valis
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | attorney |
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Introduction | Human being (or alien hybird), age 40, married, two children, avid reader, cynical mystic, idealistic pessimist, karaoke master, and amateur philosopher. |
| Interests | reality, unreality, the future, the past, truth, justice, ideas, my family, community, government, spirituality, progress, art, yoga, peace, figuring out how to get your kids to sleep through the night and grow up to be decent human beings |
| Favorite movies | Brazil, the Princess Bride, the Matrix (only the first one), The Fifth Element, 28 Days Later, the Incredibles, the Usual Suspects, North by Northwest, Far Away - So Close |
| Favorite music | Radiohead, Black Eyed Peas, Elvis Costello, Lyle Lovett, Patty Griffin, Crowded House, David Gray, the Police |
| Favorite books | Valis, Through a Scanner Darkly (and much other Phillip K. Dick), The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (and everything by Haruki Murakami), Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon (and most anything by Neal Stephenson, Neuromancer (and other early William Gibson), Lamb, the Brothers Karamozov, The four books of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy and other works of Douglas Adams, Catch-22, The Life of Pi, Harry Potter, the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Moby Dick, The Master and Margarita, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Jennifer Government, Straight Man (and many other things by Richard Russo) |