The Frumious Falafel
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Database Analyst / Software Consultant |
| Location | Williamsburg, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | songwriter and aspiring composer, a mediocre piano and cello player, a pseudo-intellectual, an arm-chair-Zionist, a Liberal recently mugged by reality (on 9/11), a dyed-in-the-wool and unrepentant Freudian |
| Interests | Classical Music, German Lieder LOVER, French Mélodie, Masses (choral) by Mozart,Bach,and Fauré, a Bernard Hermann fan, and of course: Brahms. Any and ALL Opera by Mozart. |
| Favorite movies | 8 1/2 by Fellini; Lolita by Kubrick (the screenplay actually written by Nabokov!), The Wild Bunch, Countless others... |
| Favorite music | Traditional: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Barber Turn of Century: Scott Joplin, Fauré, Mahler, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff Mid-Century: Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Samuel Barber (BRAVO all neoclassicists!), and the Elliot Carter *early* String Quartet which he later "disavowed" Jazz: Swing, bebop, "straight-ahead", East Coast AND West Coast "Schools", Thelonius Monk, Emily Remler Contemporary: Peter Gabriel, My Bloody Valentine, Thomas Dolby, Prefab Sprout, Edward Remler, Cocteau Twins Postmodern: Steve Reich - esp "Desert Music" |
| Favorite books | Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov -- it trumps all. |