Ronin
My blogs
| Interests | Buddhism, Zen, Self-improvement, Sports, Martial Arts, Weightlifting, Walking, Books, Movies, Traveling, Meditation, Zazen, Empathy, Krishnamurti, Japan, China, the philosophy of life |
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| Favorite movies | Spring Summer Fall Winter, Wings of Desire, Faraway So Close, Oldboy, 2046, Chungking Express, The Crow, Savior, Ghost Dog, 3-iron, Dead Poets Society, Dead Man, Lost in Translation, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Smoke, Chinese Box, The Shawshank Redemption, Thin Red Line, Into the Wild, The Motorcycle Diaries, and many more. |
| Favorite music | I love all sorts of music, and listen to anything from Chopin to Outkast. I do, however, lean towards the Alt. Country/Folk-Rock genres. Artists and bands such as Neil Young, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Johnny Cash, Pearl Jam, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Jeffrey Foucault, Kris Delmhorst, Mark Erelli, Calexico, Magnolia Electric Co., DBT, Steve Earle, Richard Buckner, Mark Lanegan, The Jayhawks, Okkervil River, Pleasant Grove, Ben Harper, The Everybodyfields, and so on and so forth. |
| Favorite books | Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh by Salman Rushdie, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, Zen Mind Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki |