Raven
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of Psychohistory, Streeling University, Trantor |
| Location | Trantor (planet) |
| Introduction | I was born in the 10th month of the 11,988th year of the Galactic Era (GE) (-79 Foundation Era (FE)). My prediction of the eventual fall of the Galactic Empire has earned me nickname "Raven" Seldon: I guess it stuck. For reasons too tedious to explain, I have made very few in-the-flesh appearances to my interlocutors: just read the book. I prefer to appear in pre-recorded holographic messages when it is time to reveal a Seldon Crisis. However, since the invention of the internet, thanks to Al Gore, I have chosen to reveal my observations (and perhaps a few predictions) on this website. |
| Interests | Michael and Zac, hiking, environmental issues, politics, landscape painting and photography, urban photography |
| Favorite movies | Chinatown (Roman Polanski), The Big Lebowski (the Coen Brothers), Citizen Kane (Orson Wells), Il Gattopardo (The Leapord) (Luchino Visconti), The Third Man (Carol Reed), The Servant (Carol Reed), M (Fritz Lang), Blade Runner (Ridley Scott), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick), Ravenous (Antonia Bird), Cross of Iron (Sam the Man), Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Same), Russkiy kovcheg (Russian Ark) (Aleksandr Sokurov), Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Copola), The Searchers (John Ford), The Dead (John Huston), The Usual Suspects (Brian Singer), Casablanca (Michael Curtiz), The Maltese Falcon (John Huston), The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks), In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong), Anything by Terrence Malik (Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line), Anything by Eric Rohmer (Contes des quatre saisons, Comédies et Proverbes, Contes moraux), Jules et Jim (François Truffaut), Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel), Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel), Three Colours trilogy (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) Stalingrad (Joseph Vilsmaier) Utomlyonnye solntsem (Burnt by the Sun) (Nikita Mikhalkov) The Ballad of Little Jo (not just because it was shot near Red Lodge!) (Maggie Greenwald), This is Spinal Tap (Rob Reiner) The Omega Man (Boris Sagal) Kelly's Heroes (Brian Hutton) Evil Dead 2 (Sam Raimi) Fight Club (David Fincher) Conan the Barbarian (John Milius) |
| Favorite music | Wilco, Calexico, Neil Young, Joe Henry, Andrew Bird, Charles Mingus (Bird), Miles Davis, John Coltraine, Ahmad Jamal, Thelonious Monk, Paolo Conte, Cesaria Evora, Mark Knopler, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Fleet Foxes, Sonny Rollins, Leonard Cohen, Wayne Shorter, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Ornette Coleman, The Be Good Tanyas, Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner (in small doses), Verdi, Chopin, Hayden, Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers Silver Jews Josh Rouse The Acorn Califone William Shatner |
| Favorite books | Dogs of Winter (Kem Nun), The Baroque Cycle (Neil Stephenson), Cryptonomicon (Neil Stephenson), The Culture series (Iain M. Banks), The Foundation Trilogy (Isaac Asimov), A Game of Thrones, et seq (George R.R. Martin), The Last Good Kiss (James Crumley), The Chronicles of Amber (Roger Zelazny), Out of the Flames: The Strange Journey of Miguel Servetus (Lawrence Goldstone and Nancy Goldstone), The Black Company series (Glen Cook), The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), Galleys at Lepanto (Jack Beeching), Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (William Craig), For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway), The Monkey Wrench Gang (Ed Abbey), Desert Solitaire (Ed Abbey), The Lost Grizzlies (Rick Bass), No Country for Old Men (Cormac McCarthy), Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger), A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens), The Man with the Golden Arm (Nelson Algren), Cosmos (Carl Sagan), A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking), Imperial Life in the Emerald City (Rajiv Chandrasekaran) The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene) A Hero for our Time (Mikhail Lermontov) Thin Air (Greg Child), In Search of the Old Ones (David Roberts) |