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About Me

A work in progress.

My Interests

Books, movies and music - most of my waking life is spent on one of the three. Other interests are history, philosophy, politics... just about anything, really.

I'd like to meet:

This guy -

Music:

Everything except country and rap. I have a fondness for classical and movie scores...

John Williams

Jerry Goldsmith

John Barry

Basil Poledouris

Bill Conti

Alex North

Dr. Miklos Rozsa

Bernard Herrmann (pictured with Orson Welles)

Elmer Bernstein
And many more...

Movies:

In no particular order - Spartacus, Star Wars, Seven Samurai, Black Narcissus, Rififi, Once Upon A Time In the West, Ikiru, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Jaws, Vertigo, Wicker Man, Les Bonnes Femmes, Best Years Of Our Lives, Citizen Kane, East of Eden, The Great Santini, Shadow of a Doubt, Ben-Hur, King Kong (1933), The Big Heat, Metropolis... the list is endless!
Favorite directors -

Akira Kurosawa

Francois Truffaut

Elia Kazan

John Ford

Stanley Kubrick

Sidney Lumet

Television:

M.A.S.H.
Classic Star Trek

St. Elsewhere

Firefly

Nip / Tuck

Rome

The Incredible Hulk

The Flash...

Family Guy...
I haven't watched television in 7 years, and I'm much happier. I read more, I write more, and when I decide to watch something, it's a DVD or VHS. No commercials, reality shows or channel surfing!

Books:

Too many to list, but some favorite writers are -

W. Somerset Maugham
D.H. Lawrence, Fydor Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare (of course), Aristotle, Homer, Epictetus, Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Hemingway, Machiavelli, Tom Wolfe, Kate Chopin, J.D. Salinger, Edgar Allan Poe

Ray Bradbury
Kipling, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mickey Spillane, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, Mario Puzo...

Pat Conroy

John Irving
But without a doubt, my favorite book is Of Human Bondage. With each passing year, I find more and more truth in it. It's my Bible.
If you haven't read it, go get it - NOW.

Heroes:

Perhaps, on my deathbed, myself - we'll see!

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My Blog

Amnesty opinions

As those of you who keep up with current events already know, a new deal is being considered by our government which would overhaul our deeply flawed immigration program, eventually granting U.S. citi...
Posted by Aram on Mon, 21 May 2007 01:23:00 PST

Way to go, George

As an Armenian, I find this particularly offensive. President George Bush, in his annual April 24 speech, did not use the word "genocide" when referring to the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. ...
Posted by Aram on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:00:00 PST

NBC scrambles to rationalize their decision

Amazingly, the president of NBC tried defending his decision to release Cho Seung-Hui's "press kit" in an interview by saying that he only released a portion of the material. Here's a quote - "This ...
Posted by Aram on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:55:00 PST

Virginia, NBC, etc.

By now, most of you are probably aware that NBC received a "press kit" in the mail from Cho Seung-Hui, who brutally shot and killed 32 of his fellow classmates and teachers at The Virginia Polytechnic...
Posted by Aram on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:35:00 PST

Now THIS is more like it

It pleases me to say that NBC has taken a certain amount of flack for releasing Cho Seung Hui's "press kit." The Virginia police made a public statement expressing their displeasure, and several of t...
Posted by Aram on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:09:00 PST