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alex

sneakers are for sneaking

About Me

i have a nice scarf. i am good with dogs and kids. i can hear silent dog whistles - really. i like dead languages and russian folktales.

My Interests

the topology of knots, minimalist design, the power to turn invisible (for sneaking), anterograde amnesia, synaptic gaps, zeno's paradoxes, the yelps of david lee roth

I'd like to meet:

jane goodall. but a bit younger.

Music:

the homosexuals, shostakovich, secret chiefs 3, harry partch, mike post (the guy who wrote the theme to the A-team), bartok, steve reich, charles ives, skip james, guns and roses, those weird dada poems of kurt schwitters

Movies:

red desert, five easy pieces, time bandits, hiroshima mon amore, the lost boys, 12 angry men, la jetee, seven samurai, time indefinite, when the day breaks, badlands

Television:

amazing stories, street hawk, heat vision and jack (an unaired pilot starring jack black and ron silver)

Books:

the invention of memory by israel rosenfeld tender buttons by gertrude stein lost languages: the enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts

Heroes:

oliver sacks, bertrand russell, al franken, tony soprano