Chrisbeckus
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | In my mid-fifties and feeling pretty desperate. Have I reached the end of the line? |
| Interests | Classical Music, Pop Music, Jazz, Movies, History, Science, Philosophy, Religions Of The World, Intelligent Design, Debate About End Of Life Issues and Abortion Marijuana (do you have any? otherwise I am very anti-drugs and I am a reformed alcoholic), James Joyce, James Stephens. |
| Favorite Movies | Wings, Casablanca, The Quiet Man, Its A Wonderful Life, The Informer, Top Hat, The Strawberry Blonde, Psycho, Dracula (original with Christopher Lee), Spartacus, Citizen Kane, Singing In The Rain, Our Man In Havanna, David Copperfield, Amadeus, Goldfinger, Paths Of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, Goodfellas, Aliens 1&2, Planet Of The Apes (original version), Jaws, Empire Of The Sun, AI, Tootsie, Crash, Umberto D, La Strada, The Leopard, Eight And A Half, Orpheus In Underworld (Cocteau), Children Of Paradise, Rules Of The Game, Das Boot. |
| Favorite Music | Classical Music: Mozart (particularly his Operas), Beethoven (particularly his Symphonies, sonatas andfifth piano concerto), Verdi, Puccini, Elgar, Dvorck, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Vivaldi, Samuel Barbar and I go on. Jazz: Jellyroll Morton, Fats Weller, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis |
| Favorite Books | Old and New Testaments of Bible, Herodatus, Thucydides History Of Pelopennesian War, Plato (anything), Plutarch's Lives, Tacitus Annals, Josephus Jewish Antiquities, St. Augustine's Confessions, The Prince, Don Quixote, Memoirs Of Casanova, Wealth Of Nations, Reflections Of French Revolution, On Liberty, David Copperfield, War And Peace, Crime And Punishment, Origin Of Species, Ulysses, Dubliners, Pot Of Gold, Collected Poems Of Yeats, Mayor of Casterbridge, 1984, Huckleberry Finn, Decline And Fall, Brideshead Revisited. |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
Who said about a popular restaurant that it was so crowded all the time that no body went there anymore?