Professor Bost
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| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Assistant Professor (PT) |
| Location | San Marcos, TX, United States |
| Interests | writing and teaching writing; making up stories; reading; arguing about important things; slight-of-hand and misdirection; civil liberties; movies movies movies; building monster models; the San Antonio Spurs. |
| Favorite movies | The following list should not be construed as an all-time best list. They're simply 20 or so movies that I love: Sherlock, Jr.; Sunrise; King Kong; Duck Soup; The Back Cat; Gold Diggers of 1933; Boudu Saved from Drowning; L'Atalante; A Dream Walking (a Popeye short); Top Hat; Bride of Frankenstein; My Man Godfrey; Fury; The Awful Truth; Easy Living; Porky in Wackyland; Story of the Last Chrysanthemum; Only Angels Have Wings; The Philadelphia Story; Pinocchio; The Shop Around the Corner; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Gang's All Here; To Have and Have Not; The Miracle of Morgan's Creek; Notorious; Adam's Rib; Ikiru; Ugetsu Monogatari; Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century; Kiss Me Deadly; Ordet; The Band Wagon; Night of the Hunter; Man of the West; The Tall T; Rio Bravo; Peeping Tom; Hard Days Night; Spirit of the Beehive; Chinatown; Toy Story 2; and Election. All-time favorite TV shows: The Ernie Kovacs Show; Freaks and Geeks; Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; The Wire; Pee Wee's Playhouse. |
| Favorite music | Thirty or so representative artists in alphabetical order: Chet Atkins, The Band, Chuck Berry, Solomon Burke, The Buzzcocks, De La Soul, Bo Diddley, Merle Haggard, Bob Dylan, Lefty Frizzell, Gang of Four, Ghostface Killah, Al Green, Howlin' Wolf, George Jones, The Kinks, MC5, Minutemen, Charles Mingus, Roy Orbinson, Ann Peebles, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Public Enemy, Max Roach, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Roxy Music, Charlie Rich, The Soft Boys, The Soul Stirrers, Sly and the Family Stone, Bessie Smith, The Stooges, George Strait, Television, Sonny Terry, Little Walter, The Who, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and ? and the Mysterians. |
| Favorite books | Again, this list is simply a sampling of my tastes. I've limited the list to 20th century writers. Fiction: John Banville, L. Frank Baum, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Ramsey Campbell, John Cheever, James Crumley, Samuel Delany, John Dos Passos, Deborah Eisenberg, Harlan Ellison, Percival Everett, Graham Greene, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, Thomas Ligotti, Jonathan Lethem, Alice Munro, Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Clark Ashton Smith, Nathanael West, and Cornell Woolrich. Poetry: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creeley, James Dickey, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith, Wislawa Szymborska, Wallace Stevens, Yeats, and Kevin Young. Other folks: Roland Barthes, Andre Bazin, Stanley Cavell, George Herriman, Pauline Kael, Harvey Kurtzman, Susan Sontag, E.C. Segar. |