William Monje
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Artist/Writer |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | I have been a professional artist and writer my entire life, particularly working in the theatre beginning as a set designer/scenic artist and more recently a produced playwright. As a writer I have shorter pieces of fiction and a considerable amount of nonfiction, including writing and editing for what we used to call “underground newspapers” back in the seventies. More recently I have been writing novels, some of epic proportion, mostly character-driven science fiction with lots of space adventure action. Four e-books formatted for the Kindle have been published on Amazon. This is the link: http://tinyurl.com/37lo4b4 I have also taken an interest in painting landscapes of Northern California to where we have recently moved. Giclée prints of most of that work are available at Yessy.com—http://www.yessy.com/wm-monje/landscapes.html I also teach art part-time at a private academy. |
| Interests | Art, writing, learning, observing people, movies, music, humanity, architecture, theatre, antiques, cats, human rights, observing landscapes, collecting DVDs, archeology, paleontology, day dreaming, painting landscapes, watching DVDs, history, philosophy, civil liberties, most animals, science fiction, astronomy, animals rights |
| Favorite movies | Anything by Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, African Queen, Stage Coach (John Ford version), Top Hat, The Godfather, The Godfather Part Two, East of Eden, Dr. Strangelove, Rocky Horry Picture Show, Easy Rider, Brazil, The Big Lebowski, My Fair Lady, High Noon, Bow Finger, A Fist Full of Dollars, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Unforgiven, John Carpenter’s Vampires, Brigadoon, Equilibrium, Fargo, Burn After Reading, Fisher King, and more. |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, Bach, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Hoagie Carmichael, Beatles, Randy Newman, John Williams, Richard Rogers, Jerry Goldberg, Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, and more. |
| Favorite books | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma of Oz, etc., 1984, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Ulysses by James Joyce, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lolita, Grapes of Wrath, Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Letters From the Earth, The New Inquisition, An Outline of History, two volumes by H. G. Wells, The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant, and more. |