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About me

Gender	Male
Location	Inland Empire, California, United States
Introduction	I graduated from Eisenhower High School in Rialto, California in 1975. Did four years in the USAF as a chinese linguist. Got my BA in Theatre Arts from California State College, San Bernardino. Went through the Professional Program in Screenwriting at UCLA. Have written plays for the stage and comedy for radio morning shows. Lately I've been acting a lot. I've been in shows by Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Edmond Rostand and Maurice Maeterlinck -- not a bad run! People ask, "Why Myrhaf?" Myrhaf is a character in an historical novel I'm writing called <i>Viking Blood</i>. He is a mentor figure who dies in the first chapter. I thought the name would give my blog some style, some flair and a title readers would remember. My real name is William Greeley. Although I am an Objectivist and often write about the philosophy on this blog, I do not speak for anyone but myself. I would urge those who want to learn about Objectivism to read Ayn Rand's novels and nonfiction books and then Leonard Peikoff's <i>Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand</i>.
Interests	Politics, philosophy, drama, history, Objectivism, pop music, literature, acting, playwriting
Favorite movies	M, Ninotchka, North By Northwest, Lawrence of Arabia, Grand Hotel (first hour), DOA, Casablanca, The Fountainhead, We the Living, La Strada, Nights Of Cabiria, The Blue Angel, The Last Laugh, My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, Only Angels Have Wings, Morocco, Queen Christina, Dynamite, The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, The 39 Steps, The Shop Around the Corner, The Godfather, From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, Dr. No, Bringing Up Baby, Brief Encounter, The Third Man, Camille, Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Siegfried, Rebecca, The Bridge Over River Kwai, The Seven-Year Itch, Fury, The Sands of Iwo Jima, Trouble In Paradise, Manslaughter, Mata Hari, Duck Soup, The Mountain Wildcat, The Love Parade, Sunrise, The Oyster Princess, Gone With the Wind, Sabrina, Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future, E.T., Planet of the Apes, Jason and the Argonauts, The Man in the White Suit
Favorite music	The Cure, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, David Bowie and the Spiders From Mars, Sky Cries Mary, Sparklehorse, Zombies, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter, Beatles, Chuck Berry, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Harry Warren, Rogers and Hart, Malcolm Arnold, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Puccini
Favorite books	Ayn Rand, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Henrik Ibsen, Pierre Corneille, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Schnitzler, Maurice Maeterlinck, Anton Chekhov, August Strindberg, Terence Rattigan, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, P.G. Wodehouse, H.L. Mencken, W. Somerset Maugham, Maxim Gorky, Sophocles, Swinburne, Shelley, Keats, Ben Jonson, Tennyson