Giovannino
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Location | Claremont, mais oui, Sunny So Cal, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a belle lettrist and lover of art and beauty in any of its numerous incarnations. My formal background is in literature and linguistcs. I am a devotee of scientific inquiry in the realms of language, perception, and cognition as well. |
| Interests | opera, classical music, linguistics, literature, gay stuff, beautiful men, RuPaul's drag race queens |
| Favorite Movies | three brothers, pan's labyrinth, the lady with a dog, time to leave, la dolce vita, a streetcar named desire, dangerous liaisons, the dead, black sunday, blood and black lace, to name a few.... |
| Favorite Music | jazz, sarah vaughan, ella fitzgerald, john coltrane, miles davis, marcin wicinzski trio, opera, ghena dimitrova, dame janet baker, teresa berganza, classical, hector berlioz, maurice ravel, claude debussy |
| Favorite Books | Moby Dick, A la Recherche du Temps Perdu, The Bostonians, The Wings of the Dove, Words and Rules, The Blank Slate, 5001 Nights at the Movies, For Keeps, Sexual Personae, Vamps & Tramps, Sex, Art, & American Culture, poetry of Coleridge, Keats, Shakespeare, Milton, the fiction and criticism of Virginia Woolf, Thomas Ruskin, Walter Pater, Pauline Kael, Camille Paglia (hey, I have to spice up such august company) |
How can art most improve the quality of our lives?