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Mr. Neil

Here I be!

About Me



I love to learn and that is what I spend much of my time doing. I am a High School Teacher, Musician and Bioorganic Chemist. Completed 287 college credit hours with more on the way. Major collector of cinema and sound. Constant improvement and expansion of mind and self. Currently working on a Post-Doctoral Degree in Advanced Uber-Nerditudinal Studies.

My Interests

Cinema, Music, Time, Learning, Staring at Electomagnetic Radiation of 379-381 Nanometers, All Forms of Art, The Rare and Obscure, Observation and Understanding, Latin and Ancient Greek Translation, Intellectual Challenges, Traveling, Multidisciplinary Scientific Research, Cannoli, Other Cultures, Attempting to Screen/Playwrite, Music Theory and Composition, Yo-Yos, Stuff and Things.

I'd like to meet:



Amusing and intelligent artists. People who have an appreciation for absolutely dry and dumb humor. People who have a strong love for movies and/or music are the people with whom I bond the most. Musically unemployed, looking for unconventional musical collaborations. People who are too legit that it is not optimal for them to quit.

Music:



SOME BANDS: A-Ha, Amebix, Antony and the Johnsons, Arab Strap, Atheist, Chet Atkins, The Beatles, David Bowie, Broadcast, Jeff Buckley, Carcass, The Catherine Wheel, The Church, Cindytalk, The Constantines, The Cranes, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Jim Croce, The Dears, DFA 1979, John Denver, Devo, Neil Diamond, Disharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Dolby, Dream City Film Club, Ec8or, Fields of the Nephilim, Gin Blossoms, Michael Gira, Godflesh, Hall and Oates, Mark Hollis, Idaho, Impetigo, In the Nursery, Iron Maiden, Jesu, The Jesus and Mary Chain

Elton John (70s only), Joy Division, Junior Boys, The Knife, Mark Kozelek, Kronos Quartet, Lush, Merzbow, The Microphones, Mogwai, The Monkees, Mono No Aware, Mum, Nico, Billy Ocean, Paradise Lost, Pinetop Seven, Prince, Rechenzentrum, Ride, Rosewater Elizabeth, Nina Simone, Slowdive, Soulwhirlingsomewhere, Suicide, This Mortal Coil, Throbbing Gristle, The Tindersticks, Ulver, Venom, Clara Ward, Winterkalte, Woven Hand, Xiu Xiu, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Soul, Classical

Movies:

A film that sets the standard:

SOME DIRECTORS: Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Shinji Aoyama, Ingmar Bergman, Walerian Borowczyk, Stan Brakhage, Luis Buñuel, David Cronenberg, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Claire Denis, Kim Ki-Duk, Sergei Eisenstein, Federico Fellini, Kinji Fukasaku, Michael Haneke, Alfred Hitchcock, Katsuhito Ishii, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Akira Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takashi Miike, Lukas Moodysson, Yasujiro Ozu, Chan-Wook Park, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Seijun Suzuki, Andrei Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr, Lars Von Trier

A few films that I love:

Television:

The Amazing Race, Cowboy Bebop, Cromartie High School, FLCL, Freaks and Geeks, The L-Word, Naruto, Saved by the Bell, South Park

Books:

Text Books of most Physical and Social Sciences, Military History, Poetry before 1000 AD, SOME AUTHORS: Aristophanes, Isaac Asimov, Richard Dawkins, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Einstein, Mohandas K. Gandhi, William Gibson, Stephen Hawking, Homer, Kenko, Livy, Ovid, Sun Tzu, Vergil, Xenophon

My Blog

Spring Break! You'll see me on Chemistry Teachers Gone Wild!

WordOh yeah, spring break is here! One of the perks of being a teacher is that I get to enjoy the same vacations that my students do. Just to let those of you whom I spend time with know, I will be in...
Posted by Mr. Neil on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:29:00 PST