Albert Melfo
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Director of Annual Giving |
| Location | Tallmadge, Ohio, United States |
| Introduction | Father, fund raiser, progressive Democrat, cook, hiker, writer, liberal, explorer, philanthropist, manager. Just one man committed to ending stupidity in our lifetime. At least his own. I don't kill spiders -- I relocate them. |
| Interests | Humans, food, travel, music, music, music, friends, family, music, philosophy, chaos theory, spirituality, music, pop culture, the Web, art, theater, film, photography, psychology, reading, writing, cooking, hiking |
| Favorite Movies | Once Upon a Time in the West, Matewan, Miller's Crossing, The Full Monty, Diva, Brazil, Repo Man, Stranger Than Paradise, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ran, Yojimbo, Ugetsu, Stranger than Fiction, Citizen Kane, Go, The English Patient, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Stranger Than Paradise, Cinema Paradiso, My Left Foot, Casablanca, The Blue Angel |
| Favorite Music | In no particular order: Wilco, Citizen Cope, Husker Du, The Pixies, Jane Siberry, Sarah McLaughlin, Tori Amos, Bruce Cockburn, Camper Van Beethoven, U2, REM, The National, Sonic Youth, Belly, Arcade Fire, Doves, Regina Spektor, Beirut, Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird, Tegan and Sara, The Breeders, Throwing Muses, Okkervil River, The Magnetic Fields, Kristen Hersh, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Pavement, 10000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, Steely Dan, Van Morrison, Michael Franti and Spearhead, OutKast, Tupac, Jay-Z, some Sade, some Dido, Cat Power, White Stripes, Morphine, Radiohead, Crash Test Dummies, Holly Cole, Shawn Colvin, Ani DiFranco, Buddha Bar samplers, Rolling Stones, The Who, Greg Brown, John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Annie Lennox, Miles Davis, Lester Brown, Dexter Gordon, Thelonius Monk, John Coltrane, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Prokofiev, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Bill Evans, Greg Brown, Emmylou Harris, Neko Case, Velvet Underground, John Cale |
| Favorite Books | In My Own Way, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Women Who Run with the Wolves, Jitterbug Perfume, Dog Soldiers, Panama, All the King's Men, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind, Les Miserables, Tao Te Ching |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
More fun.