Brian Engel
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Location | Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Introduction | Itinerant, often idealistic, aspiring intellectual. News junkie, proud liberal, experience-seeker. Alumnus of: Carnegie Mellon (Engineering B.S., 1994), Teach For America (Los Angeles, 1994-96), Peace Corps (Papua New Guinea, 1997-98) and Queen's University Belfast (Chemistry Ph.D., 2008). |
| Interests | Travel, politics, NPR, NY Times, Washington Post, films, books, science, Pugwash, foreign food, sports, The Daily Show, environment, peace, art museums, comparative religions, foreign languages, Slate.com, PostSecret.com, |
| Favorite movies | After the Wedding, All the President's Men, Babel, Before Sunrise, Born into Brothels, Bowling for Columbine, Bull Durham, Cache, Capturing the Friedmans, Crash, Dr. Strangelove, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Etre Et Avoir, Fahrenheit 9/11, A Few Good Men, Field of Dreams, A Fish Called Wanda, The Fog of War, The Full Monty, Gandhi, Good Will Hunting, Goodfellas, The Graduate, The Holy Grail, Hoop Dreams, An Inconvenient Truth, Inside Man, To Kill a Mockingbird, Life of Brian, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, The Machinist, Mar Adentro, Memento, Mi Familia, The Natural, Oceans 11, Once, Presumed Innocent, Primal Fear, The Princess Bride, Pulp Fiction, Rain Man, Schindler's List, Shawshank Redemption, Sideways, Silence of the Lambs, Speechless, Spellbound, Stand and Deliver, The Thomas Crown Affair, Tootsie, The Truman Show, The Usual Suspects, V for Vendetta, |
| Favorite music | Beatles, Marc Cohn, Cold Play, Sheryl Crow, CSN, Eagles, Gipsy Kings, Juan Luis Guerra, Norah Jones, Natalie Merchant, REM, Damien Rice, Paul Simon, Sting, KT Tunstall, U2, Van Morrison, Neil Young |
| Favorite books | Short History of Nearly Everything, Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, The Chosen, Grapes of Wrath, Angela's Ashes, Fast Food Nation, Guns Germs & Steel, Autobiography of Malcolm X, Gandhi, Boys of Summer, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynmann, Better Off, What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Welcome to the Monkeyhouse, Getting to Yes, |