Mike
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Economist Ph.D./Researcher/Risk Modeler/Nomad |
| Location | United States |
| Favorite movies | "Hannah and Her Sisters" and “Annie Hall” by Woody Allen, “Dr. Strangelove” by Stanley Kubrick, “Being There” by Hal Ashby, “Trainspotting” by Danny Boyle, “Raging Bull” by Martin Scorsese, “La Dolce Vita” by Federico Fellini, “Rashomon” by Akira Kurosawa, “Bad Santa” by Terry Zwigoff, “Capturing the Friedmans” by Andrew Jarecki, “Wild Reed” by Andre Techine, “Best in Show” by Christopher Guest, “Pulp Fiction” by Quentin Tarantino, “Breathless” by Jean-Luc Godard, “Lost in Translation” by Sophia Coppola, “Y Tu Mama Tambien” bu Anfonso Curan, “The 400 Blow” by Francois Truffaut, “Citizen Ruth” by Alexander Payne, “The Player” by Robert Altman, “Syriana” by Stephen Gaghan, "The 40 Year-old Virgin" by Judd Apataw "Clerks" by Kevin Smith, "Superbad" by Greg Mottola, "Office Space" by Mike Judge, Big Lebowski by Cohen Brothers, "Jaws" by Steven Spielberg. |
| Favorite books | Recently Read: “Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker, “Guns, Germs, and Steel” by Jarred Diamond, “Something Like an Autobiography” by Akira Kurosawa, “Middle East; A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years” by Bernard Lewis, “Limbo: Blue Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams” by Alfred Lubrano, “Freakonomics” by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner, “Perfume: Story of a Murder” by Peter Suskind, "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, “The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver” by Syd Fields, “On Directing Film” by David Mament, “Glengarry Glen Ross” by David Mament, “Life on the Ice: No One Goes to Antarctica Alone” by Roff Smith, “The House of the Spirits” by Isabel Allende, “The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self- Guided Tour” by Ruth M. Wright & Dr. Alfredo Valencia Zegarra, “The Conquest of the Incas” by John Hemming, “100 Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garci’a Ma’rquez, “Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter” by Mario Vargas Llosa , “Galapagos: A Natural History” by Michael H. Jackson, “Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web” by Tim Berners-Lee, “The Magic Lantern” by Ingmar Bergman, "Don't Tell Me The Truth About Love" by Dan Rohodes, "My Side of the Mountain - Trilogy" by Jean Craighead George, "Revolutionary Road" by Richard Yates, "Tweak" by Nic Sheff, "What a Producer Does" by Buck Houghton, "Secrets of Screenplay Structure" by Linda J. Cowgill, "The Taqwacores" by Michael Muhammad Knight, "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert, "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga, "Beautiful Boy" by David Sheff, "Party of One: The Loner's Manifesto" by Anneli Rufus, "Gone" by Michael Grant, "If I Stay", Gayle Forman,"Hate List" - Jennifer Brown, "Too Big To Fail" by Andrew Ross Sorkin, "Hunger Games", "Catching Fire", "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins; "The Statues that Walked" by Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo; "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky; "White Tiger" (again) by Aravind Adiga; |