Michael Moore

• Age: 52
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Cancer
• Zodiac Year: Rooster
• Industry: Transportation
• Occupation: Dispatcher
• Location: Iowa : United States

About Me

I am a stranger here below, and what I am 'tis hard to know; I am so vile, so prone to sin, I fear that I'm not born again. (Lloyd's Primitive Hymns, no. 380)

Interests

• Sacred Harp singing
• "good old way" singing
• hymn texts
• spirituality
• Biblical Christianity
• Isaac Watts
• time travel
• food
• worship reform

Favorite Movies

• A Christmas Carol (1951)
• Lady For a Day
• The Good Fairy
• It Happened One Night
• All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
• Psycho
• My Brilliant Career
• The Blues Brothers
• Life is Beautiful
• Master & Commander
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Carnival of Souls
• On the Beach
• Dark City
• The Iron Giant
• To Have and To Have Not
• Casablanca
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Down Periscope
• Men In Black
• The Road to Perdition
• The Green Mile
• A League of Their Own
• The Ladykillers (2004)
• Se7en
• Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
• Hope and Glory
• The Birth of a Nation
• Easy Street (1917)
• Why Worry? (1923)
• The Cat & the Canary (1927)
• The General
• The Navigator
• Men o' War
• The Perfect Day
• Blotto
• Beau Hunks
• The Music Box
• County Hospital
• Sons of the Desert
• Block-Heads
• All the Mae West movies
• It's A Gift
• Million Dollar Legs
• The Bank Dick
• Anything with the Four Marx Brothers
• Gold-Diggers of 1933
• 1935
• 1937
• anything with Warren William in it
• all of Frank Capra's films
• Drums Along the Mohawk
• The Farmer's Daughter
• Foreign Correspondent
• The Egg & I
• Amelie
• Ed Wood
• Chocolat
• The Europeans
• 42nd Street
• Footlight Parade
• Scarface (1932)
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Six Feet Under
• Foyle's War

Favorite Music

• Sacred Harp
• hymns
• ragtime
• early jazz
• 19th century brass band music
• John Philip Sousa
• Claudio S. Grafulla
• early country
• British music hall
• Celtic folk
• West Gallery
• Handel
• Haydn
• Mozart
• all the Bachs
• Pleyel
• Dittersdorf
• Biber
• Muffat
• Schmelzer
• William Byrd
• Orlando Gibbons
• Cavalli
• Vivaldi
• Corelli
• Albinoni
• both Scarlattis
• John Field
• Fanny Henselt
• Rossini
• Donizetti
• Giovanni Simone Mayr
• Mehul
• Auber
• von Suppe
• Offenbach
• Gilbert & Sullivan

Favorite Books

• Psalms Hymns & Spiritual Songs (Isaac Watts)
• Olney Hymns (Cowper & Newton)
• Joseph Hart
• Samuel Stennett
• Charles Wesley
• Benjamin Beddome
• James Montgomery
• William Law's Serious Call
• Samuel Johnson
• Joseph Addison
• Richard Steele
• Alexander Pope
• Matthew Henry's Commentary (unabridged)
• Robert Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy
• Country of the Pointed Firs
• Elizabeth Gaskell
• David Copperfield
• The Vicar of Wakefield
• The Annals of the Parish (John Galt)
• Edward Gibbon
• Jane Austen
• Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
• The Imitation of Christ
• The Sacred Harp
• The Europeans
• The Marvelous Land of Oz
• James/Jan Morris
• Miss Mackenzie by Trollope
• Harriet Martineau
• Niles' Weekly Register (for the cartoons obviously)
• Abraham Lincoln's speeches
• The Egg & I
• David Sedaris
• Sarah Vowell
• A.J. Liebling
• Robert Benchley
• Josh Billings
• Bill Nye (d. 1896)
• George W. Peck
• Artemus Ward
• James Thurber
• Mark Twain

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