Kagemusha

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Professional Cellist, Professional Scholar, Teacher & Writer
Introduction	Professional cellist, former US Marine, professional scholar, academic, occasional college professor and former high school teacher, writer, programmer, web designer, friend to the great and good, fashion icon, revolutionary and part-time philosopher, JCR has led a weird and wonderful life, delightful and painful but never boring. He has lived fully (no matter the consequences).
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