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Introduction Hopelessly romantic idealist hopefully clinging onto the ideals of utopian socialism and pacifist anarchism — but only by the skin of my teeth. Would wish to publish the manifesto of the liberating philosophy of agnostic spiritualism, but for years my dissertation on the "Religious Identification of Ptolemaic Queens with Aphrodite, Demeter, Hathor and Isis" was taking up what time I had left besides teaching.
Favorite Movies Amadeus, Blade Runner, Brazil, Cleopatra, Death in Venice, La Dolce Vita, Farewell My Concubine, The Last Emperor, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Nosferatu, Once Upon a Time in the West, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Raise the Red Lantern, Ran, Ugetsu.
Favorite Music Agnostic Front, Anaal Nathrakh, Anthrax, Atheist, Bach, Beatles, Beethoven, Björk, Black Sabbath, Blondie, David Bowie, Kate Bush, J.J. Cale, Cake, Carcass, Celtic Frost, The Clash, John Coltrane, Cynic, Miles Davis, Death, Deep Purple, Disembowelment, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Jimi Hendrix, Iggy Pop, Iron Maiden, King Crimson, The Kinks, Kiss, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Coco Lee, Magma, Mastodon, MC5, Megadeth, Metallica, Thelonious Monk, Morbid Angel, Mozart, New York Dolls, Nile, Nocturnus, Opeth, Pink Floyd, Astor Piazzolla, Portishead, Prince, Queen, Radiohead, Ramones, Lou Reed, Rolling Stones, Santana, Sepultura, Slayer, Stravinsky, T. Rex, Tan Dun, Johnny Thunders, Trivium, Vangelis, Velvet Underground, The Who, Yes, non-Western traditional/ classical/ world music, etc.
Favorite Books Gilgamesh, Homer, Longus: Daphnis & Chloë, Abélard, Chushingura, Shakespeare, Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Orwell: Homage to Catalonia, Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls, (and too much else English literature), Montesquieu: Lettres Persanes, Émile Zola, Gustav Flaubert, Antoine de St.-Exupéry: Le Petit Prince, (and other French works), J.W. Goethe: Faust, Werther, Franz Kafka: Metamorphose, Thomas Mann: Tod in Venedig, Heinrich Böll, Ransmayr: The Last World, Bulgakov: Master & Margarita, Borges: Labyrinth, Eco: Foucault’s Pendulum, Louis Couperus, Simon Vestdijk, Harry Mulisch, (Dutch authors), Louis Paul Boon, (just to give a brief impression — and I also enjoy reading classic horror novels: Dracula, Frankenstein, and stories by E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, & Arthur Machen.