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MCC

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About Me

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My Interests

Homosexuality, Philosophy (of Quantum Theory, Special and General Relativity, the Greeks, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Kant and Hegel), Indian Philosophy (esp. Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism), Philosophical Cinema, reading, conversations of depth, teaching philosophy

Music:

I here list composers or bands or performers: de Machaut, Palestrina, Lassus, Monteverdi, Froberger, Purcell, Bach (both Johann Sebastian and C. P. E.), Mozart (the later quartets, piano sonatas, and other chamber works like the trio "Kegelstatt"), Beethoven (esp. the later quartets & piano sonatas), Rossini (esp. "Petite Messe Solennelle"), Verdi (Otello, Requiem), Mahler (e.g. "Song of the Earth"), Stravinsky, Poulenc (esp. "Gloria"), Shostakovitch, Flaming Lips, The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, Radiohead, Yo La Tengo, M83, Bonnie Prince Billy, Nick Drake, Sigur Ros, Miles Davis, Ellington, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Movies:

In Order: (1a) My Dinner With Andre (1b) Wings of Desire (Die Himmel uber Berlin), (2) The Enigma of Kaspar Houser (Jeder fur sich und Gott gegen alle), (3) Blade Runner, (4a) Grey Gardens (4b) Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete, (5) Jacob's Ladder, (6) Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, (7) Truffeaut's La Nuit americaine (Day for night), (8) Harold and Maude, (9) Hitchcock's Rear Window, (10) Ashby's Being There

Television:

"blank screen of nothingness", episodes 1 through infinity

Books:

Dogen's Shobogenzo, Watt's Way of Zen, Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasparlenspiel), Mann's Magic Mountain (Zauberberg),