BookLoverMC
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Introduction | US Marine Corps veteran and retired professor. After leaving military service and after many years of study, I became an academic. I love to talk books, music, art, and the teaching life. I hate politics and its divisions. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, playing the cello, working with computers, teaching myself html, good conversation, good food. I have a major passion for the Great Ideas. I believe in the Life of the Mind. |
| Favorite movies | Empire of the Sun, Cinema Paradiso, Match Point, Good Will Hunting, The Birth of The Beatles, Vitus, The Tango Lesson, Entropy, and others. |
| Favorite music | Classical, Jazz, Beatles, "Grindcore" Industrial & Hostile Metal, French Chansons, Radiohead, Edith Piaf, and other World Music varieties... also, The Dead Kennedys, Caliban, Limp Biz, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Stanley Clarke, John Scofield, Joshua Redman, Glenn Monroig |
| Favorite books | Too many to mention here... everything by Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude, The New York Trilogy, Palace Moon, The Music of Chance... Paul Auster is a literary god. Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, I have read all of Dostoyevsky's works, I love to read from antiquity, Cicero, Plato, etc., Everything by Haruki Murakami: Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Dance, Dance, Dance, Underground, Kafka on the Shore, |