Daniel Lamken
My blogs
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | English philology |
| Location | Roztoky u Prahy, Czechia |
| Introduction | I am married with three children, all of whom were born in Prague. I am a native North Dakotan but grew up in Chicago. Besides teaching in midwest America and Bohemia, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkmenistan, 1993-95. Feel free to contact me at danlamken@yahoo.com |
| Interests | guitar, basketball, biking, woodworking, geography, Russian belles lettres, Slavic history & cultures |
| Favorite movies | "Crimes and Misdemeanors" by Woody Allen, "Fiddler on the Roof" by Norman Jewison, "Do the Right Thing" by Spike Lee, "Closely Observed Trains" by Jiri Menzel, "Nostalgia" by Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Favorite music | Fugues and arias of J.S. Bach, impressionism of Sergei Rachmaninov, Qawwali songs of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, modern classical compositions of Benjamin Britten, guitar improvisation of Tommy Emmanuel (and Tony Ackerman), rock inspired by the Beatles...Pink Floyd...Led Zeppelin...Radiohead |
| Favorite books | Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", Saramago's "Blindness", Woolf's "To the Lighthouse", Joyce's "The Dubliners", Roy's "The God of Small Things", Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird", Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", Auerbach's "Mimesis", Bloom's "Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human", Eagleton's "The Ideology of the Aesthetic" |