"The world is my country, all humankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion." I'm sort of like a globe-trotting Encyclopedia Brown...but older, and with fewer mysteries to solve. I dig traveling, learning, building walls out of empty Pocky boxes, investigating intriguing phenomena, secular humanism, skepticism, Scrabble, films, Beard Papa , theobroma cacao (and I ain't talking about that American chocolate that tastes like wax), yum cha, Chano's Mexican cuisine (any kind of food, actually. I'm down with the Chowhounds . My retired life seems to revolve around where my next meal is coming from and how good it's going to taste), history, art, linguistics, diving, photography, painting, absinthe, KCRW, my new hybrid car.
Now accepting applications: potential candidates for positions in either my female bodyguard/assassination squad or my male personal army. Prior experience as a ninja or guang hu warrior preferred. Must be enthusiastic, loyal, and able to follow orders without question.
Hip-Hop, downtempo, house, turntablism, jungle, classical, electronica, exotica, eclectica, etcetera.
Kung Fu Hustle, Survive Style 5+, Oldboy, Shimotsuma monogatari, Finding Neverland, The Graduate, Wild Style, The Harder They Come, House of Flying Daggers, Baraka, Hero, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cidade de Deus, Fist of Legend, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hidden Fortress, Lost in Translation, The Big Lebowski, Chungking Express, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Drunken Master II, Y tu mamá también, Amélie, Shaolin One, The Iron Giant, Run Lola Run, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Yojimbo/Sanjuro, Il Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Bottle Rocket, The Party, Swordsman II
"I want to be...on an island -- without Ricardo Montalban. No more TV, no fantasy. I just want to be me..."The revolution will not be televised...in the meantime I'll watch Nova.
The Razor's Edge, Ishmael, Musashi, A People's History of the United States, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Age of Reason, Norwegian Wood, South of the Border, West of the Sun, Lies My Teacher Told Me, FRUITS, Siddhartha, Sand and Foam, Lonely Planet Guidebooks, Les Miserables, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Count of Monte Cristo, In the Heart of the Sea, Into Thin Air, The Tao of Pooh, The Buddha of Suburbia, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Guns, Germs & Steel, Fast Food Nation, A Million Little Pieces, The English Patient, Giant Robot. Currently reading: The Lonely Planet Japanese Phrasebook.
Shih Kien, Wong Fei Hung, Fong Sai Yuk, Carl Sagan