Alex Deley
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Urban Planner |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | Urban and Regional Planner. Internationalist. Music fanatic. Contrarian Polemicist. |
| Interests | Current Events, History, International Soccer, Urban Planning, Environmentalism, Economics, Music, Literature, Film, Photographhy |
| Favorite Movies | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Withnail & I, Metropolitan, F For Fake, Network, Dr. Strangelove, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, City of God, Amarcord, Sweet and Lowdown, Touch of Evil, Straight No Chaser, Persona, Shoot the Piano Player, The 400 Blows, Wild Strawberries, All About My Mother, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Brazil, Jules et Jim, The Fog of War, 8 1/2, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Ran, The Rules of the Game, Blade Runner |
| Favorite Music | Django Reinhardt, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Jimmy Smith Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Sun Ra, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Bob Dylan |
| Favorite Books | "The Savage Detectives" - Roberto Bolano, "Homage To Catalonia" - George Orwell, "Catch 22" - Joseph Heller, "Absalom Absalom" - William Faulkner, "The Plague" - Albert Camus, "Decline and Fall" - Evelyn Waugh, "Pity The Nation" - Robert Fisk, "In The Shadow of the Sun" - Ryszard Kapuschinki, "Orientalism" - Edward Said, "Life On the Mississippi" - Mark Twain, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" - Jane Jacobs, "Collected Fictions" - Jorgs Luis Borges, "The Great Shark Hunt" - Hunter S. Thompson, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - Thomas S. Kuhn, “The Logic of Scientific Discovery” – Karl Popper, "The Histories" - Herodotus, "Hopscotch" - Julio Cortazar, "Cadillac Desert" - Marc Reisner, "Pale Fire” – Vladimir Nabokov, “The Master & Margarita” – Mikhail Bulgakov, “Don Quixote” – Cervantes, “A Hero Of Our Time” – Mikhail Lermontov, “Dead Souls” – Nicolai Gogol, “Design With Nature” – Ian McHarg |