Chinese-Buffalo

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Gender Male
Industry Science
Occupation Archaeologist
Location Bucks County Countryside, Pennsylvania, United States
Introduction anthropologist interested in all aspects of humanity - past, present and the future and the places where people live. http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_chinese-buffalo_-_tales_travels_and_photos_thereof/sets/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_chinese-buffalo_-_tales_travels_and_photos_thereof/
Interests Archaeology, Anthropology, Travel, Philosophy, Rastafarianism, Rastafari, Irish Hurling, Iománaíocht, All Blacks Rugby Union, Arsenal Football Club, The Gunners, Pieds-Noirs, Krav Maga, Asceticism, Mysticism, Austin-Healey 3000 British racing cars, Bering Sea Crabbing, Aleut Sea Kayaks, Prehistoric Art, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Cinéma, primate ethology, dog psychology, bindle stiffs, swagmen, British Raj, UK Royal Army Brigade of Gurkhas, Bollywood, Indian Test Cricket, Australian Test Cricket, Whirling Dervishes, Troposphere, Tropopause, Monsoons, Coriolis Force, Etymology, Philology, noms de guerre, મોહનદાસ કરમચંદ ગાંધી, iconography, Kwakwaka'wakw Potlatch, Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee, Guinness Stout, Rogue Ales, Alaskan Brewery Smoked Porter, Jameson Irish Whiskey, Soul Food, Phở, Frank Lloyd Wright
Favorite Movies Escape from New York (1981), The Wickerman (1973), Platoon (1986), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Gunga Din (1939), The Man Who Would be King (1975), The Harder They Come (1972), Zulu (1964), Freaks (1932), The Commitments (1991), The Great Escape (1963), The Endless Summer (1966), Black Hawk Down (2001), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Beau Geste (1939), The Great Escape (1963), Deer Hunter (1978), Casablanca (1942), The African Queen (1951), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), Breaker Morant (1980), Gallipoli (1981), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), The Last Wave (1977), A Man for All Seasons (1966), Belle de Jour (1967), The African Queen (1951), Gran Torino (2008), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Captain Blood (1935), The Mark of Zorro (1940), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Favorite Music classical, Hurdy Gurdy, Blodwyn Pig, Alvin Lee & Ten Years After, Keith Richards & the X-Pensive Winos, Ronnie Spector, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Thelonious Sphere Monk, King Solomon Burke, Clamfight, The Unspoken, Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, North Indian Rāga (rāgam) & Carnatic Rāga, Country Joe McDonald, Fine Young Cannibals, Neville O'Riley Bunny Livingston, The Wailers, Édith Piaf, The New Riders of the Purple Sage, Astrud Gilberto, Richard Thompson, Flora Purim, Eric Burdon, Hank Williams Sr., Patsy Cline, Koko Taylor, Etta James, Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, Harry Nilsson, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, Lou Reed, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Steve Winwood, Robert Palmer, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Blue Cheer, It's a Beautiful Day, Seatrain, Spike Jones and His City Slickers, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Jerry Garcia Band, Long John Baldry, Buck Owens, Plastic Ono Elephant's Memory Band, Maddy Prior, Steeleye Span, Pierre Bensusan, Miles Davis, Jean "Django" Reinhardt
Favorite Books Oxford English Dictionary (Unabridged), La Nausée (1938) & L'Être et le Néant (1943) (Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre), The Marine Corps Code of Conduct, On the Road (Jean Louis Kerouac 1951), Dharma Bums (Jean Louis Kerouac 1958), The Drifters (James A. Michener 1971), Travels with Charley: In Search of America (John Steinbeck 1962), Soul of the Ape (Eugène Marais 1919, 1969), A Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Medinah and Meccah (Sir Richard Francis Burton 1855), Bēowulf (anon, ca. 8-11th century), Ulysses (James Joyce 1922), Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand 1957), A Study of Archeology (Walter W. Taylor 1948), The Thousand Mile Summer (Fletcher 1964), The Call of the Wild (1903) - The Sea Wolf (1904) & White Fang (1906) Jack London, Chasing the Monsoon (Alexander Frater 1990), Either/Or (Søren Aabye Kierkegaard 1843), L'Étranger (Albert Camus 1942), The Mind of Primitive Man (1911) & Primitive Art (1927)(Franz Boas), An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments With Truth (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1940), Green Hills of Africa (Ernest Hemingway 1935), The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway 1926), A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway 1929), The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway 1952), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (Ernest Hemingway 1936), Lonesome Traveler (Jean Louis Kerouac 1960), Big Sur (Jean Louis Kerouac 1962), Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (Robert M. Pirsig 1974), Howl (Poem, Allen Ginsberg 1956), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson 1972), Steal This Book (Abbie Hoffman 1971)