Peccator

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About me

Gender Male
Location California, United States
Introduction By the grace of God I am a man and a Christian; by action a great sinner; by state a layman, with a little learning in French letters, film, theology; sometimes fixed, sometimes roving from place to place (cf. The Way of a Pilgrim).
Interests Catholic Church, Tradition, Cinema, Art, Literature, Cooking, Dinner Parties, Tea, Italy, Japan, California
Favorite Movies Sunrise, The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Casablanca, Shadow of a Doubt, Brief Encounter, Out of the Past, Late Spring, Le Journal d'un curé de campagne, Ugetsu, Shane, Vertigo, L'avventura, Il gattopardo, Andrei Rublev, Cries and Whispers, Ludwig, Babette's Feast, Twin Peaks (series), In the Mood for Love, Mulholland Drive, Still Walking
Favorite Music Palestrina, Tallis, Mozart, Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Puccini, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, R. Strauss, Arvo Pärt, Shirley Horn, Leonard Cohen, Emmylou Harris, Julee Cruise, Daniel Lanois, Björk, Sigur Rós, The Album Leaf
Favorite Books Missale Romanum (usus antiquior), The Holy Bible, Phaedrus, Symposium, Confessions (St Augustine), Oku no hosomichi, Lettres Provinciales, Pensées (Pascal), Twice-Told Tales, Wuthering Heights, "The Altar of the Dead", "Tonio Kröger", A la recherche du temps perdu, A Lost Lady, The Great Gatsby, A Handful of Dust, Out of Africa, Brideshead Revisited, The Mind and Heart of Love, The Glory of the Lord, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy