Zach
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Grad student/First-Year Composition Instructor |
| Introduction | I am a student, a teacher, an academic, and a rabid consumer of high and low culture. |
| Interests | art, film, food, literature, popular culture, teaching, television |
| Favorite movies | American Beauty, American History X, American Psycho, Angels in America, The Believer, Bent, Big Eden, The Boys from Brazil, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Brick, Brokeback Mountain, The Business of Fancydancing, Capote, Carrington, Casablanca, The Celluloid Closet, Chocolat, Chuck & Buck, The Chumscrubber, Clerks, Coffee and Cigarettes, Cruel Intentions, A Dirty Shame, Dogma, Donnie Darko, The Dreamers, Edge of Seventeen, Election, Elizabeth I, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything Is Illuminated, The Family Stone, Finding Neverland, Ghost World, Gods and Monsters, Happiness, Harry Potter, Heavenly Creatures, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Heights, High Art, The Hours, The House of Yes, I Heart Huckabees, If These Walls Could Talk, Igby Goes Down, Imaginary Heros, The Importance of Being Earnest, Infamous, Jesus Camp, L.I.E., The Laramie Project, Latter Days, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, Lucky Number Slevin, The Magdalene Sisters, Marie Antoinette, Masculin Feminin, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mind the Gap, Misery, Monster, The Motel, Mysterious Skin, Normal, North by Northwest, Office Space, Palindromes, Priest, Real Women Have Curves, Red Dirt, Repulsion, Roman Holiday, Rope, Rosemary’s Baby, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Rules of Attraction, Rushmore, Saved!, Saving Face, Secretary, Shortbus, The Silence of the Lambs, Suddenly Last Summer, Sybil, Syriana, There Will Be Blood, Thumbsucker, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vertigo, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Wit |
| Favorite music | Andrew Bird, Antifolk, The Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Ben Folds, Billy Bragg, Bright Eyes, Buffalo Springfield, Camera Obscura, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Tracy Chapman, Christmas Music, The Cure, Kimya Dawson, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Bob Dylan, Gnarls Barkley, P. J. Harvey, Lazyboy TV, Jeffrey Lewis, Jenny Lewis, Nellie McKay Modest Mouse, The Mountain Goats, Neko Case, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Pavement, Pedro the Lion, Pink Martini, Placebo, R.E.M, Josh Ritter, William Shatner, The Shins, Silver Jews, Snow Patrol, Jill Sobule, Sufjan Stevens, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, The Who, Wolf Parade, …, BBC, NPR http://www.last.fm/user/zachybear/ |
| Favorite books | Sherwood Anderson, Gloria Anzaldua, Matthew Arnold, Machado de Assis, Margaret Atwood, Jane Austen, James Baldwin, Michael Beaumier, Samuel Beckett, William Blake, Augusten Borroughs, The Brontes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Albert Camus, Scott Carrier, Anton Chekhov, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jacques Derrida, Charles Dickens, John Donne, Dyodor Dostoevsky, T. S. Eliot, Bret Easton Ellis, Ralf Ellison, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, E. M. Forster, Michel Foucault, Stephen Fry, Allen Gisberg, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Gordon, Thomas Hardy, Bell Hooks, A. E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Henrik Ibsen, Washington Irving, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jack Kerouac, Maxine Hong Kingston, Chuck Klosterman, Tony Kushner, Hugh Laurie, Robert Lowell, Vladimir Nobokov, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, John Okada, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, J.D. Salinger, David Sedaris, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Percy Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gayatri Spivak, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, Tom Stoppard, Amy Tan, Leo Tolstoy, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Vowell, Alice Walker, Walt Whitman, Tennesee Williams, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, Richard Wright, William Butler Yeats, …, art books, literary/critical/cultural theory journals |