Tim Kushi

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Moscow Ballet - Dir., Nat'l Community Partnerships
Location Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
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Introduction In Nepal there was a king crowned while in a coma; he reigned for four days, then died. In America I'm here, sleeping, waiting to be crowned...
Interests Progressive politics, Berkshire politics, utilitarianism, determinism, secular humanism, free intellectual inquiry, film, photography, serious fiction, biographies, poetry, history, John Searle, John Dewey, Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, Terry Richardson, Woody Allen
Favorite Movies Primary Colors, Imaginary Heroes, Wonderboys, Election, Manhattan, The Beach, The Good Son, Smalltime Crooks, Misery, Downfall, Guyver 1 & 2, The Contender, The Royal Tenenbaums, 12 Angry Men, The Client, Interview with a Vampire, Bad Education, My Own Private Idaho, Deconstructing Harry, et cetera
Favorite Music Babyshambles, Magnetic Fields, The Smiths, Tori Amos, Bette Midler-(do not laugh), Paula Frazer, Alphaville, The Libertines, The Czars, Mirah, The Knife, The Hidden Cameras, Sia, Neko Case, The Cardigans, Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Patrick Wolf, The Pixies, Keren Ann, Pansy Division
Favorite Books Hermann Hesse's "Demian", Edmund White's "The Beautiful Room is Empty", Joseph Heath with Andrew Potter's ESSENTIAL "The Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture", William Nicholson's "The Society of Others", Noam Chomsky's "For Reasons of State", Jean-Paul Sartre's "Nausea", Albert Camus's "The Fall", E.O. Wilson's "Consilience", John Dewey's "Education and Democracy", Anne Sexton's "All My Pretty Ones", C.K. Williams' "With Ignorance", Adam Haslett's "You Are Not A Stranger Here", Pascal Boyer's "Religion Explained"