Riding the point
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Technical Supervisor |
| Location | GARDENA, CA, United States |
| Introduction | I am an easygoing, usually intelligent, gentle guy. I have studied American and European history all my adult life. I love museums, opera, ballet, baseball, big cities, live theater, good movies, and great books. I tend to pay more attention to ideas than to things. Hence, I am maladjusted. I believe that if you are too well-adjusted, you are too tolerant of injustice and suffering, and probably a little too incapable of genuine introspection. I am, however, a man of bewildering contradictions! Savior above, forgive my weaknesses! I would not even want to imagine a world without Starbucks, Jamba Juice, and Jennifer Tilly. Also, I remain a sucker for a set of pretty legs and a soft smile! I love to study history. It has always been my key to understanding my world. History expands our grasp of what people have thought and believed and is our least fallible guide to what we can be. We can learn from the ways people have danced; sung; acquired knowledge; structured their societies and distributed resources; and bowed to power and made revolutions. Each of these matters is in some way the result of ideas, from cave paintings to blogging. |
| Interests | History, philosophy, art-- esp. music and old photographs, ideas in general. |
| Favorite Movies | 1900--The Deer Hunter--The Godfather--Oh Brother! Where Art Thou--The Searchers--The Last Tango in Paris--The Godfather, Part II-- Chinatown--Lawrence of Arabia--Doctor Zhivago--The Leopard--Bonnie and Clyde--To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Favorite Music | Who's on your iPod? It's really the ringing question of our time! Your playlists provide the path to your soul!! Hank Williams is a cultural hero of mine. Buddy Miller plays and sings some of the most vibrant, exciting, poignant, and sensuous music available to us today. Alison Krauss ('nuff said!). I love the blues: Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins. I have recently developed a taste for what is now called Americana: Iris Dement, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Kasey Chambers, Fred Eaglesmith. I also am able to listen to opera without cringing, as well as some Chopin, some Mozart, some Ferde Grofé, some Aaron Copland. Of course, in the end, Dylan surpasses all. |
| Favorite Books | Freud, by Peter Gay---The Protestant Temperament, by Philip Greven---The Crooked Timber of Humanity, by Isaiah Berlin---Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, by Modris Eksteins---Civilization and its Discontents, by Sigmund Freud---Consciousness and Society: The Reorientation of European Social Thought, by H. Stuart Hughes---To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson---Paradise Lost, by John Milton---The Complete Works of Shakespeare, ed. David Bevington---Lincoln at Gettysburg: the Words that Remade America, by Garry Wills---The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, by Christopher Hill---The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt |
You're going to the moon! What did you forget to pack?
Oh my God! I forgot my 50 favorite books and my ipod!