Bill
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | .NET Developer |
| Location | Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | as the line in the movie "Barfly" goes ... (Tully) "Excuse me, who are you?" (Henry) "Hmm, the eternal question..." "The eternal answer: I don't know"." |
| Interests | Music, Reading, Movies, Art, Poetry, Yoga, Philosophy, Classical Music, Jazz, Guitar |
| Favorite Movies | A Hard Day's Night, Barfly, A Man and A Woman, In The Realm of the Senses, Monterey Pop, Paris, je t'aime, Born Into This, Office Space, Man Push Cart, High Fidelity, Desperate Living, Rear Window, Laura, Double Indemnity, To Catch A Thief, Diva, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, Underground, Grindhouse, Waiting For Godot, Away From Her, Ghost World, Next Stop Wonderland, Body Heat, .... many more. |
| Favorite Music | Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Vandermark 5, Anouar Brahem, John Adams, Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Ravi Shankar, Drew Gress, Glenn Gould, The Beatles, Grateful Dead (circa 1967-1972), Gustav Mahler, J.S. Bach, Morton Feldman (especially the 2nd String Quartet -- are you up for it???), Elliott Carter, Charles Ives, Toru Takemitsu, Bill Frisell, John Scofield, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Paul Buttterfield, Tomasz Stanko, (and just about everyone else on the ECM label) ... the list is long, very long, very very long. And yes, I have been called a musical snob by more than a few people but I prefer to think of myself as musically passionate (to the extreme). |
| Favorite Books | Pablo Neruda, Charles Bukowski, Hermann Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Samuel Beckett, Ken Wilber. Most recently "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins, "The Year of Fog" by Michelle Richmond, "Big Sky Mind: Buddhism and the Beat Generation" by Carole Tomkinson, "Seeing Rothko" by Glenn Phillips and Thomas Crow, "Damned to Fame : The Life of Samuel Beckett" by James Knowlson, and "The Music of Joni Mitchell" by Lloyd Whitesell. Currently reading "100 Love Sonnets" by Pablo Neruda. |