caffeinatedsophist

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Gender Male
Location United States
Introduction I'm complex, yet simple; I'm ordinary, yet strange; Love traditional cultural arts; Hate the modern, except with tech and ideas that will change humankind for the better good; Though hate change for the sake of change; Love the middle way and logic. I am currently getting my M.A. in English as a Second Language (TESL)/Linguistics at Oklahoma State University. I plan on teaching in China, Korea, &/or Japan.
Interests Religion, Languages (any, specifically Chinese & English), Asian cuisine, Literature, Poetry, Coffee, Mythology, Tea, Meeting New People
Favorite Movies Indiana Jones' Anthology, Hayao Miyazaki's films, Star Wars' Anthology, The 13th Warrior, Hellboy 2, Monty Python's Films, The Last Samurai, Pan's Labyrinth, House of Flying Dagger, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Last of the Mohicans, Avatar, How to Train Your Dragon, Despicable Me, The Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Favorite Music Yo-yo Ma, Tan Dun, Noel Quinlan, Min Xiao-Fen, Kohachiro Miyata, Shigeru Umebayashi, Lily Laskine, Kathleen Battle, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Hans Zimmer, Yiruma, Lang Lang, B.B. King, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Jay Chou, Wang Leehom, Louis Armstrong, James Taylor, Dave Matthews Band, A Fine Frezy, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, Buddy Guy, The Fray, Green Day, Imogen Heap, James Morrison, Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson, John Legend, John Mayer, O.A.R., U2, Wynton Marslis, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith, Khalil Fong
Favorite Books Confucius, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, Adeline Yen Mah, Virgil, Ovid, Homer, T.S. Eliot, Henry Wasworth, William Wordworth, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Wu Cheng'en, Geoffrey Chaucer, Grimm's Brothers, Aristotle, Plato, J.K. Rowling, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, Herman Melville, John Donne, The Bible, The Inheritance Cycle, Tuesdays with Morrie, Elmer Gantry, The Arabian Nights, Jesus in Beijing, Les Miserables, Lord Jim, Memoirs of a Geisha