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Kaivon

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About Me

I'm in a neuroscience Ph.D program at Brown University in Providence, RI. My main research interests are timing, movement representation, and the neural control of artifical limbs.
I'm organizing a Lindsay Lohan film retrospective for next year's TriBeCa film festival. As the cat mentions below, I've been invited to her 21st bday.

My Interests

My new New Boom Action league (aka, "chairsketball"). The brain, reading (mainly nonfiction and poetry), classical and jazz, playing and watching baseball (Red Sox), politics, philosophy, cooking, and cats.

I'd like to meet:

Aristotle & Ayn Rand; Many musicians (Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff); Newton, Darwin; The founding fathers; Alive: Theodore Dalrymple, Bear Grylls

Music:

Dvorak's 'American' string quartet and 'New World' symphony - Mozart's clarinet quintet - Coltrane and Hartman - Rachmaninoff - Sinatra - Amanda Marshall's 'Marry Me' - 'Purple Rain' - Miles - Chet Baker - Timberlake - Bjork - 'Come Clean' - Bach - Beethoven's late string quartets - Ravel's piano concerto for the left hand - 'Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune' and 'Claire de lune' - 'Pictures at an exhibition' - Tony Bennett - Joni Mitchell's 'A Case of You' - 'La Vie en Rose' - Etta James - Callas - 'Tristan und Isolde' - Puccini - 'Lucia di Lammermoor' - Masada -

Movies:

Twelve Angry Men, High Noon, October Sky, Dr. Zhivago, Casablanca, The Pursuit of Happyness, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen

Television:

Red Sox and Patriots games, professional darts, Myth Busters, Modern Marvels, The Office, Man vs. Wild

Books:

The Fountainhead, Life at the Bottom, Crime and Punishment, The Evidence of the Senses, the one I'm writing