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Barak-Har Elkin
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GenderMale
IndustryEducation
OccupationProfessor of Literature & Culture
LocationEarth (Sol...Orion Arm...Milky Way), Virgo Supercluster, Israel
IntroductionFriendly, stand-offish, self-assured, arrogant, down-to-earth, snobby, thoughtful, not-thoughtful-enough, liberal, hardassed, tolerant, intolerant of intolerance, clever, dense, smart, stupid, enchanting, unbearable, intellectual, precise, philosophical, full of shit, humorous, unfunny, and fat. I have decent eyes, though, and I can use them to see through your head...
InterestsHumor, driving as fast as circumstances permit, cool art, smart women, intelligent conversation, mindlinking with cats, busting my friends' balls, reading literature, teaching philosophy, dressing with style, dressing down...
Favorite moviesPulp Fiction, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Contempt, 9, Serenity, Alien, Zoolander, Lost Highway, eXistenZ, El Mariachi, Hellboy, Amelie, V for Vendetta, Borat, Buena Vista Social Club, American Splendor, Fight Club, Dead Man, many more...
Favorite musicWeen, Manzanita (Ortega), Mingus, Los Lobos y Los Super Seven, Rubén Ramos, Amy Winehouse, Tom Waits, Flaco Jiménez, lots more...
Favorite booksThe Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Gertrude Stein — The Making of Americans, Samuel R. Delany — Phallos, Thomas Pynchon — Gravity's Rainbow, Gerald Vizenor — Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles, Thomas Ligotti — Teatro Grottesco, Stories by Jorge Luis Borges — Edgar Allan Poe — H.P. Lovecraft, Chuck Palahniuk, many more...
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