Jack Hazard
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Chair of the BS Department |
| Location | United States |
| Introduction | "You never understood why we did this. The audience knows the truth: The world is simple, miserable, solid all the way through... But if you can fool them -- even for a second -- then you can make them wonder... and then you got to see something very special. You really don’t know? It was the look on their faces..."
--The Prestige
"I've been fighting these high-hat Ivy League pricks my whole life." --The Aviator |
| Interests | Photography, Washington Capitals, Hi-Def Audio, Victorian and Formalist Poetry, Plumaphilia, Rugby, Philology, Water Polo, The VSE, Writing, Microbrews |
| Favorite movies | Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Motorcycle Diaries, There Will Be Blood, Hero, Maverick, The Counterfeiters, The Impostors, In The Loop, The Good Shepherd, Watchmen, This Is England, Catch Me If You Can, Gattaca, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Last of the Mohicans, The Bourne Series, Dumb and Dumber, This is Spinal Tap, Harvey, The Beauty and the Beast, The Flying Scotsman, The Iron Giant, Thank You For Smoking, Full Metal Jacket, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Fight Club, Groundhog Day, Good Will Hunting, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Prestige, Sideways, Rounders, Traffic, Best in Show, Goodfellas, Million Dollar Baby,Glengarry Glen Ross, The Sixth Sense, Spartacus, Up, Office Space. I'm sure the list goes on... |
| Favorite music | Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins, White Stripes, Jurassic 5, Sonic Youth, Daft Punk, Elliott Smith, The Doors, The Clash, Spirit, Pavement,Operation Ivy, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky,Thelonious Monk, Led Zeppelin, Toots and the Maytals, Joy Division, Run-DMC, Velvet Underground, The Roots, Cream, Elvis Costello, Bob Marley, Philip Glass, Silverchair, Counting Crows, Crash Test Dummies, Cat Stevens,Yo-Yo Ma, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, The Who, Marcy Playground, The Prodigy, The Lemonheads,Frederic Chopin, R.E.M., Rinaldo Alessandrini, Billy Joel, Joshua Bell, 4 Non Blondes, Rage Against the Machine, Bad Brains, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart,The Stooges, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Luciano Pavarotti, Public Enemy, Lou Reed, DJ Danger Mouse, Oasis, Giacomo Puccini, The Breeders, Minor Threat, Enya, Giuseppe Verdi, Frank Sinatra, J.S. Bach, Asleep At The Wheel, Johannes Brahms, Joe Jackson, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Wilco, Antonio Vivaldi, Roberto Michelucci, Ludovico Einaudi, Nas |
| Favorite books | Anything by Hemingway, Anything by Tolkien, Calvin & Hobbes, Gates of Fire, Goodnight Moon, Catch-22, The Tin Drum, Black Hawk Down, A Tale of Two Cities, Confederacy of Dunces, Man's Search for Meaning, Grapes of Wrath, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Stranger, The Killer Angels, If I Die In A Combat Zone (Box Me Up And Ship Me Home), A Walk in the Woods, Into the Wild, The Psychopathic God, Fight Club, Ain't No Makin' It, For The Love Of Hockey, Potter & Co. |