Andrew Hingston
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Writer / Teacher |
| Location | Poznań, Wielkopolska, Poland |
| Introduction | British and American citizen, raised and educated in the USA (Northern California, New Haven, Connecticut, and Chicago, Illinois). Former Wall Street corporate and real property lawyer, small time ice cream magnate, Michelin listed chef and restaurateur, sometime poet, art and architecture critic, blues singer, and wannabe novelist. Married for the first time at 54; father for the first time at 55; currently living in England, recently living in Poland; married to Polish citizen; father of Polish, English, and American citizen. This blog is dedicated to my wonderful wife, our wonderful son, and our soon-to-be wonderful daughter. Thanks for letting me come along on this adventure. |
| Interests | My beautiful wife, our miraculous son, our amazing dog, books, music, cooking, wine, architecture, urban & rural planning, civil and individual rights, immigration policy (open immigration), economics and politics (very liberal), contributing to the positive, undermining the negative, civil society, emerging economies, Central Europe, minority cultures in Europe, eradicating corruption, beating the bad guys (especially when they look like the good guys).... |
| Favorite movies | La Grande Illusion, Closely Watched Trains, Les Quatres Cents Coups, The Wizard of Oz, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Seven Samurai, My Life as a Dog, Annie Hall, Touch of Evil, Casablanca, Chinatown, Godfather Trilogy, Star Wars, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Eat Drink Man Woman, Last Tango in Paris, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Tom Jones, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Empire of the Sun, Finding Nemo |
| Favorite music | Claudio Monteverdi, Johnny Hodges, Gustav Mahler, Miles Davis, Domenico Scarlatti, Thelonius Monk, J-S Bach, Coleman Hawkins, W-A Mozart (especially the 3 DaPonte operas), Bill Evans, Ludwig v. Beethoven (especially the late piano sonatas, string quartets, and symphonies 3, 4, 6 & 7), Joseph Haydn, Ornette Coleman, J-P Rameau, Sonny Rollins, G-F Handel, Dexter Gordon, C-P-E Bach, Ben Webster, Isaac Albenez, Louis Armstrong, Henry Purcell, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Dimitri Shostakovich, John Coltrane, Gabriel Faure, Nina Simone, Ralph Vaughn-Williams, Billy Holiday, Thomas Tallis, Duke Ellington, Johannes Brahms, The World Saxophone Quartet, Robert Schumann, James Brown, Bohuslav Martinu, Robert Johnson, Muzio Clementi, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Franz Schubert, Chester Burnett, Claude Debussy, Kieth Jarrett, Gyorgy Kurtag, The Rolling Stones, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, Richard Rogers, Led Zeppelin, Bela Bartok, McKinley Morganfield, Kurt Weill, Burt Jansch, Buddy Guy, Frederic Chopin, Jean Sibelius, Sun Ra, Felix Mendelssohn,Stan Getz, Alexander Scriabin, Bud Powell |
| Favorite books | War & Peace, the works of Jeanette Winterson, the spy novels of Alan Furst, the novels of Anthony Trollope, the works of Norman Lewis, dictionaries (especially old ones), histories of Europe (particularly 19th and 20th century Europe), the works of V S Naipaul, the biographical essays of A J P Taylor and Winston Churchill, The Moor's Last Sigh, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Ring and the Book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking |
That can't really be a fish you're standing on, can it?
Why ever not? A stock of tins of tuna and salmon?