CURRENT MISSION

Explore life, understand the human condition and the universe

Interests

Philosophy, History, Literature, Algebraic Topology, Group Theory, Number Theory; Evolutionary Biology, Cosmology, Anthropology, Theoretical Physics, Literary Theory, The Battle of Isandlwana, The Isle of Man, Alchemy, Hermetic Philosophy, Dreamtime, Antarctic Geopolitics, Taikyoku Shogi, Poetry, The Zanj Rebellion, Indigenous Peoples, Nonlinear Narrative, the German Peasants' War

• literature
• poetry
• anthropology
• biology
• geopolitics
• history
• physics

Music, Movies, and Books

Love Joyce, Nabokov, Eco, Marquez, Pynchon, Tolkien. Listening to the Arcade Fire and Mahler a lot recently. Movies: Woody Allen, Almodóvar, Altman, PT and Wes Anderson, Bergman, Coens, Cronenberg, Cuaron, Eastwood, Fellini, Gilliam, Godard, Haneke, Herzog, Chuck Jones, Kubrick, Kurosawa, Lean, Leone, Lynch, Malick, Payne, Polanski, Scorsese, Welles, Wong Kar-wai

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I climbed Mount Snaefell on the Isle of Man just in time to watch the sunset and see the lights come on simultaneously in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United States