Mike Duran

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Novelist
Location SoCal, United States
Introduction Firstborn. Introvert. Sanguine streak. Late bloomer. Bird feeder. Dog lover. Meat eater. Beer drinker. Book reader. Film watcher. Music listener. Sports fan. Yankee hater. Art junkie. Amateur chef. Armchair philosopher. Aspiring cryptozoologist. Gardener. Science wonk. Right-winger. Socially conservative. Christian.
Interests Interested in where we came from, why we're here, and where we're going.
Favorite Movies Magnolia, The Elephant Man, Taxi Driver, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Corpse Bride, Unforgiven, Adaptation, O Brother Where Art Thou, The New World, The Lord of Rings Trilogy, Paranoid Park, Annie Hall, Donnie Darko, No Country for Old Men
Favorite Music Andrew Bird, Project 86, Sufjan Stevens, Coldplay, Miles Davis, Bruce Cockburn, The Flaming Lips, Jamie Cullum, Vivaldi, mewithoutYou, U2, Van Morrison, Radiohead, Decemberists, Beck, David Crowder, Juliana Theory, Future of Forestry, Sara Groves, Son Lux, John Coltrane, Switchfoot
Favorite Books The Book of the Dun Cow, The Road, Godric, Short Stories of Flannery O'Connor, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Demon: A Memoir, Orthodoxy by Chesterton, Odd Thomas series, Undaunted Courage, Beyond the Cosmos, The Man Who was Thursday, Watership Down, Horton Hears a Who, Perelandra, Till We Have Faces, Watchmen, Peace Like a River, Foucault's Pendulum, The Name of the Wind