dance
- Underground
- Kafka on the Shore
