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Israel Mendoza

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



Music:

Opera, bossa nova, mambo, jazz, enrico caruso, antonio carlos jobim, julio jaramillo, mf doom, perez prado, amon tobin, cujo, kruder & dorfmeister, and one of my favorite trumpet players Lee Morgan. AND FUCK IT I LIKE PUNK AGAIN

Movies:

Ran, Abre Los Ojos, A Clock Orange, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Ahi Esta el Detalle (ANYTHING by CANTINFLAS who has been described "variably" as danger to Mexican society, a bourgeois puppet, a kind philantropist, a venture capitalist, a transgressor of gender roles, a pious Catholic, a verbal innovator, and a picaresque underdog.

Television:

CSPAN2, mxc (WOW THE NEW MXC IS AMAZING, they managed to make it wittier, andt heyre even political! im watching it right now, definitely highly recommended, for american tv anyway) replay/top 10 most painful eliminations specifically, CANTINFLAS HISTORY LESSONS en las mananas

Books:

The classics: Wittgenstein's The Philosophical Investigations, Dostoevsky's Crime and Punihsment, Marx's Communist Manifesto, Smith's Wealth of Nations, Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature etc...