James
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Erstwhile Librarian |
| Location | Ellensburg, WA, United States |
| Introduction | About Me: I was: • Raised as a Nihilist, now a Former Episcopalian. I Love: • Our Cats; My Wife; Our Friends; Our Life. (In that order.) I Like: • All kinds of Music: Medieval, Renaissance & Baroque, Hard Rock, Trip Hop, World Music, Folk Music of the World, and vast innumerable genres. • Weird (and Non-Weird) Movies (mostly weird). • Gurdjieff, Zen. • Libraries: Literacy, open access to government information, intellectual freedom, other (secret) subversive librarian stuff. • Politics, peace, justice, all-around general subversiveness. • Words, English, linguistics, grammar. • Science: Armchair math and physics as metaphysical metaphor. • Taking Long Walks on the (frozen, foggy, misty) Beach (Aimée and I did it once, and we both really liked it). • Stuff. Things. Objects. Ideas. • Lots of Other Things I can't think of right now.... |
| Interests | Photography, Music, Movies, Philosophy, Religion, Mysticism, Meditation, Fourth Way, Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Zen, Nihilism, Atheism, Anglicanism, Episcopalianism, Libraries, Librarians, Librarianship, Literacy, Politics, Activism, Advocacy, Freedom of Information, Free Access to Government Information, Open Government, Intellectual Freedom, Anarchy, Anarchism, Infoanarchy |
| Favorite movies | The Godfather, Goodfellas, Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, The Devil's Advocate, Angel Heart, (anything in the whole Devil Movie genre), Twelve Monkeys, Nosferatu, Groundhog Day, Ghost Busters, Repo Man, Threads |
| Favorite music | Perotin, Machaut, Dufay, Binchois, Elizabethan, Bach, Telemann, Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Joseph Schwantner, Gregorian Chant, Traditional Music, Folk Music, Middle Eastern Music, World Music, Alice in Chains, Nirvana, Hank Dogs, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Romanian, Russian Orthodox, Classical Indian, Classic Rock |
| Favorite books | The Fourth Way, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, Leaves of Grass |
If there's no I in team, why is there meat?
Dear Google: "Random Question" is a stupid feature. Please turn it off. Sincerely Yours, James