Kyle M.

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Publishing
Occupation Editor, Graphic Designer
Location Florida, United States
Introduction "Grieg" comes right after "Green Day" on my mp3 player.
Interests Literature, music theory and composition, philosophy/religion, swimming, triathlons, psychology, film, law, travel, history, mythology, piano, guitar, live performances, coffee, considerate people, being outdoors, politics, peace and quiet, rhetoric, foreign language, satire, pragmatism, autumn, Appalachians
Favorite Movies The Godfather (I and II), Amelie, anything by Kubrik or the Cohen Brothers, L.A. Confidential, Heat, Apocalypse Now, Fight Club, original three Star Wars films (not in an obsessive way), Lord of the Rings trilogy (in a slightly obsessive way), The Hunt for Red October, Rules of Attraction, Pulp Fiction
Favorite Music Classical (Shostakovich, Bartok, Vaughan Williams, Mahler, Haydn, J.S. Bach, Webern, Messiaen...just ask, as the list is quite lengthy), Radiohead, Incubus, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, The Decemberists, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Verve, Oasis, The Bats, Jarebe de Palo, U2's older stuff, et al
Favorite Books Immortality (Milan Kundera), The Metamorphoses (Ovid), Three Novels (Samuel Beckett), Style and Idea (lectures/papers/articles by Arnold Schoenberg), Letters to a Young Poet (Rilke), The Glenn Gould Reader, A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), Paradise Lost (John Milton), Faust (J.W. Goethe, trans. by Kaufman), The Right Stuff (Wolfe), La Nausee (Jean-Paul Sartre), poetry by Eliot, Pound, Rilke, Neruda, and W.C. Williams