A Rational Egoist
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Morris County/New Jersey, United States |
| Introduction | I love classical music, philosophy and all other abstract subjects, fitness, New York City, and art. My tendency is to be a loner by choice, not circumstance. I'm both a misanthrope and an extreme optimist. |
| Interests | classical music, NYC, Objectivism, history, philosophy, military strategy & foreign policy, ultimate frisbee, squash, running, disc golf, film, photography, trumpet playing, learning the piano, music composition/theory |
| Favorite movies | V for Vendetta, I Robot, Independence Day, The Original Star Wars Trilogy, Superman, Superman II, Stargate, Rudy, Hero, Gladiator, Phantom of the Opera, Memoirs of a Geisha |
| Favorite music | Brahms, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens, Schumann, Bruckner, Grieg, Chopin, Schubert, Tubin, Dvorak, Respighi, Holst, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Bach, R. Vaughn Williams, Barber, Bruch, Wagner, Berlin Philharmonic, NY Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Andre Previn, Marco Beltrami and the I, Robot soundtrack, and so on forever. |
| Favorite books | Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Virtue of Selfishness, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, anything else written by Ayn Rand, Sparrowhawk series, The Objective Standard: A Journal of Culture and Politics, Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March |