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Fast facts

• At the movies I like to see:subtitles, apparently: the last three movies have all been foreign films (Spanish, French & German, respectively)-- though I did not plan it that way...
• Last movie seen:The Reader, No Country for Old Men, The Lives of Others (German, w/English subtitles), Pan's Labyrinth (Mexico, in Spanish)
• Music I listen to:Emmylou Harris, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson, Kate Bush, Joe Ely, the late "Snakefinger" Philip Lithman, old John Hiatt & Declan McManus, etc.
• Best album right now:I'm an OG, so I really don't listen to anything that appears on Billboard...
• Favorite author:Fyodor Dostoyevski, Federico Garcia Lorca, Theodore Adorno, Edith Wharton, Robinson Jeffers, Stephen Jay Gould
• Last book read:Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The Cold 5000, Glitz, The Last Election, Blindness (Jose Saramago), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Creation (Gore Vidal), Name of the Rose, Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed), Cuba Libre (Elmore Leonard), Heart of Darknes
• Best game right now:semiotics (a puzzle), cacophany society, hoaxes: zapmeals.com (fake Web 2.0 startup) and the JT Leroy hoax
• Favorite sports team:Cal Bears, Oakland A's
• I'm passionate about:finding love in this world
• I wish I could:see above (work on stuff I like-- WHEN I like)
• Favorite travel destination:Reality (it's a nice place to visit, etc.)
• On my vacation I..:vacation? you mean when I'm not working? (never happens), or when I'm not getting paid for it? (which is MOST of the time)...
• If I won 1 million dollars, I would:buy a house, buy music equipment & top 'o the line computer, work on stuff I like-- WHEN I like... write a screenplay-- who the hell knows???
• If I were a super hero I would:not advertise the fact
• Fashion I rather not see again:Flock 'o Seagulls AeroDynamic hair, and 70s Disco attire
• I want my coffee..:freakin' NOW!!!
• Food I like:anything equatorial (carribean/cajun, thai, middle-eastern/north african, etc)
• I don't like:being condescended to by lower life forms
• Software I use:Firebug for Firefox, EditPlus (primarily, for for HTML, CSS, PHP and javascript), Macromedia MX2004 studio, Photoshop, various database programs, etc.
• Hardware I use:Compaq Pesario, AMD 64 x2 w/nVidia, 1gb RAM, Nikon D40 Camera
• I discovered My Opera from:downloading Opera browser

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