I mean..of course I am interested in achieving world peace and eradicating poverty..
but I have other interests as well.
I love political debate on issues relating to public policy, IR, Human Rights, Diplomacy
I love to garden...lately I have been interested in organic, heirloom gardens..although, I must admit...gardening can be tricky in a high plains desert.
I am always intrigued by dichotomy...beautiful compositions that seem absurd or grotesque if you take each part individually. Some of the artists I enjoy include Joel Peter Witkin
Rauschenberg, Schiele
de Kooning. Mies van der Rohe, Lalique
To me,the most aesthetically appealing time period of the twentieth century was the 1930s.
I'm more latex than PVC, my favorite animal is a sloth and after the sloth, I love camels. Shakespeare is overrated
I prefer coffee from a can
and I have never seen Titanic (nor do I want to). I recently learned how to play the Udu
and am teaching myself how to play guitar - I am horrible at both. I can't sing to save my life
I am an okay writer, and I do not enjoy swimming in oceans.
Its been 6 years since I last drank alcohol, but now, it seems, I am addicted to black tea.
Before I die, I hope to visit antarctica
and I intend to pretend to grow old gracefully.
"A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity."-
Jimmy Carter
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david sylvian, serge gainsbourg, beach boys, anita lane, swans, christian death, and also the trees, esquivel, nick cave,nick drake, pj harvey, massive attack, kruder and dorfmeister, pixies, aphex twin, iggy pop, portishead, jim reeves, screamin jay hawkins, etta james,james hall band, mazzy star, pink dots, johnny cash. I also love opera, burlesque, music from the 1920s, old bluegrass (lets just say..I have many interests that dont seem like they should go together..I'm a bit weird, okay???)
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To Live, La Muerte de un Burocrata "Death of a Bureaucrat" (1966), Fog of War, Padre Padrone "My Father My Master", Harold and Maude, Six Degrees of Separation, The Hunger, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Camille Claudell, Auntie Mame, House Of Yes, Carnival Of Souls, The Jacket, Solaris
C-SPAN, Meet the Press, Charlie Rose, That 70s Show, Get A Life (anyone who remembers that show and liked it wins a special prize!), Seinfeld, Family Guy, Dr. Katz
Some interests include (but are in no way limited to): "The Future of Freedom" by Fareed Zakaria, Jung, some Bukowski:
Charles Bukowski - Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the...
Kafka, Sartre, Philip K. Dick, Sylvia Plath, Gore Vidal, Henry Miller,....
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November 1937-November 2002