Fred Montas, Jr.
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Location | United States |
| Interests | ideas about culture and politics, jazz, basketball, baseball |
| Favorite movies | Citizen Kane, Bad News Bears (1976), Unforgiven, Vertigo, Raging Bull, Young Franeknstein, Apocalypse Now, Miller's Crossing, Bowfinger, The Third Man, Jules et Jim, The Dinner Game, Fargo, Full Metal Jacket, Night on Earth, State of Siege, Diabolique, Do the Right Thing, Dr. Strangelove, The Kid, 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, I Love You to Death, The Bicycle Thief, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Man by the Shore, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Revenge of the Sith, Coming to America, The Godfather I & II, The Warriors, Alien, The Seventh Seal, Wages of Fear, Zelig |
| Favorite music | John Coltrane--Giant Steps, Keith Jarrett--Standards Vol. 2, Joe Williams Sings Count Basie Swings, Charles Mingus--Mingus Ah Um, Charles Mingus--The Clown, Charles Mingus--Changes 1 & 2, Stanley Cowell--Live at the Cafe des Copains, Duke Ellington--...and His Mother Called Him Bill, Duke Ellington--The Great Paris Concert, Mark Turner--In This World, Wynton Marsalis--Black Codes from the Underground, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Again |
| Favorite books | Minima Moralia, Aesthetic Theory (Adorno), The Souls of Black Folk, The Arcades Project, The History of Class Consciousness, The Prison Notebooks, Ulysses, Black Reconstruction, The Black Jacobins, Piano Pieces, Moby DIck, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Native Son, Invisible Man, Beloved, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, King Lear, Atonement, Cane, The Unconsoled, Twelve Million Black Voices, The Bow and the Lyre, Frankenstein, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, The Brothers Karamazov, The Plague, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Wuthering Heights, Paradise Lost, Gulliver's Travels, Invisible Cities, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Memory of Fire, Tuxedo Junction, Twelfth Night, Othello, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Oedipus plays, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Benito Cereno, The Metamorphosis, Hedda Gabler, The Bacchae, The Heart of Darkness, Death of a Salesman, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, The Trial, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf |