jess
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Madison, WI, United States |
| Introduction | Never wait at a barrier (Rumi). A path is formed by walking on it (Chuang Tsu). The time is always right to do what is right (Martin Luther King, Jr.). These ideas help me stay in balance and on track. |
| Interests | architecture, art, artists, biology, blues, bodybuilding, book arts, buddhism, camping, cardio, cars, chamber music, classical music, coffee, composers, computing, concerts, cooking, drawings, driving, etchings, exercise, fiction, films, folk music, forests, good food, graphic arts, handmade books, harpsichords, history, home, house plants, jazz, landscape gardening, lgbt rights, medicine, mountains, music, musicians, nature, networking, oil painting, opera, outdoor life, painters, photography, pianos, plays, poetry, politics, print makers, printmaking, reading, recreational drugs, rock'n'roll, sculpture, serigraphs, symphonic music, travel, typography, wildlife, woodcuts, woodworking, writing, yard work, and much else. |
| Favorite movies | 8 Mile, A Home at the End of the World, American History X, Babel, Babette's Feast, Blade Runner, Blood Diamond, Brokeback Mountain, C.R.A.Z.Y., Capote, Collateral, Cool Hand Luke, Dead Man Walking, Fight Club, Flyboys, Gods and Monsters, Good Night and Good Luck Hotel Rwanda, Kinsey, Kundun, Latter Days, Lawrence of Arabia, Lords of Dogtown, Matrix, Meet Joe Black, Memoirs of a Geisha, Motorcycle Diaries, Mystic River, Out of Africa, Pollock, Reds, The Enemy Below, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Pianist, Tomorrow, War of the Worlds |
| Favorite music | Arvo Pärt, Bela Bartok, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Carlo Gesualdo, Chester Biscardi, Claudio Monteverdi, Dmitri Shostakovich, Domenico Scarlatti, Edith Piaf, Eminem, Eric Himan, György Ligeti, J.S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, John Harbison, Johnny Lang, Joni Mitchell, Keith Jarrett, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Louis Couperin, Odetta, Ravi Shankar, Richard Strauss, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Tori Amos, W.A. Mozart, Woody Guthrie |
| Favorite books | Alan Hollinghurst, Atul Gawande, Bob Dylan, Béla Zsolt, Colm Tóibín, Daniel Barenboim, David Leavitt, Edward W. Said, Gore Vidal, Gore Vidal, Hans Erich Nossack, Hendrik Hertzberg, Hugh Howard, John Crawford, John Irving, Mark Bowden, Mark Verstegen, Mary Roach, Michael Cunningham, Nathaniel Fick, Paul Krugman, Peter Hessler, Renée Fleming, Richard Bessel, Richard McCann, Robert Boles, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Seymour M. Hersh, Sue Miller, Tom Lampert, Tony Judt, Vasiliy Grossman, Yaroslav Trofimov |