Crawdad
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Vice consul |
| Location | New Delhi, India |
| Introduction | From Alizarin: "Most people now know him for his immortal baritone solo in "Naan, the Musical," but I first met Charles under very different circumstances, when he was the first white man to infiltrate the harems of Ottoman Istanbul. He did this through a daring combination of fluent Arabic, nerves of steel, and a surprisingly misleading silk two-piece. Opening the wrong door in the wrong palace, I was ten seconds away from causing an international incident when he approached me, silently took my hand, and led me to a saferoom he called "The Oubliette." Four bottles of Glenlivet later, we were fast friends. Since then, we have mapped the Nile, summited Kilimanjaro, and dove in Barbados for Blackbeard's treasure. He's the man you want piloting your charter vessel; he can tell you if that painting is really a Rembrandt, he can argue your case at the Old Bailey, and he can fend off flesh-eating monkeys while you get the engine started." |
| Interests | Ultimate frisbee, sumo wrestling (watching not doing), resource-based politics, Bollywood movies, burning man, And if I had time - rock climbing and scuba diving. |
| Favorite movies | Brazil, Naked Lunch, Godfather I + II, Raging Bull, Unbelievable Truth, Down by Law, Dead Man, Cinema Paradiso, Lawrence of Arabia, Dead Man, The World of Apu, Nights of Cabiria |
| Favorite music | Yo La Tengo, Elliott Smith, the Shins, Mouse on Mars, Interpol, My Bloody Valentine, Fugazi, Tosca Tango Orchestra, Sonic Youth, Billy Bragg, Belle and Sebastian, Guided by Voices, Iron and Wine, Arcade Fire, Tortoise, Swayzak, Metamatics, Gotan Project, Manu Chao. |
| Favorite books | Crying of Lot 49, 1984, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Geek Love, A Peace to End All Peace, The Sea The Sea, Blindness, Man's Search for Meaning |