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Dave

Goddamn it, Otto, you have Lupus

About Me

Soon I'll be leaving my job working for the City of New York, but public service will forever be in my heart

My Interests

yoga, playing music, traveling, crossword puzzles, grilling, going to museums, egg nog, skiing, greenmarkets, baseball, stoop sales, architecture, random information, wandering around the city with my camera, pemaquid oysters, used book stores, standing on my head, brooklyn, periodicals, recreational eating; listening to music, watching movies, reading:

I'd like to meet:

my new neighbors, old friends, tall tale tellers, the zucker brothers, people with boats, characters, the omniscient striding man

Music:

Clifford Brown, Bartok, Miles, Stravinsky, Zeppelin, Bach, Mahler, Freddie Hubbard, Shostakovich, Coltrane, Sinatra, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Kenny Dorham, The Beatles, Ellington, Johnny Cash, James Brown, Beethoven, Zappa, Gil Evans, Pink Floyd, Dinah Washington, Ray Barretto, Scriabin, David Grisman, Irakere, Lee Morgan, Jethro Tull, Fela Kuti, Willie Nelson, Carl Stalling, Dave Douglas, Journey, Lonnie Smith, Dale Watson, Stereolab, Mongo Santamaria, Simon and Garfunkel, Grant Green, Chuck Mangione, Etta James, Ozomatli, Muddy Waters, Cat Stevens, Nat King Cole, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Howlin' Wolf, Mingus, early Jerry Band, The Clash, Joe Bataan, Edgar Winter, Woody Shaw, Ernest Tubb, Otis Redding, Jim Croce, Tower of Power, Wesley Willis, Aretha Franklin, Mongo Jerry, Doobie Brothers, Bill Monroe, Albert King, Joe Henderson, Roger Miller, Ethiopiques, Santo and Johnny, Boston, Joni Mitchell, Cachao, Celia Cruz, Little Milton, Art Blakey, Buzzcocks, Antibalas, The JBs, Loretta Lynn, That Dog, Eddie Palmieri, The Samples, Esquivel, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band, Palestrina, Lebron Brothers, The Bamboos, Hank Snow, Grupo Fantasma, Nino Rota, Neil Young, King Curtis, Julie London, Marc Ribot, Tchaikovsky, Boogaloo Joe Jones, Willie Colon, Otis Rush, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Cuba Sextet, Bruckner, Allman Brothers, Sugarman Three, Nelson Riddle, Buckwheat Zydeco, Railroad Earth, Freddie Roach, Martin Denny, Oingo Boingo, Black on White Affair, Maceo, Fania All Stars, Bob Wills, Nina Simone,

Movies:

Vacation, Amadeus, Kentucky Fried Movie, Vertigo, Airplane, Brazil, Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, Team America, Shaft, City of God, The Changeling, Animal House, La Dolce Vita, The Big Lebowski, My Dinner with Andre, Naked Gun, Annie Hall, Crazy David Vol. II, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors Trilogy, The Manchurian Candidate ('62 version), Police Academy, I Spit On Your Grave, The Warriors, Office Space, Ascenseur pour L'échafaud, Spinal Tap, North by Northwest, That's Armageddon!, Weekend, Vanya on 42nd Street, Dirty Harry, Ugetsu, Cinema Paradiso, Blazing Saddles, Lucia y el Sexo, Metropolis, L'Avventura, The Decalogue, Amarcord, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Fletch, Repulsion, City of Women, Orfeu Negro, The Double Life of Veronique, Harold and Kumar, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach, Rear Window, The Gods Must Be Crazy

Television:

Family Guy, Bob Ross, Jeopardy, The Simpsons, Mythbusters, The Muppet Show, Price is Right, Aqua Teen, Electric Company, Hawaii Five-O, Top Chef, Daily Show, This Old House, Alias, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Austin City Limits, Caliente, Old Warner Bros. Cartoons, Law and Order SVU, South Park, America's Test Kitchen, The Office, Wonder Showzen, Meet the Press, The Midnight Q, Big Joe Polka Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Frontline,

Books:

H.L. Mencken - Chrestomathy, The Agony and the Ecstasy, Our Dumb Century, T.S. Eliot - Collected Poems, Larousse Gastronomique, Death in Venice, The World Almanac, Naked Pictures of Famous People, The Alienist, Complete Adventures of Curious George, The Divine Comedy, Chekhov - Early Short Stories [http://www.eldritchpress.org/ac/jr/], The Baseball Encyclopedia, A Carnival of Buncombe, Self-Reliance, Guns Germs and Steel, The Brothers Karamazov, America (The Book), Joseph Campbell - Creative Mythology, Invisible Man, The Portable Dorothy Parker, Jung - Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Tropic of Cancer, The Pleasure of My Company, Swann's Way, Light on Pranayama, Borges - Ficciones, The Professor and the Madman, Oxford Companion to Wine, The Tipping Point, Napalm and Silly Putty, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York Panorama, Langston Hughes - Collected Poems, Up in the Old Hotel, The Three Pillars of Zen, Women in Love, Synchronicity, Far Side Gallery, The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy, Gotham

Heroes:

Also: Jim Henson, Bach, Bob Barker, Steve McGarrett, Emerson, Clifford Brown, Mencken, Richard Maurice Bucke, Big Jim Slade, Jane Jacobs, Bill Hicks, Takeru Kobayashi