-ben

• Age: 955
• Gender: Male
• Occupation: minstrel

About Me

A round peg in a world of square holes...

Interests

• Scuba diving (technical & recreational)
• swimming
• inline skating
• mountain biking
• cycle touring
• hiking
• caving
• literary events
• literary criticism
• poetry
• audiophilia
• singing
• DIY electronics
• modifying electronics
• photography
• politics
• theology
• trolling
• browsing old bookstores
• driving along the Pacific Ocean
• walks along the beach

Favorite Movies

• Godfather Trilogy
• Aliens Trilogy
• H.E.A.T.
• The Score
• Sea of Love
• Poltergeist Trilogy
• The Professional
• movies with/by Clint Eastwood
• The Hours
• Possession
• A Beautiful Mind
• The Remains of the Day
• Shadowlands
• The Royal Tenembaums
• One Hour Photo
• Koyaanisqatsi Trilogy; serious anime: Grave of the Fireflies
• Perfect Blue
• Jin-roh: The Wolf Brigade
• Millenium Princess; documentaries: Life and Debt

Favorite Music

• Philip Glass
• Dmitri Shostakovich
• Krzysztof Penderecki
• Sergei Rachmaninov
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Gustav Mahler
• Piotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
• Takashi Kako
• Rodrigo Leão & Vox Ensemble
• St. Louis Jesuits
• Leonard Cohen
• Nick Cave
• Jeff Buckley
• Tori Amos
• The Doors
• Squirrel Nut Zippers
• Andrew Bird
• The Ratpack
• Voltaire
• Lycia
• John Barry
• John Williams
• Jerry Goldsmith
• James Horner
• Gabriel Yared
• Michael Nyman
• Kronos Quartet...

Favorite Books

• _Brothers Karamazov_
• _Crime and Punishment_
• _The Idiot_
• _The Sound and the Fury_
• _The Dead_
• _The Last Summer of Reason_
• _Texaco_
• _The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy_
• _The Remains of the Day_
• _Never Let Me Go_
• _Tess of the D'Ubervilles_
• _Lolita_
• _The Enigma of Arrival_
• Samuel Beckett's works

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