Ruy Rodrigues
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Government |
| Occupation | Carpediemist |
| Location | Moscow, Russia |
| Introduction | I am, to borrow Anne Frank, a bundle of contradictions: adventurous yet domesticated, easy-going and passionate, chatty yet a good listener, respectful and irreverent, God-fearing yet skeptical, idealistic and old-fashioned, optimistic yet cautious, lively and stoic, flexible yet uncompromising, inquisitive yet oddly incurious. People hold me in thrall, stimulating exchanges of ideas and insights with those who care, dare or both in any of my seven tongues. Night owl, bookworm, chameleon, crane and cat all call me kin. Causes swim inside me like fishes in the deep blue sea of lovely pearl-string islands I call home. This mélange makes me, if the mood catches, a Gauguinesque child of the tropics, a wondering nomad like Waugh, deconstructed intellectual with Sartrean leanings, uppercase Romantic in the best Pushkin tradition and glass-half-full fellow in Mandela mold. |
| Interests | Travel, literature, cinema, wines, coffee, cigars, tea, art, cuisine, skiing, languages, history, religion |
| Favorite Movies | Amadeus, Rashômon, Le jeu interdit, Amores perros, Nuovo cinema paradiso, Ladri di biciclette, Fucking Åmål, Est-Ouest, Shichinin no samurai, Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Hable con ella, À la verticale de l'été, When Harry Met Sally, Bronenosets Potyomkin, Tonari no Totoro, Braveheart, Tengoku to jigoku, Festen, L'odeur de la papaye verte, Palwolui Christmas, Jean de Florette, Ran La femme du boulanger, Shrek, Being John Malkovich, 12 Angry Men Groundhog Day, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Ghost Story, Il Mare, Notting Hill, Léon, Fa yeung nin wa |
| Favorite Music | Mozart, Zebda, Manu Chao, Princesses Nubiennes, Youssou N'Dour, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Joey Ayala, Madredeus, 5'nizza, Estrella Moriente, Caetano Veloso, David Tao, Jovanotti, 10000 Maniacs, Verdi, Corquien, Gosti iz budushego, Cesaria Evora |
| Favorite Books | Mikhail Bulgakov, Salman Rushdie, Kawabata Yasujiro, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, Mo Yan, Andrey Kurkov, PG Wodehouse |
When you spilled the milk, did it look like the moon?
No, not until it curdled and turned to green cheese