bramosenos
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | retired |
| Introduction | As you can tell from my interests, I'm very eclectic, and within those interests I'm more or less so as well. |
| Interests | The Celts, theater, history, language and linguistics, religion, theology, literature, music, poetry, aesthetics, comic books, social and "hard" sciences, collecting: I'm a pack rat/ Books, music, comic books, old bottles, old toys, magazines that have stuff that interests me. |
| Favorite movies | Too long a list to fit here: a few: Nosferatu, Potemkin, The Gold Rush, Duck Soup, 42nd Street, Swing Time, Casablanca, Holiday Inn, On the Waterfront, South Pacific, Oklahoma, Carousel, The King and I, Hans Christian Andersen, Lili, Psycho, Dead of Night, Touch of Evil, And God Created Woman, Last Year At Marienbad, Hiroshima, 8 1/2, The Tender Trap, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad world, Dr. Strangelove, Head, Easy Rider, 2001, Midnight Cowboy, Star Trek IV, Star Wars IV and VI, Batman (all), Betelgeuse, Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, Philadelphia, Dances with Wolves, Brokeback Mountain, The Toxic Avenger, Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, Tromeo and Juliet, Silence of the Lambs, Hedd Wyn, The Secret of Roan Inish, Braveheart, etc. The Lord of the Rings, any movie with dinosaurs, old B cowboy movies, Monty Python movies, Musicals, psychological thrillers and horror, most anything with weird effects. TV: The Twilight Zone, Mr. Lucky, Jackie Gleason, Carol Burnett, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Laugh-In, Hee Haw, Barney Miller, M*A*S*H*, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Young Ones, |
| Favorite music | Celtic, especially in the native languages, 50's rock, old country and western, classical, 60's rock, especially the "heavy" stuff, Jazz up to and including "cool." (Nothing since.) New Wave and some Punk, and Rap any thing Psychedelic or with "exotic"instruments (sitar, harpsichord, bagpipes, recorder, oud, koto, etc), Broadway and Movies musicals, Folk, Pop from Stephen Foster to and beyond Eurhythmics, Ska and Reggae, etc. |
| Favorite books | The L. Frank Baum children's canon, The Earth For Sam, Life Long Ago, Stranger in a Strange Land, More than Human, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Journal of Albion Moonlight, Books by Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury; Sleepers Awake (On the Precipice,) The Collected Poems of Carl Sandberg, The Collected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, The Collected Poems of e.e. cummings, Spoon River Anthology, Under Milkwood, Howl and other Poems, The Dharma Bums, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Electric Kool-ade Acid Test, Beautiful Losers, A Brief History of Everything, A Brief History of Time, Who Wrote the Bible?, Saint Saul, The Sins of Scripture, Jesus Christ for Today's World, The Problem of Evil, The Essential Rumi, The Tao of Physics, anything by Alan Watts, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan and Matthew Fox; Another Roadside Attraction, (and others,) The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and Others,) The Left Hand of Darkness, Stand On Zanzibar, In Search of the Indo-Europeans, The Horse, the Wheel and Language, The Journey of Man, Celts,Saxons and Vikings, The Celtic Heroic Age, etc Detective and thriller series: Evan Evans, Molly Murphy and Her Royal Spuness series by Rhys Bowen, The Cat Who..., Nero Wolfe, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, Oscar Wilde murder mysteries - Gyles Brandreth, Jefferson Tayte genealogical mysteries, Janet Evanovich's number series, Sue Grafton's alphabetical series, the Mrs. Murphy series. the Sister Fidelma series |