culturegeist
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Real Estate |
| Occupation | Real estate 9 to 5 & Writer the rest of the time |
| Location | Hamilton, New Jersey, United States |
| Introduction | Culture: (noun) the beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place or time. Geist: (noun) a German word translated as ghost, spirit or mind depending on its context. |
| Interests | Reading, writing/blogging, cinema, politics, media, history, playing guitar, evolving, traveling and dreaming. |
| Favorite movies | My favorite directors are Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, David Lean, John Ford, George Cukor and Francis Ford Coppola. In no particular order: Hitchcock's Spellbound, Slaughterhouse Five, The Godfather Part II, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, For Whom the Bell Tolls, V for Vendetta, Lawrence of Arabia, American Beauty, Last of the Mohicans, Dr. Zhivago, The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Name of the Rose, Casablanca, Ragtime, Roman Holiday, The Empire Strikes Back, Empire of the Sun, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Rear Window, A Clockwork Orange, The Last Emperor, Raising Arizona, Blazing Saddles, Rope, Five Million Years to Earth, Ben-Hur, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, LOR: The Return of the King - Director's Cut, Shadow of a Doubt, Strangers on a Train, How Green Was My valley, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The 25th Hour, Miller's Crossing, The Sound of Music, Das Boot, All the President's Men, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Frankenstein Unbound, Beau Geste, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Akira, Glory, The Shawshank Redemption. |
| Favorite music | "There are two kinds of music, good and the other kind." - Duke Ellington Right now I listen to lot of Radiohead. I play guitar and listen to everything from bluegrass, to punk; metal to classical; classic rock to world music - music is a language, I don't put my taste into a little bin for marketers to exploit. |
| Favorite books | Favorite books is relative, right now I'm reading - "Life" by Keith Richards, "The Condemnation of Blackness" by Khalil Gibran Muhammad, "The 900 Days: The Siege of Stalingrad" by Harrison Salisbury |