weezardofoz
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Marketing |
| Occupation | Marketing/PR strategist |
| Location | Dumont, New Jersey, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Just your garden variety, middle aged, happy-go-lucky professional looking for ways to live life to the fullest - with all the ups and downs, roundabouts and scoutabouts - while making friends and doing good along the way. |
| Interests | Far too many to list in this limited space, but the roster, just to put you to snooze, leads off with family & friends, good food & good cheer, lifelong learning and continuing education, self-improvement, neuroscience (especially neuroplasticity), politics & economics, socio-demographic and behavioral sciences, law and the judiciary, government and public policy, lobbying & advocacy, marketing (especially cause-related programs & initiatives), writing & blogging, coaching & mentoring, volunteerism & philanthropy, astrophysics & space exploration, nanotechnology, computers & IT, virtual social networking (Web 2.0 and causal Internet-related phenomena), and - well ... you get the general picture. Hey! You still awake, or what? -:) |
| Favorite movies | It's a Wonderful Life; Green Card; 2001: A Space Odyssey; The Birds; Green Card; A Clockwork Orange; Bullit; Citizen Kane; Terms f Endearment; An Officer and a Gentleman; The Da Vinci Code; Lost in Translation; The Great Escape; Equilibrium; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; A Bridge Too Far; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; The Deerhunter; Zorro; Platoon; GI Jane; Pride and Prejudice; Forrest Gump; Giant; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; The Gladiator; Braveheart; Shakespeare in Love; The Terminal; Meet the Fokkers; Fargo; James Bond: Agent 007 (with Sean Connery); The Hunt for Red October; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Confessions of a Geisha; Sex, Lies & Videotape; Jerry Maguire; Rainman; Midnight Cowboy; Deliverance; The Pianist; Schindler's List; Fiddler on the Roof; Beyond Redemption; The Bourne Identity; Grease; True Lies; Saturday Night Fever; Fast Times at Ridgemont High; Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion; Kindergarten Cop; The Terminator (trilgy); The Matrix (unloaded, reloaded and emptied); Armageddon; Dragonfly; Enter the Dragon; Ghandi; Shaka Zulu (tv miniseries); Roots (tv miniseries); The Prestige; Face: Off; Chinatown; Vertigo; The Shining; The Perfect Storm; Psycho; American Beauty; Dirty Harry; Thelma and Louise; Driving Miss Daisy; National Treasure; True Grit; Raiders of the Lost Ark; The Poseidon Adventure; Fantastic Voyage; Alien (all in series); High Noon; Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Bonnie and Clyde; The Wizard of Oz; The Exorcist; The Stepford Wives; Walking Tall; Dances with Wolves; Twins; L.A. Confidential; Lord of the Rings (trilogy); Ben Hur; The Ten Commandments; and zillions more... |
| Favorite music | Hard rock, light rock, classic rock, pet rock, pop rock, Chris Rock, rock & roll, country-rock, rock-a-billy, alternative, progressive, metal (i.e., Black Sabbath), blues, country, world, Celtic (e.g., Celtic Storm), classical, opera, instrumental, jazz, Creole, and pretty much anything else EXCEPT hip hop, gangsta, rap, and any other pathetically degenerative, violence/abuse/mysoginy promoting "art forms"... |
| Favorite books | Bibliophiles like myself can't even find room enough on the bookshelf for the latest buy at Border's, so never mind tempt me at trying to squeeze in here all the titles I'd love to list this tiny space. To give some idea of my reading priorities, preferences and interests - as well as specific subject and topical range, scope and depth - here's a sample smattering of but a few favorites: Collected Works of William Shakespeare; Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Atlas Shrugged; The Divine Comedy; The Prince; The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings; The Song of Roland; Das Kapital; The Good Soldier Svejk; Micromegas; Gulliver's Travels; Worlds in Collision; Ages in Chaos; The Old Man and the Sea; Animal Farm; The Road to Wigan Pier; Anna Karenina; The Canterbury Tales; The Great Gatsby; The Analects (Confucius); A Tale of Two Cities; Rifleman Dodd; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Origins of Totalitarianism; Darkness at Noon; The Gulag Archipelago; Moby Dick; Great Expectations; The Count of Monte Cristo; Exodus; The Return of the Native; How to Win Friends and Influence People; all works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Chinua Achebe; A Farewell to Arms; The Ilyad; Aesop's Fables; All Quiet on the Western Front; the works of Vilfredo Pareto; A History of Socialism by G.D.H. Cole; all works of Mark Twain; Ivanhoe; The Red Badge of Courage; and so many more... |
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
At the nearest Home Depot, of course ... to buy a shovel and some heavy-duty, digging duty work gloves!