The Humanist

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Marketing
Occupation Manager
Location Buffalo, New York, United States
Interests Golf, tennis, reading, politics, classic movies, hockey, bourbon, listening to music, avoiding death
Favorite Movies Modern Times, The Wizard of Oz, Bride of Frankenstein, Little Caesar, Scarface (1931), The 39 Steps, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, The Great Dictator, 12 Angry Men, North by Northwest, Paths of Glory, Vertigo, Bridge on the River Kwai, Touch of Evil, West Side Story, Psycho, Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, The Wild Bunch, The Graduate, Five Easy Pieces, The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, Mean Streets, The French Connection, A Clockwork Orange, Chinatown, Dog Day Afternoon, Network, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, MASH, Serpico, The Hot Rock, Harold and Maude, Blazing Saddles, Apocalypse Now, Breaking Away, Animal House, Raging Bull, Paris Texas, The Killing Fields, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Full Metal Jacket, Trading Places, Blood Simple, Brazil, This Is Spinal Tap, Manhunter, Raising Arizona, Roger & Me, Do The Right Thing, Hoop Dreams, Goodfellas, L.A. Confidential, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, Jackie Brown, Heat, Trainspotting, The Straight Story, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Big Lebowski, Out of Sight, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Traffic, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Bourne Supremacy, Sexy Beast, Brokeback Mountain, Munich, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Rodger Dodger, The Dark Knight
Favorite Music Vivaldi, Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Mascagni, Scott Joplin, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Bernard Hermann, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Who, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, The Pretty Things, The Kinks, Procol Harum, Stevie Wonder, Jefferson Airplane, Crosby Stills Nash, Neil Young, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimi Hendrix (with and without The Experience), Nick Drake, Dusty Springfield, Santana, Joni Mitchell, Fairport Convention, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Cream, Mountain, David Bowie, T-Rex, K.C. & The Sunshine Band, John Lennon, George Harrison, Toots & The Maytals, Peter Tosh, The Specials, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Van Halen (DLR era), Eurythmics, Bruce Springsteen, The Minutemen, Living Colour, Alice in Chains, The Screaming Trees, Soundgarden, Lenny Kravitz, Beck, Public Enemy, Run D.M.C, Eric B. & Rakim, Flaming Lips, Matthew Sweet, Juliana Hatfield, The Jam, Roxy Music, Feist, Coldplay, The Hives, Gnarls Barkley
Favorite Books Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), Catch-22 (Heller), The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck), Animal Farm (Orwell), The Naked and the Dead (Mailer), A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), Burmese Days (Orwell), A Room With A View (Forster), The Loved One (Waugh), Ragtime (Doctrow), One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey), The World According To Garp (Irving), To Kill A Mockingbird (Lee), The Magic Christian (Southern)