Was paid little to work with something I love, though that didn't last long.
Between undergraduate and graduate school.
Fanatic for playing and watching sports that I'm no good at.
Out of shape outdoorsman.
Work and study: Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Czech Republic, Poland, Czech, Polish, ordering books, selling books, translating books, phenomenology, personalism, Jan Patocka, Robert Sokolowski, Edmund Husserl, TGM, Vaclav Havel, democratization, philsophy and politics, literature and politics
Play: beer, Czech beer, Polish vodka, Danish beer, good beer, did I mention beer, soccer, USSoccer, Seattle Sounders, Sounders, ECS, SK Slavia Praha, basketball, Husky hoops, Seattle SuperSonics, football, UW, Texas, University of Washington, University of Texas, Longhorns, Huskies, Seattle Seahawks, Houston Oilers (RIP), hiking, birdwatching, Katamari Damacy
Friends, people who could school me at hoops or soccer, that sort of thing.
Classical: The Three Bs (Bach, Beethoven, Buxtehude), William Byrd, Petr Eben, Henryk Gorecki, Mozart, Carl Nielsen, Arvo Part, Thomas Tallis, John Tavener
Everything else: Belle and Sebastian, Bratri Ebenove, British Sea Power, Cake, Captain Tractor, Great Big Sea, Hradistan, Johnny Cash, Johnsmith, Kansas, Kraftwerk, Bill Mallonee, NERD, Oasis, Pedro the Lion, REM, Stan Rogers, They Might Be Giants, U2, Vigilantes of Love, Warsaw Village Band
Sleeper, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, Love and Death, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Dekalog, Colors Trilogy, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Closely Watched Trains, Rozmarne leto, Zapomenute svetlo, Je treba zabit Sekala, Structure of Crystals, Lost in Translation, 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, A Christmas Story, Shane, True Grit, North to Alaska, The Lion in Winter, Becket, A Man for All Seasons, This is Spinal Tap, Office Space, Slap Shot, The Big Lebowski
Mission Hill, Venture Bros., Mystery Science Theater 3000, Futurama, Mythbusters, Oregon Field Guide, Outdoor Idaho
Walker Percy, Leszek Kolakowski, Karel Capek, Czeslaw Milosz, Vladimir Voinovich, Ivan Klima, George Steiner, A Confederacy of Dunces, Fever Pitch