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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Architecture
Occupation	not busy
Location	Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Introduction	what about me?
Interests	the list would be too long to fit here; I better tell what is not in my list of interests: -questions -blogs -adults drinking with a straw -adults going on monopeds -people eating pasta with a cup of coffee -talk radio -TV -inanimate objects because they usually attack their users -tourists -journalists pretending to write literature -publicity -the word "gourmet" -the Hummer (and their owners) -sports -microsoft and all its products, whether hard- or soft-ware -Calatrava's work -Joaquín Rodrigo's music -people who use their cell phone while dining with others, especially when dining with a woman, if a man, or dining with a man, if a woman ....this list is quite incomplete and it should be expanded but, I'll leave it as is. Also, it should be both in English and in Spanish but, I'll leave it as is. Let those who read this learn English!
Favorite movies	this would also be quite a long list but in no particular order of preference the films of: Fassbinder, Jarmusch, Clouzot, Kubrick, Bertolucci, Duras, Krzysztof Zanussi, Kurosawa, Margarethe von Trotta, Jacques Rivette, Wajda, Antonioni, Lina Wertmüller, Nicolas Roeg, Einsenstein, Carné, Fellini, Malle, Rossellini, Dassin, John Cassavetes, Polanski, Schlöndorff, Berlanga, Tavernier, René Clair, Kieślowski, Werner Herzog, Pasolini, Buñuel, Nicholas Ray, De Sica, Lumet, Clint Eastwood, Bergman, most of Hitchcock's, early Spielberg's, little of Almodóvar's, some of Altman's, some of Dario Argento's, some of F. F. Coppola's, some of Forman's, some of etc., etc.
Favorite music	another very long list which includes in no particular order of preference the works of: Schumann, Schubert, Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, de Falla, Stravinsky, Bartók, Debussy, Ravel, Prokofiev, Satie, Honegger, Bach (both J. S. and C. P.E.), Alban Berg, Shostakovich, Busoni, Mendelssohn, Schœnberg, Kodály, Paul Hindemith, Brahms, Haydn, Chopin, Elgar, Eisler, Fauré, Scriabin, Enescu, some of Grieg's, , some of Shchedrin's, some of Sibelius's, some of Tchaikovsky's, some of etc's., etc's. it is imperative that I include the following performers in this category: Paul Jacobs, Sviatoslav Richter, Mitsuko Uchida, Evgeny Kissin, Fritz Kreisler, Daniel Barenboim, Arturo-Benedetti Michelangeli, Alfred Cortot, Pau Casals, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Ax, Murray Perahia, Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Horowitz, Martha Argerich, Gidon Kremer, Angela Hewitt, and a lot of etceteras...
Favorite books	yet another very long list which includes in no particular order of preference the works of: Bioy Casares, Borges, Cortázar, Paul Bowles, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Somerset Maugham, Javier Marías, Vargas Llosa, Pavese, Alejo Carpentier, Italo Calvino, Döblin, Cabrera Infante, Mishima, Kafka, Gombrowicz, Dickson Carr, Blasco Ibáñez, Camilo José Cela, Juan Goytisolo, Pushkin, Eduardo Galeano, D. H. Lawrence, W. Burroughs, Naguib Mahfouz, Juan Carlos Onetti, Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Iris Murdoch, Saramago, Bruno Schulz, Josephine Hart, Jean Cocteau, Ivan Goncharov, Le Carré, Bernhard Schlink, William Styron, Patricia Highsmith, Priestley, Tennessee Williams, Conrad, W. G. Sebald, Patrick McGrath, Tabucchi, Aldous Huxley, Orhan Pamuk, Simenon, Proust, Jane Bowles, Mailer, Updike, Agota Kristof (thanks to Fernando), Nabokov, Cervantes, Thomas Bernhard, Moravia, Zweig (both Arnold and Stefan), Eco, Henry Miller, Evelyn Waugh, Heinrich Böll, Carson McCullers, Joyce Carol Oates, Salinger, Woolrich, Sándor Marái, Maurois, Julian Barnes, Capote, Imre Kertész, Eduardo Mendoza, Patrick McGrath, Salman Rushdie, Dürrenmat, Samuel Beckett, Ionescu, Camus, Dos Passos, Joyce's Ulyses and Dubliners, some of Murakami's, some of Céline's, dome of T. S. Eliot's, some of Günther Grass's, some of Bashevis Singer's, some of Angela Carter's, some of Philip Roth's, some of Hemingway's, some of Sontag's, some of Gore Vidal's, some of etc's., etc's