David H. Brown
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Botanica Owner, Art Dealer, and Refugee Professor |
| Location | Ocean, New Jersey, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | About Me? Can't you tell already? Creative, spiritual, intellectual, musical, kinetic, obsessive, intense, angry, loving, rational, difficult. |
| Interests | Others, irony, conversation, art, film, photography, Vinyasa Yoga, rooting for Manny playing basketball, bicycling at 28 mph, culture, spiritual revelation, ambiguity, cooking frijoles negros and fresh fish, Jazz, resisting the negative, counterpoint, Cuba, politics, waves in the ocean, beautiful minds, respect, the snail, investigative journalism, clean hearts, a beautiful face, cirrus clouds in an azure sky, Brazil, really good bouillabaisse, trying at patience, and, ya tu sabes. |
| Favorite movies | Apocalypse Now; Days of Heaven; Babel; Pulp Fiction; The Lives of Others; Duck Soup; Central Station; Tsotsi; Hotel Rwanda; Honey for Oshun; Improper Conduct; Orfeo Negro; Divine Horsemen; Sicko; everything Chaplin; everything Almodovar, everything Robert Altman, everything Errol Morris; everything Haggis, Figgis, Hartley, Francis MacGillicuddy, etc. |
| Favorite music | Jazz, blues, gospel, caribbean, african, brazilian, medieval chants, cello concertos... |
| Favorite books | Agee and Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Hemingway, In Our Time; Thomas Ricks, Fiasco; Lydia Cabrera, El Monte; Fernando Ortiz, Los Instrumentos de la Musica Afrocubana; The Post-American World; Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War; Dirty Havana Trilogy |