Paleonym
My blogs
| Occupation | Other |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco Zen Center, nether |
| Introduction | "Whatever you love, is." |
| Interests | zen buddhism, nonduality, focusing, walking, dramaturgy, literalizing metaphors, squalor, lampposts, piano, djembe, fencing (sabre), non-violent communication, painting, vegetarian cooking, trauma studies, cinema, iaido, impossibility, tai chi, aikido, yoga, theory, cats |
| Favorite movies | The Thin Red Line, Solaris (both), Stalker, Winter Light, The Sweet Hereafter, Fearless (1993), The Accidental Tourist, Serenity, Vertigo, BSG: Razor, The Remains of the Day, Jacob's Ladder, Avalon, Cool Hand Luke, American Beauty, Film, Shoah, The Passion of Anna, Mother and Son, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Before Sunset, Munich, Ulysses' Gaze, The Lives of Others, Lolita, Children of Men, Under Western Eyes, Onegin, Kontrol, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Hours, Synecdoche, New York |
| Favorite music | Shostakovitch, Cat Power, Tan Dun, Philip Glass, Regina Spektor, Snatam Kaur, Thomas Newman, U2, Bear McCreary, Samuel Barber, Ute Lemper, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Antonio Pinto, Ella Fitzgerald, Maria Callas, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Peter Gabriel, Eminem, Mychael Danna, Gustavo Santaolalla, kulning, Aimee Mann, Eleni Karaindrou, Sia, Sondheim, Alexander Desplat, Ravel, Copland, Imogen Heap, Cliff Martinez, Clint Mansell, Craig Armstong |
| Favorite books | Nabokov, Freud, Dogen, Buddha, Nietzche, Fitzgerald, Salinger, Waugh, Ellison, Tanizaki, Neruda, Gaitskill, Meisner, Stanislavski, Grotowski, Artaud, Brecht, Kushner, Levin, Kundera, Joyce, Blanchot, Strindberg, Schnitzler, Zizek, Felman, Phelan, Turner, Grossman, Winterson, Cioran, Beckett, Albee, Kafka, Oz, Chekhov, Shakespeare, Derrida, Lacan, Chomsky, Lem, Suzuki, Watts, Ram Dass, Sartre, Dalai Lama, Lao Tzu, Hesse, Celan, Mann, Melville |
When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?
I'm not sure... what is the sound of two shoes dropping?