Pasadena Tony

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Gender Male
Industry Advertising
Occupation Creative Chief
Location Pasadena, California, United States
Interests Road Biking, Creative Writing, Scuba Diving, Travel, Photography, Advertising, Marketing, Science: quantum physics, Astrophysics, dark matter & energy (but I repeat myself), time/space events, etc., Jazz, Samba, Rock, classical, bluegrass, hip hop... okay music, & art, Architecture, movies that move me.
Favorite Movies Cocteau, Renoir, Goddard and Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Bergman, Richard Attenborough, Trevor Nunn, Tony Scott, Richard Lester, Akira Kurosawa, Coppola, Spielberg, Lynch (with exceptions), Robert Altman, the Coen brothers (without exception), Abrahams & Zucker and Ron Howard. There's more
Favorite Music Ella, Blink, A. R. Rahman, Lady Day, Coltrane, Miles, Brubeck, Mozart, The Beatles, Gilbert and Sullivan, Prokofiev, Elvis Costello and Diana Krall, Ottmar Leibert, the whole Gilberto family, Stan Getz, Tupac, Beethoven
Favorite Books Lord of the Rings (all four books of the trilogy), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all five books of the trilogy), Every book by or about Richard Feynman (usually twice so I could "get it" once), Steven Hawking (ditto, ditto), The obligatory Shakespeare, Steinbeck, Dostoyevsky, Hemmingway, John Dos Passos, Arthur Miller, Kurt Vonnegut, Langston Hughes, Key Kesey (and his foils Tom Wolfe and Truman Capote), all the Camus-lions (Sartre, Beckett, etc.), All those lively ancient Greeks (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes