Togenberg

About me

Gender Male
Industry Technology
Location MInneapolis, MN, United States
Interests kids, dogs, connecting heart & mind, left- with right-brain, science with humanities, you get the idea; the history of Europe, the Middle East, racism and anti-Semitism; kids; old books, photos and postcards; pale ale, good coffee and wine; German, French, Swedish, Danish; theater and voice stuff; human development; emotion theory and language acquisition
Favorite Movies Love Actually, Best in Show, Untergang, Run Lola Run, Being John Malkovich, Dr. Strangelove, Good Will Hunting, M, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Brasil, Star Wars, Strictly Ballroom, Blade Runner, Sleeper, Aguirre, The Godfather and The Lord Of The Rings trilogies, Pan's Labrynth, The Matrix, Once, Sweetland, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Garden State, A Bridge Too Far
Favorite Music Yael Naim, Peter Gabriel, REM, Beethoven, Moby, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Coldplay, U2, Radiohead, Tori Amos, Chopin, Ani Difranco, Brahms, Feist, Bach, Ingrid Michaelson, Neko Case, Led Zeppelin, alt country, folk music, a good bit of bluegrass, Sting, Ray Lamontagne
Favorite Books Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Life of Pi, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Ender's Game, Dune, the Psalms, The Poisonwood Bible, Eichman in Jerusalem, The Weimar Republic (Detlev Peukert), The Handmaiden's Tale; and anything and everything by George Orwell, Richard Scarry, Gary Wills, Steinbeck, Kathleen Norris, Voltaire, Mary Karr, Christopher Browning, Elie Wiesel, Ian Kershaw, Primo Levi, Alan Furst, Dr. Seuss, Kurt Vonnegut and Frederick Buechner