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| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Harwich, Massachusetts, United States |
| Interests | striped bass, surf fishing, the work of the late Mitch Hedberg, haiku, tanka, capoeira, Mongolian overtone-singing, hospice volunteer, holocaust, Eddie Izzard, Pieter-Dirk Uys, Evita Bezuidenhout, the late Jack Gartside, Lefty Kreh, Billy Pate, Stu Apte, Dan Blanton, Charles Ritz, Jack Paar, Steve Allen, Oscar Levant, Vic Chesnutt, Rod Serling, Costa-Gavras |
| Favorite movies | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Train, Fight Club, Powwow Highway, Elling, A Song for Martin, The Hidden Blade, Seven Samurai, Umberto D., Genghis Blues, The Life and Art of John Cassavetes, Night on Earth, In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders, Happy-Go-Lucky, DOGVILLE, Let the Right One In, Requiem for a Heavyweight, "High" Roller: The Bob Perry Story, 12 Angry Men, Amores Perros, Anatomy of a Murder, Antibodies, Atlantic City, Auntie Mame, Bad Day at Black Rock, The Band's Visit, Beauty and the Beast (1946), Benny and Joon, The Big Country, Bonnie and Clyde, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, The Shop on Main Street (1965), The Bridge on the River Kwai, Brokeback Mountain, Buena Vista Social Club, Bullitt, A Serious Man, Starting Out in the Evening, The Sand Pebbles, Casablanca, Cabaret, Cool Hand Luke, The Counterfeiters, Dr. Strangelove, Good Night and Good Luck, Hombre, I Have Never Forgotten You, In Cold Blood, The King of Masks, The Maltese Falcon, Mountain Patrol: Kekexili, March of the Penguins, Network, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Taxi Driver, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, 8 1/2, The Big Sleep, Clockwork Orange, The Color of Paradise, Crumb, Cop Land, The Emperor and the Assassin, Everything is Illuminated, From Here to Eternity, The Grand, Henry Fool, Lifeboat, The Last Detail, I've Loved You So Long, Midnight Express, Man on Wire, Miller's Crossing, The Official Story, The Last Picture Show, Full Metal Jacket, The Usual Suspects, The Wrestler, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Wheel of Time, Great Expectations (1946), Night and Fog, Judgment at Nuremberg, The Crying Game, Fellini: I'm a Born Liar, Doubt, All About Eve, Angels in America, Do the Right Thing, Tom Dowd and the Language of Music, Rivers and Tides, M, Cinema Paradiso, Life is Beautiful, The Seventh Seal, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Ran, Nine Queens, Il Postino, Man On the Train, The Singing Detective (1986) |
| Favorite music | Babatunde Olatunji, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Thelonious Monk, Johnny Winter, The Band, Duke Ellington, The Fugs, Ozzy Osbourne, Kinky Freidman and the Texas Jewboys, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Yerba Buena, Afrika Bambaataa, Carlos Santana, Queen, Meatloaf, Sidney Bechet, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Lester Young, Cannonball Adderley, Bata y Bembe de Matanzas, Religious Music of Palo Monte, Eric Dolphy, Vodou: Ritual Possession of the Dead, CHANGUI: Grupo Changui and Estrellas Campesinas, Tambor for Obatala, Cantos a los ORISHAS (Francisco Aguabella y sus Tambores Bata), Reba McIntyre, Gerry Mulligan, Weather Report, Divine Utterances: Katherine J. Hagedorn, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, George Shearing, Miles Davis, Howlin' Wolf, Chano Pozo, Leonard Cohen, Cyndi Lauper |
| Favorite books | "The Street of Crocodiles" Bruno Shulz, "CROW WITH NO MOUTH" IKKYU, "RASHOMON and 17 other stories" Ryunosuke Akutagawa, "THE ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF MAQROLL" Alvaro Mutis, "Bone Soup & A Lapland Wizard" Timo Koskinen, "FICCIONES" Jorge Luis Borges, "Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master", "THE ROAD" Cormac McCarthy, "Three Novels" Samuel Beckett, "GOING AFTER CACCIATO" Tim O'Brien, "The Complete Plays" Joe Orton, "NICKEL MISERIES" Ivan Gold, "NOVELS IN THREE LINES" Felix Feneon, "Salmon Fishing" Hugh Falkus, "WISE BLOOD" Flannery O'Connor, "IF NOT NOW WHEN?" PRIMO LEVI, "The Selected Poems of PO CHU-I", check out Geert Verbeke, "The Day of the Locust" Nathanael West, "SPEYCASTING A NEW TECHNIQUE" Hugh Falkus, "LYING Moral Choice in Public and Private Life" Sissela Bok, "THE WHITE PONY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE POETRY" edited by Robert Payne, "STORIES AND PLAYS" Flann O'Brien, "HIS MASTER'S VOICE" Stanislaw Lem, "HAGAKURE The Book of the Samurai" Yamamoto Tsunetomo, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" Junot Diaz, Franz Kafka, William Faulkner, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, The Stories of John Cheever, Edith Wharton, Isak Dinesen, Nabokov, Mary Shelley, Carson McCullers, Dostoevsky, Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Melville, Charlotte Bronte, "HOLOCAUST A HISTORY" Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt, Upton Sinclair, Flann O'Brien, "The Blue Mountain" Meir Shalev, "THE TEN BAMBOO STUDIO", Joseph Conrad, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, books by Robert H. Abel, Athol Fugard, John Fante, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Sherwin Wine, "Journey to the End of the Night" Louis-Ferdinand Celine |