Sam Sukaton
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Student |
| Location | Westwood Village, California, United States |
| Introduction | UCLA student. Asian-American. Adventist-raised. Aspiring essayist. Religion/History major. Music geek. A cappella and drum corps enthusiast. Saxophonist. Bad at poker. |
| Interests | Writing, reading, MUSIC, talking, walking, sleeping, eating, living. Food, theology, homiletics, religious studies, history, world religions, Adventism, Christianity, languages, music, art, literature, politics, political philosophy, social thought, Asian political and religious history, American culture and thought, Asian American history and identity, Indonesia, literary journalism/creative nonfiction, opinion journalism, ethnic foods, GELATO, college life and student culture, poker, pool, Pac-10 sports, being a Bruin, Los Angeles, California, a cappella music, philosophy, GOOD FOOD, writing Big East/ACC basketball, UCLA Bruins athletics, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Pittsburgh Pirates (see a trend?), poker, magic tricks, drum corps, and more as the story develops... |
| Favorite Movies | Ocean's Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen; the El Mariachi Trilogy, Primary Colors, BETTER LUCK TOMORROW, Music and Lyrics, RENT, Malcolm X, The Perfect Score, THE ILLUSIONIST, The Prestige, 3:10 to Yuma, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bulworth, Drumline, Stomp the Yard, Lord of the Rings, White Castle, I Am Legend. |
| Favorite Music | ROCKAPELLA, a lot of a cappella, collegiate and otherwise, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Joshua Redman, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Newsboys, tobyMac, RENT, John Legend, Tito Puente, Glenn Miller, OutKast, Norah Jones, Anoushka Shankar, Herbie Hancock, Earth Wind and Fire, Chick Corea, Ernesto Leucona, Massive Impact, Matisyahu, Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, Los Lonely Boys, Kanye West, Lea Salonga, Evenescence, Parachute Band, Michael Buble, the Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.), Steven Schwartz, Jonathan Larson, Josh Groban, Bob Marley, marching bands (DCI/Collegiate), Jo Dee Messina, the Beatles, Big and Rich, Keith Richards, Garth Brooks, Clint Black, Rascal Flatts, the Wreckers, the Beach Boys, the Chords, the Crew Cuts, and more that I can possibly name here. A lot of it's vocal stuff, but introduce me to something else that sticks, and I'll put it here. |
| Favorite Books | The Bible, Ten Days That Shook The World, Blue Like Jazz, Hardball, Bird Lives!(The High Life and Hard Times of Charlie 'Yardbird' Parker), Leaves of Grass, Whatever Happened to the Class of '65?, Hamlet, My Life, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, Reporting, The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity, Surprised by Joy, Calvin and Hobbes, Secret Asian Man, Garfield, 1984, Animal Farm, Politics and the English Language, Parliament of Whores, Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, The Kingdom and the Power, Authors: John S. Reed, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Don Miller, David Reminck, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, P.J O'Rourke, Ellen G. White, Paulo Coelho, Gay Talese, K.A. Applegate, Robert A. Heinlein, Fredrick Pohl, Issac Asimov, Alex Haley, Blair Tindall, Tom Wolfe, David Halberstam, William Zinsser, Garry Trudeau, Berkeley Breathed, Jim Davis, Tak Toyoshima, Jon Krakauer. |
Why does the taste of pennies remind you of losing a tooth?
Why are you licking pennies?