DJStan
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Consulting |
| Occupation | Systems Analysis/Design |
| Location | Bronx, New York, United States |
| Introduction | The older I get, the more impressed I am by the role that chance plays in our lives - or, to paraphrase John Lennon, life is what happens to you while you're busy making plans. |
| Interests | Spinoza, Nintendo (NES to WII), North American Indian cultures, Mythology, North Africa, Art Deco, Zoology and Zoos, early animation, Joseph Cornell, real cheese popcorn, medieval ivory, old circus posters, Caravaggio, carnivals, masks, Kara Walker, the shore, terracotta, Joseph Cornell, acoustic guitar, Shakespeare, theatre, Little Nemo, close-up magic, Rembrandt self-portraits |
| Favorite movies | Gunga Din, Sunrise, City Lights, Magnificent Seven, Throne of Blood, Strangers On A Train, Wallace Beery, Third Man, Marx Brothers (through Races), Kubrick, Thief of Bagdad, Jean Harlow, I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, Seconds, Seventh Seal, Big Lebowski, Robin Hood (Flynn), Bogart, This Island Earth, Max Fleischer, GoodFellas, many more... |
| Favorite music | Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Aaron Copland, late Mozart, Kronos Quartet, Tin Hat Trio, bop and post-bop (Miles, Trane, Monk), Rev. Gary Davis, Beethoven's Eighth, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Ry Cooder, Maria Muldaur, Paganini Caprices, Carter Family, Blind Blake, Dusty Springfield, Andres Segovia, the Comedian Harmonists, Dylan, Lou Reed, Terry Riley, Fred Neil, Goldberg Variations (Gould), Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer, Toumani Diabate, Bessie Smith, Chet Baker, John Fahey, Sandy Bull, Debussy, Los Lobos, the Pogues, Taj Mahal, Randy Newman, Dexter Gordon, many more... |
| Favorite books | Shakespeare, Melville, Philip K. Dick, Fathers and Sons, Sun Also Rises, Don Quixote, Ovid, Euripides, Canterbury Tales, Tennyson, Whitman, the Wonder Clock, Cat's Cradle, Life Against Death, Middlemarch, Bleak House, The Ancestor's Tale, Tim Powers, Ulysses, Italo Calvino, Chekhov, Ginsberg, Jude the Obscure, Primo Levi, |