About us

Books:
the adventures of huckleberry finn, brave new world, call it sleep, godel escher bach, the great gatsby, hamlet, i married a communist, little miss greedy, lord jim, mrs dalloway, metamagical themas, on the shape of mathematical arguments, one hundred years of solitude, orlando, portnoy's complaint, predicate calculus and program semantics, the prince and the pauper, the romantic generation, the scarlet letter, the shrinking of treehorn, sonata forms, slaughterhouse five, tess of the d'urbervilles, treehorn's wish

Interests:
alphabetization, animation, art (history), backgammon, bigball, boggle, bored games, braces, calculational mathematics, cats, comedy, computer science, computing science, cooking, criticism, cryptic crosswords, (digital) photography, directing, dogs, dvorak (the keyboard layout), film noir, filmwatching, fred rogers, games, graph theory, hair, harpsichord, hungarian, infectious mononucleosis, inside jokes, journalism, knitting, libertarianism, linguistics, literature, massage, math, mathematical methodology, model theory, molluscum, moviemaking, music cognition, music theory, naps, the new yorker, pedagogy, piano, ping-pong, plays, poetry, pondering, pool, psychology, puzzles, racquetball, rap, (red) wine, religion, salvador dali, sports, swimming, teaching, (ultimate) frisbee, whisk(e)y, word play (especially changing As to 1s), writing, parentheses

Movies:
akira kurosawa (everything), alfred hitchcock (everything), charles chaplin (the gold rush, the circus, city lights, modern times, the great dictator), christopher nolan (everything), coen brothers (everything), david lynch (mulholland drive, twin peaks), david mamet (glengarry glenross, state and main), francis ford coppola (apocalypse now, the conversation, the godfather 1 & 2), howard hawks (everything), paul thomas anderson (everything, especially punch-drunk love), stanley kubrick (everything), quentin tarantino (everything);

adaptation, amadeus (not the director's cut), batman (60's), the bridge on the river kwai, twelve monkeys, network, the office, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, coupling, citizen kane, donnie darko, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fight club, forrest gump, josie and the pussycats, lost in translation, mean girls, pee wee's big adventure, raging bull, raise the red lantern, rocky, the royal tenenbaums, schindler's list, the silence of the lambs, taxi driver, tommy boy, total recall

Music:
albeniz, bach, bartok, beethoven, boulez, cage, chopin, de falla, debussy, granados, janacek, ligeti, liszt, mahler, montsalvatge, mozart, schoenberg, schubert, schumann, stravinsky, webern,

art hodes, bill evans, billie holiday, chet baker, clifford brown, dave brubeck, ella fitzgerald, fred astaire, john coltrane, miles davis, nat king cole, oscar peterson, sarah vaughan,

aesop rock, air, barry white, beatles, beach boys, beck, ben folds (five), billy joel, bob dylan, bobby hebb, breeders, burt bacharach, coasters, creedence clearwater revival, dan bejar, destroyer, doors, elton john, eminem, foreign born, gorillaz, green day, jimmie rodgers, jimmy cliff, johnny cash, led zeppelin, manu chao, minibosses, moldy peaches, muckafurgason, nine inch nails, nirvana, parka 3, pink floyd, pointer sisters, postal service, radiohead, raffi, rolling stones, simon and garfunkel, tori amos, u2, volcano i'm still excited!!

Television:
american dad, aeon flux, coupling (bbc), curb your enthusiasm, the electric company, family guy, kids in the hall, mister rogers' neighborhood, the office, the simpsons, twin peaks