Dana Barnett
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Science |
| Occupation | Musician, philosopher, writer, collector |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | Freethinking savant with a passion for learning anything and everything. Music obsessive, synth enthusiast. Produces, records, and occasionally performs under the moniker Insectoid Intelligence. Labors feverishly on philosophical projects that threaten never to arrive at any satisfying conclusion. |
| Interests | Music, biology, art, philosophy, history, earth science, speculative fiction, synthesizers, neuroscience, languages, astronomy, film, comedy, cats, poetry, atheism |
| Favorite movies | The Conversation, The Ipcress File, Videodrome, Profondo Rosso, Blazing Saddles, Barbarella, Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life", The Revenge of Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, Fantastic Planet, Dr. Strangelove, Space Is The Place, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Masque of the Red Death, Theatre of Blood, Lisa and the Devil, Blow-Up, Get Carter |
| Favorite music | Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Yes, Tortoise, Tangerine Dream, Herbie Hancock, Klaus Schulze, Pete Namlook, Suzanne Ciani, George Duke, Autechre, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Lush, Stereolab, Roy Ayers, Weather Report, Bill Evans, Steve Roach, Brian Eno, Debussy, Scriabin, etc. |
| Favorite books | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Left Hand of Darkness, Earthsea, Dune, Zibaldone di Pensieri, Republic, Spinoza's Ethics, Pragmatism by William James, Zhuangzi, The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger, The Book by Alan Watts, old Botany textbooks |