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About me

Gender	Male
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Introduction	I'm Marty. I'm a Caucasian male of Semitic and Nordic background. I am social and economic liberal, a leftist, a democrat. I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts 25 years ago, and have lived in Massachusetts no more than 25 miles from Boston my entire life (with the exception of college). I hope you like what I have to say. Send me something if you do. And send me something if you don't as well, I'll accept hate mail. I'd be honored.
Interests	Movies, Literature, Music of most kinds (from The Beatles to 2pac), The Simpsons, Howard Stern, Mental Health, Clarence Darrow, SUPERMAN, Stephen King, George Carlin, James Dickey, People who have been on road trips through the United States, Alaska, Montana, Sweden, the Vikings (the actual men, not the football players)
Favorite movies	(Note: my top movie choices change often, and this list may only be temporary)</p> 1. Ordinary People (1980)</p> 2. Superman: The Movie (1978)</p> 3. Jaws (1975)</p> 4. The Killing Fields (1984)</p> 5. Psycho (1960)</p> 6. I Never Sang for My Father (1970)</p> 7. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)</p> 8. The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)</p> 9. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)</p> 10. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)</p> 11. Rosemary's Baby (1968)</p> 12. Ironweed (1987)</p> 13. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)</p> 14. Midnight Express (1978)</p> 15. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)</p> <b>Breach</b> is the greatest movie of 2007, so far.</p> See this on Friday, and rent <b>The Falcon and the Snowman</b> on Saturday!
Favorite music	<b>The Beatles</b>. No one compares with the Beatles. No one and no composers ever will. Best Group Ever. </p> I also love the Rolling Stones, U2, Queen, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, The Beach Boys, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, Aerosmith, Blues Brothers, Fastball, Supertramp, Everlast, Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt, Alanis Morissette, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Eminem, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Croce, Joe Cocker, Carly Simon, Sinead O'Conner, The Cranberries, Joan Osborne, Wilson Pickett, Ray Charles, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, The Mamas and the Papas, Billy Joel, Buffalo Springfield, Ben E. King, Green Day, Oasis, Everclear, Led Zeppelin, Joan Baez, Aretha Franklin, AC/DC, R.E.M., Percy Sledge, Naughty By Nature, Tupac Shakur, Five for Fighting, Wyclef Jean, The Tempatations, The Pretenders, Van Halen, The Police...Some Classical like Mozart (such as Symphonies #25 & #29) and Beethoven, and also Bach, Mendelssohn (the greatest Jewish early classical composer), Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Rachmaninoff... In Jazz music, I like Charlie "Bird" Parker (Bird Lives!), Mr. Cool Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef...it's all good...
Favorite books	Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck, Ordinary People by Judith Guest, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, The Baby Train & Other Lusty Urban Legends and Curses! Broiled Again! - The Hottest Urban Legends Going by Dr. Jan Harold Brunvand, Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas; Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesday's with Morrie by Mitch Albom, Disclosure by Michael Crichton; Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken, Black Boy by Richard Wright, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton; All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque; Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Private Parts and Miss America by Howard Stern, Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies Edited by Nancy S. Love, Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess,Deliverance by James Dickey; Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, The Shining and The Long Walk and Misery and The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and Apt Pupil and Hearts in Atlantis and From a Buick 8 by Stephen King, Psycho by Robert Bloch,Naked and Barrel Fever and Me Talk Pretty One Day and Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, Without Feathers and Side Effects by Woody Allen, A View From the Bridge and Death of a Salesman and The Crucible and Focus by Arthur Miller CivilWarLand In Bad Decline by George Saunders, Kiss Kiss and Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl, Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, and some Shakespeare I suppose, you have to mention him...