kennethjameswise
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Foreign Language Instructor |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I am working on my M.A. in Latin American literature and love traveling, learning about a variety of subjects, whether they be theology, foreign languages, world cinema, classical literature....life is too short, and there is so much I want to learn. |
| Interests | Travel (to just about anywhere, but particularly societies that are completely different from the one in which I was raised); cinema; literature; foreign languages; cats. |
| Favorite movies | Fitzcarraldo (1982), Double Indemnity (1944), Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), The Killing Fields (1984). |
| Favorite music | Classical: Rachmaninov, C.P.E. Bach, Hildegard von Bingen, Borodin; classic rock: CCR, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young; alternative: Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Jesus and Mary Chain; blues, particularly Ali Farka Touré; jazz: particularly Coltrane and Davis; bagpipe music; Latin: Buena Vista Social Club, Celia Cruz. |
| Favorite books | The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe, The Way of all Flesh by Samuel Butler, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Journey to the end of the Night by Louis Ferdinand Céline, Middlemarch by George Eliot. |