Alexander Chow-Stuart

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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Communications or Media
Occupation	Author and Screenwriter
Location	Shanghai, Jiangsu, China
Introduction	Blissed-out Father Husband Buddhist Author Screenwriter TimeTraveler FlyingSquirrel. Email: tranquilbuddha@gmail.com
Favorite Movies	In The Mood For Love, 2046, There Will Be Blood, WALL-E, Finding Nemo, For All Mankind, Big Wednesday, Lost In Translation, The Long Goodbye, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The Wedding Crashers, Blade Runner, The Insider, The Bourne Ultimatum, Three Kings, Coup de Torchon, Trainspotting, Any 1960s Godard, 2001, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Lawrence of Arabia, Performance, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Fargo, Donnie Darko, 8 1/2, High and Low, Punch-Drunk Love, Manhattan, Groundhog Day, Heat, The Shining, Amores Perros, City of God, The Mirror, It Happened One Night, Moneyball, The Life Aquatic, The Descendants
Favorite Music	Far too much to list, but Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations (by J S Bach) would probably be my choice for a single piece of music to live with - and Lana Del Rey is my current fixation.
Favorite Books	T S Eliot: Four Quartets, The Dhammapada (Teachings of the Buddha), Bhagavad Gita, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Love In The Time Of Cholera, John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Albert Camus: L'Etranger, All of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe novels, Charles M Schulz: The Complete Peanuts, Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita, E L Doctorow: Ragtime; Loon Lake, F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby; The Last Tycoon, Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man And The Sea, Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky, Dashiell Hammett: The Maltese Falcon, Henry Miller: Tropic of Cancer, Rilke: Duino Elegies, Joan Didion: The White Album, Democracy John Irving: The World According To Garp; A Prayer For Owen Meany, Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Bret Easton Ellis: Less Than Zero, Antonio Tabucchi: Indian Nocturne