Dave
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | ESL Teacher |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | I am 24 years old. |
| Interests | theology, poetry, MLB baseball, history, beer, vintage sci-fi, classical literature, philosophy, and music |
| Favorite movies | Rushmore, Ikuru, Modern Times, Forbidden Planet, the Ten Commandments, Wild Strawberries, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, the Good/the Bad/ and the Ugly, the Fighting 69th, the Abominable Dr. Phibes, Going My Way, the Madness of King George, Life Aquatic, Amadeus, North By Northwest, A Touch of Evil |
| Favorite music | Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Bing Crosby, the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Ben Harper, Johnny Cash, the Carter Family, woody Guthrie, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Beausoleil, Palestrina, Bach, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis, Bruckner, Modest Mussourgsky, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Ralph Stanley, Flatt and Scruggs, Bill Monroe, the Kronos Quartet, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Tallis Scholars, et al. |
| Favorite books | the Bible, the Aeneid (Virgil), Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot), the Pickwick Papers (Dickens), Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov, Letter to the Romans (Karl Barth), the Cost of Discipleship (Bonhoeffer), Freedom of a Christian (Martin Luther), Institutes of the Christian Religion (John Calvin), Birth of Tragedy (Nietzche), Odes and Epodes (Horace), the Triumph of Love (Geoffrey Hill), O Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham), the Varieties of Religious Experience (William James), I and Thou (Martin Buber), God In Search of Man (Abraham Joshua Heschel), the Pity of War (Niall Ferguson), the Passing of the Armies (Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis), the New Seeds of Contemplation (Thomas Merton) |