Robert Cettl

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Strategic Analyst / Freelance EFL Education Professional
Location Shanghai, China
Introduction Freelance EFL Education Professional ling in Shanghai, China. Former SAR Research Fellow at Australia's National Film and Sound Archive [NFSA]. Published author whose books are in the National Libraries of China, Australia and the US Library of Congress. Independent digital publisher registered with Thorpe-Bowker and experimental auto-ethnographic videographer.
Interests computer-assisted language learning (CALL), digital publishing, e-Books, film censorship and erotica, user-generated content, digital ethnography, film criticism, ethnographic film-making
Favorite Movies The Choirboys, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Emperor of the North, The Warriors, The Wolf of Wall Street, Caligula, Cafe Flesh, The French Connection 1 + 2, Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (1976), Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, Mad Max, Vanishing Point, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, Blade Runner, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Salo, Irreversible, A Serbian Film, Quest for Fire, Cockfighter...
Favorite Music Meatloaf, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, Ambrosia, Jefferson Starship, Barry Adamson, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Alice Cooper, Roxy Music, Supertramp, Lalo Schifrin, Roy Budd, Nektar, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Mountain, War, Mercury Rev, Joe Walsh, The Eagles, Dire Straits, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Mandingo, Zephyr, Santana...
Favorite Books Naked Lunch (Burroughs), Heart of Darkness (Conrad), Politics of Ecstasy (Leary), Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (Biskind), Woman Warrior (Hong-Kingston), Songs of Innocence & Experience (Blake), Clockwork Orange (Burgess), Howard the Duck (Gerber)...

There is a fool on the edge of a cliff. Chained at the ankle, he can only gaze down, longing for the Fall. What makes him a fool: the longing or the chains?