Mark C. Squire
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer and Academic |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | A potpourri of cultural critiques, reviews and observations from an English academic & photographer setting down roots in the shifting digital sands of Silicon Valley. |
| Interests | Art History, Technology, Digital Photography, Philosophy, History (esp. Roman), Travel, Archaeology, Semiotics, Deconstructive Criticism, Writing, Films, Architecture, Quattrocento Painting, Piero Della Francesca, Caravaggio, Post-Impressionism, Anything with lots of buttons, Visiting museums & galleries, Thai Food, Good Coffee, Quality Snuff |
| Favorite Movies | Apocalypse Now, The Third Man, Ghost Dance, Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie, Cet obscur objet du désir, The Godfather, The Seventh Seal, Onibaba, Cabaret, Ringu, Lost in Translation, Dr. Strangelove, The Exorcist, The Crying Game, Harvey, Citizen Kane, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Man Who Would Be King, 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Fistful of Dollars, Frankenstein (1931), Withnail & I, Harold and Maude, The Producers (1968), The Story of the Weeping Camel, The Crying Game, Ghost Dance, Ghost Dog, A Beautiful Mind |
| Favorite Music | Gregorian Chant, Purcell, Vivaldi, Stravinsky, Mahler, Wagner, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Antony and the Johnsons, Deep Purple, The Doors, The Rolling Stones, The Beautiful South, The Pointer Sisters |
| Favorite Books | Middlemarch, Ulysses, Under the Volcano, Jude the Obscure, Anything by Conrad, Christie Malry's Own Double-entry, Molloy, Malone Dies, The Crying of Lot 49, Foucault's Pendulum, White Noise, The Corrections, Running With Scissors, Gravity's Rainbow, Ich und Du, Sein und Zeit, Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl |