PHILOSOPHY

You don't choose the theme, but you do choose how it's developed.

Interests

Encountering new art and people, debating the future of mankind over tea or whiskey, shutting up, cracking the code of the perfect rock record, Scrabble.

• arts
• coding

Music, Movies, and Books

The Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Sunset Rubdown, CocoRosie, Michael Jackson, The The, David Bowie, Radiohead, The Empty Mirror, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Paul Hindemith, Frederic Chopin.

My Dinner with Andre, High Noon, Before Sunset, Dr. Strangelove, School of Rock, American Psycho, Wall-E, The President's Analyst, Jurassic Park, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Money Masters, The Prestige, Kurosawa's Dreams.

The Gay Science, The Tao Te Ching, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development, Moby Dick, Franny and Zooey, The World as Will and Representation, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Rilke, Emerson, Plath, Bishop, Yeats.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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