MR. COURTNEY
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | English Language Arts Teacher |
| Location | San Antonio, TX, United States |
| Interests | social re-invention, teaching, quantum physics, poetry, philosophy, music, art, traveling, educational theory, enlightenment, walking, WRITING |
| Favorite Movies | Darjeeling Limited, Simon Schama's "The Power of Art", Slumdog Millionaire, Bleach, The Dark Knight, Persona, 25th Hour, Inland Empire, Pi, BABEL, Alice's Restraunt, Motorcycle Diaries, Other Peoples Money, The Lion King, Aladdin, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Broken Flowers, The Elegant Universe, Notes From Underground, Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, No Direction Home, Amelie, Manhattan, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Dazed and Confused, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Crash, Dead Poet's Society, Blade Runner, Cruel Intentions, Brain Candy, Groundhog Day, The Life Aquatic, Lost in Translation, Dark Side of the Heart (El Lado Obscuro del Corazon), What the Bleep do We Know?, Ma Vie en Rose, Where the Buffalo Roam |
| Favorite Music | aaron copeland, andrew bird, animal collective, arcade fire, anathallo, a hawk and a hacksaw, african percussion, all smiles, best coast, blue scholars, battles, beach fossils, bobby dylan, beck, belle and sebastian, beirut, beethoven, bright eyes, biggie smalls, blowing trees, buffalo moon, clues, caribou, chad vangaalen, cafe tacuba, cartographers, calexico, cfcf, cults, cursive, conor oberst, deradoorian, DOOM, deerhunter, delinquent habits, department of eagles, desaparecidos, death cab for cutie, dead can dance, floating action, fiona apple, fleet foxes, foreign born, girl talk, grizzly bear, george gershwin, gauntlet hair, grandaddy, gang gang dance, here we go magic, harlem shakes, inlets, immortal technique, iron and wine, jerry jeff walker, johnny cash, kanye west, leonard cohen, led zeppelin, liam finn, man man, maria taylor, my morning jacket, mozart, mos def, MGMT, marcus rubio and the gospel choir of pillows, neon indian, nirvana, nico muhly, nine inch nails, okkervil river, outkast, of montreal, olivia tremor control, psapp, pill wonder, pink floyd, pearl jam, placebo, phoenix, pavement, pisces, radiohead, real estate, rilo kiley, rage against the machine, st. vincent, stereolab, sufjan stevens, sean lennon, spoon, stravinsky, 2pac, thee oh sees, THE DECEMBERISTS, the morning benders, the raconteurs, the yeah yeah yeahs, the mars volta, toro y moi, tool, the bowerbirds, the cave singers, the postal service, talib kweli, the dodos, the flaming lips, tortoise, the dead weather, the beatles, the dresden dolls, the roots, the doors, the white stripes, the album leaf, white elefant, wu-tang clan, wilco, willie nelson, white denim, yo la tengo, yeasayer |
| Favorite Books | AYN RAND: the fountainhead -JOHN ASHBERY: self portrait in a convex mirror - BUKOWSKI: slouching towards nirvana, last night of earth poems - BULGOKOV: the master and margarita - HEIDEGGER: poetry, language and thought - NIETZSCHE: thus spoke zarathustra, the antichrist, ecce homo - SALMAN RUSHDIE: midnight's children, the satanic verses - HORACIO QUIROGA: the headless chicken and other stories - the gospel of thomas - DANIEL PINCHBECK: 2012: the return of quetzalcoatl - KALLE LASN: culture jam - LAO TZU: dao de jing - KUNDERA: life is elsewhere, immortality, the book of laughter and forgetting, the unbearable lightness of being - OCTAVIO PAZ: sun stone, labyrinth of solitude -KEROUAC: on the road, big sur, orpheus emerged, desolation angels - BURROUGHS: queer, ghost of chance, cities of the red night, the western lands - GARCIA MARQUEZ: one hundred years of solitude, love in the time of cholera, chronicle of a death foretold, autumn of the patriarch - SARTRE: nausea, being and nothingness - CAMUS: the plague, the stranger, exile and the kingdom, the myth of sisyphus - GINSBERG: collected poetry, death and fame - PLATH: ariel - NERUDA: canto general, 20 love poems - AMIT GOSWAMI: the self-aware universe, physics of the soul - URSULA K LEGUIN: earthsea series (especially tehanu and tales from earthsea) - KHALIL GIBRAN: the prophet - FRITJTOV CAPRA: the tao of physics - DOSTOEYEVSKY: the brothers karamazov, crime and punishment, notes from underground - KAFKA: the trial - HESSE: narcissus and goldmund, steppenwolf, siddhartha |