Gary Thomas
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, amateur philosopher, etc. |
| Location | Lexington, Kentucky, United States |
| Introduction | Click on link below |
| Interests | Music, literature, artistic biography, rural America that time has passed by, Nazi era books [I wanna know what makes people act/not act the way they do, and this era brought out extremities of such], mid-to-late 1960s classic era[and latter-day classic era descendant]pop and rock music, art, amateur philosophy, audiophilia, period piece and period road movies, nicotinia related atmospherics [inc. pipes and pipe smoking, cigars, Cigar and Cigar Aficianado magazine], beauty, sports cars/automobiles [beauty again], The Great Plains, North Africa, sports in general [esp. classic/traditional constructs such as Wimbledon, The British Open, F1 racing, Red Sox, Wrigley Field, Fenway, Lambeau Field, Red Wings, Penguins, Browns, Packers, Fighting Irish, Nebraska, Crimson Tide, LA Coliseum and the old Soldier Field, etc.], Federer, Schumacher, Mickelson, Joe Torre [yes Joe, no NYY], Pete Rose, Brian Sipe, Al Davis,new and vintage newspapers [take me back to 1907 when I can go down to the street corner on a Sunday morning and pick up a brand spankin' new copy of the big, colourful, and glorious New York World], Criterion dvds,fingerpicked music, Mojo and Uncut magazine, etc. |
| Favorite movies | Films directed by the late great David Lean[esp. from the mid 1950s onward], Merchant Ivory films[esp. from early 80s thru mid 90s], Stanley Kubrick [esp. 2001-an incomparable masterpiece], Orson Welles, Terrence Malick films, Joel and Ethan Coen's Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There [this includes absolutely luscious black and white photography-its as if the paint is dripping from the screen], Fellini and 60s Italian directors, etc. |
| Favorite music | Dire Straits [esp. Brothers In Arms], The Police [esp. Synchronicity], Sting [esp. his first 2 solo lps], The Beatles [esp. Rubber Soul thru Magical Mystery Tour], Tears For Fears, The Beach Boys [esp. the Pet Sounds/SMiLE era], Brian Wilson [all solo lps], mid-to-late period XTC, Pink Floyd [esp. Dark Side thru The Final Cut], Lindsey Buckingham, Paul Simon [esp. Hearts and Bones, Graceland, and The Rhythm of The Saints], 1960s Motown, Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' Southern Accents, Robbie Robertson first 2 solo lps, Raging Bull's opening credit orchestral score, the great film composer Ennio Morricone, Bruce Hornsby & The Range, etc. |
| Favorite books | Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky, An Invisible Spectator [a biography of Bowles], A Dog's Book of Truths, Shelley:The Pursuit, Jean Baudrillard's America, William Styron [inc. Darkness Visible], Ecclesiastes, The Gospels, and The Book of Revelation, Peter Matthiessen's In The Spirit of Crazy Horse [an epic masterwork of nonfiction], Robert Frank's seminal work The Americans, Nazi era books [such as William Shirer's The Nightmare Years, Hitler's Willing Executioners, The Nazi Conscience, and Saul Friedlander's brand new The Extermination of the Jews], Heart of Darkness, Darkness at Noon...dark books, eh:), classic era music biography,etc. |
Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?
I seek no honour, for every earthly victory is pyrrhic.