Brianfit
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Online Activist |
| Location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Introduction | I grew up in the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York. I've Lived in Rome, Paris, UK, and an olive farm in Italy. Currently in Amsterdam. I delayed a nuclear test detonation in the Nevada desert for four days in 1983 when I was 25, by hiking in to ground zero and hiding out. Federal trespass. I've been a part of campaigns that have taken on major corporations and a few governments and forced them to back off from crimes against the planet. I've sailed across the Bay of Bengal, up and down the East Coast of the US, and circumnavigated Iceland. I believe that despite the goodness and humanity of the individuals that comprise them, governments and corporations are soulessly without scruples and lacking in conscience, and that only vigilance and opposition keeps them in check. I work for Greenpeace. |
| Interests | Activism, music, creative expression of all kinds. Gadgets. New technologies that can be bent to subversive purposes. |
| Favorite Movies | Crash, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Amelie, LOTR, English Patient, Wizard of Oz, Aguirre the Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Alien, Manhattan, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Blow up, Cassablanca, Citizen Kane, Dr. Strangelove, ET, Easy Rider, Fargo, Fight Club, Gone with the Wind, Goodfellas, Lawrence of Arabia, The Man Who Would Be King, Nosferatu (30s version), Pulp Fiction, Psycho, On the Waterfront, Rear Window, Big Sleep, Star Wars, Godfather (I, II, AND III), The Graduate, Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, North by Northwest, Rebel without a cause, Signs, the Village, Chocolat, Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000, Day the Earth Stood Still, 2001, Clockwork Orange, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moonstruck, Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean |
| Favorite Music | Dar Williams, Be Good Tanyas, Greg Brown, Tori Amos, Frank Zappa, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, John Cale, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, U2, Jackson Browne, Talking Heads, Rusted Root, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Flaming Lips, Early R.E.M, Miles, Coltrane, Us3, Jefferson Airplane, Emminem, Jay-z, Blind Faith, Led Zep, Clapton, Emmerson Lake and Palmer, Cat Stevens, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, and Ludwig Von. |
| Favorite Books | Undeworld (DeLillo), Everything by Pynchon & JD Salinger, Steal this Book, the Monkeywrench Gang, Dune, Cat's Cradle, Galapagos, The Time Traveller's Wife, Life of Pi, Maus, The Magus, Ulysses, Bleak House, Far from the Madding Crowd, LOTR, Anna Karennina, Lolita, Pnin, Poetry of Robert Frost, James Wright, Theodore Roethke, Roland Flint. |