Tony Alterman
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
| Introduction | Philosopher, musician, blogger, poet and photographer; thanks to computers I also earn a living. Sometimes teach philosophy to formerly innocent minds, preach views of the arts, and screech when I have the urge to fiddle, strum or sing. Occasionally I may be caught in the act at a philosophy conference or with a guitar, a camera, an essay or poem, a chess set, or other implements of mass destruction. |
| Favorite Movies | Citizen Kane, Vertigo, Wild Strawberries, Our Man Flint, The Tree of the Wooden Clogs, Duck Soup, Casablanca, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Modern Times, Being John Malkovich |
| Favorite Music | Brahms' First Symphony, Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, 10CC's The Original Soundtrack, Liszt's B Minor Piano Sonata, Dwight Yoakum's This Time, Handel's Concerti Grossi Opus 6, Coltrane's My Favorite Things, Charlie Parker, the Heifetz/Reiner version of the Brahms Violin Concerto, Blind Willie McTell's Atlanta Twelve String, the soundtrack to the original cast production of Oliver, Led Zep I, Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians, David and Igor Oistrakh's recording of the the Bach C Major Trio Sonata, practically anything by the Beatles, Bruckner's 1st Symphony, Joni Mitchell's The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Getz/Gilberto, Mahler's Sixth Symphony, the Gang of Four, George Crumb's Night of the Four Moons, Nektar's Remember the Future, Pat Metheny Group's Offramp, Big Bill Broonzy, the Chausson Piano Quartet, Nirvana's Nevermind, Sibelius's Second Symphony, I could go on... |
| Favorite Books | Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, the Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, Christopher's Caudwell's Illusion and Reality, Dr. Seuss's Oh the Places You'll Go, Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, the stories of Katherine Mansfield, Hobbes's Leviathan, Whitman's Leaves of Grass. |
You forgot your mom's birthday! What can you make out of super glue and olive pits?
A chance to be disinherited.