Ladrón de Basura (a.k.a. Junk Thief)

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Industry Non-Profit
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Introduction JunkThief is your typical Gallic Jew boy born on the Great Plains, went to Gotham and Ouagadougou and Kathmandu before settling in San Francisco's Mission District. Now he searches the dark alleys of that city to find good conversation, Weimar culture and (but of course) the perfect door knob.
Interests Gardening, city life, gay, international travel, (some) politics, outre music, silent film, French and Weimar German culture, Barcelona, San Francisco, Argentina, cities on the Caspian sea, home improvement, Junk with a big J
Favorite Movies Dreigrossenoper, Oper Milagro, The Last of Sheila, Mothra, Black Narcissus, Six Degrees of Separation, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, The Plow That Broke the Plains, The Grapes of Wrath, Rules of the Game, Central Station, Apartment Zero, Wild in the Streets, Tarnation, Living Out Loud, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Tokyo Story, Umberto D, The Saddest Music in the World, The Swarm, The Sorrow and the Pity, The Care Bears Movie IV
Favorite Music Kurt Weill, Francis Poulenc, New Order, the Belle Stars, The Divine Comedy, Vashti Bunyan, Guillermo Klein, John Coltrane, Lotte Lenya, Brother Guruk, Caetano Veloso, Miguel Bose, Toru Takemitsu, Schoenberg, Erik Satie, Reynaldo Hahn, Scott Walker, Nico, Chopin
Favorite Books The Orientalist, The Elusive Quest for Growth, Timon of Athens, The Lonely Doll, Horton Hears a Who, The Little Locksmith, The Color of a Dog Running Away

What reason do you have to believe the earth is flat?

I walked to the edge once and stared at the abyss below.