Rolfo
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Introduction | My last name Straubhaar means "hair that stands on end", like when a dog or wolf's hair pricks up. So I sometimes look at my head and feel a bit disappointed. |
| Interests | Sustainable grassroots development projects, raiding used CD/vinyl shops |
| Favorite movies | Amandla!, Promises, Crash, Cool Hand Luke, Benny and Joon, How's Your News?, Hotel Rwanda, How to Steal a Million, What's Up Doc?, The Philadelphia Story, Father Goose, In the Heat of the Night, Good Will Hunting, all the Muppet movies (except Christmas Carol and Treasure Island), Mr. T's Be Somebody...Or Be Somebody's Foo', Free to Be You and Me, Really Rosie, Time Bandits, Ghostbusters, Rain Man, Rabbit Proof Fence, Whale Rider, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Sneakers, Real Genius, Truman Show |
| Favorite music | Ben Harper, SHAKE YOUR PEACE!, Indigo Girls, Vusi Mahlasela, Oliver Mtukudzi, Cee-Lo, sweet South African dance tunes I "borrowed" from my DJ buddy Carlos, Revelação, Tribalistas, Dave Matthews, Dispatch, John Butler Trio, Guster, Phish, Cat Stevens, the Band, Van Morrison, the Dead, Bob Marley, Tracy Chapman, James Taylor, Rusted Root, Tribe Called Quest, Jurassic 5, Fugees, Marcelo D2, India Arie, Caetano and Gil, Patty Griffin, Lauryn Hill, old Pearl Jam, early delta blues, old school funk and soul, State Radio, Janis Joplin w/ Big Brother and the Holding Company, Toni Price, SRV and Double Trouble, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Cliff, the Jayhawks, the Black Crowes, Wally Pleasant, Ozomatli, Galactic, Angélique Kidjo, Legião Urbana |
| Favorite books | The Gospel of Matthew, Approaching Zion by Hugh Nibley, Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis, all the Narnia books (especially The Horse and His Boy), 2 Nephi, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, collected poems of Langston Hughes, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, Matilda by Roald Dahl, In the Night Kitchen, The Lorax, Drumming at the Edge of Magic by Mickey Hart, My Left Foot by Christy Brown |