Matthew Crouch
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Blogger |
| Location | Brussels, Belgium |
| Introduction | Cranky, bearded, left leaning, merry contrarian; roadtripping, learning disabled, miseducated intellectual; Appalachian, desperately seeking a sense of humor, queer as a three euro coin; Gore Vidal and Noam Chomsky reading happy ex-pat contentedly living abroad; tree hugger, Arab fanatic, EUtopian, libertarian (as in Bessie Smith's It Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do); free speech advocate, swimmer, urban bicyclist and Metro rider. Over caffeinated conspiracy theorist. Daily trying hard to maintain an open mind despite the constant struggle. favorite pass time - desecrating the English language out of disrespect for the tyranny of the Anglophones with the history of the world. Heart broken by American foreign policy and its consequences within the states and abroad. Pissed off by the current short sighted corporate cruelty of the oily Bush administration. Anti-military, non troop supporting, flag burner. A post United States free North America envisionist. |
| Interests | Writing, illustrating, reading, Islam, Arabia, Palestine, Yemen, Syria, Pakistan, Science Fiction, Dubai as the inter-galactic new Las Vegas, paranoia based conspiracy theories and other fantasist exploits; post automotive urban planning, anarchism, cooking, ethical treatment of animals, tea, the Arabic Language, the Language of Shakespeare, the various Flemish dialects of the Dutch language, reviving the lost art of conversation, the vanishing night sky. |
| Favorite Movies | Proteus, le Cerf-Volant (the Kite), Raspberry Reich, Fight Club, Main Hoon Na, The Machinist, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Goodbye Lenin, Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Baghdad Cafe, Der Himmel Uber Berlin (Wings of Desire), Daens, Bruxelles mon Amour, Freeway, Westler, Falcon and the Snowman, Contact, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, Easy Rider |
| Favorite Music | Tajweed and Qur'anic recitation, instrumental Sufi music and chant from Morocco, The Tallis Scholars, Ravi Shankar; any Music NOT requiring electronic amplification, Bassam Khalaf, Moby, Sami Yusuf, Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division, Einsturzende Neubauten |
| Favorite Books | The Essential RUMI, Time Suspended, 1984, Beloved, Winesberg Ohio, The Communist Manifesto, Cleopatra's Wedding Present, Confessions of an Eighteenth Century English Opium Eater, Leaves of Grass, Mad Man, Moby Dick, The Sorrow of Belgium, Walden, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon, Annie Proulx, Close Range, Jack London, Iron Heel, Autobiography of Red |
You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
Undetectable plastic weapons grade explosives to sell to the CIA for use in their global death machine disguised as terrorism from Al Qaeda.