Mike

INTERESTS

• Interests: Art, architecture, movies, politics, science, nanotechnology, cosmology, evolution, transhumanism, history, wine, baseball, science fiction, Kubrick, Hitchcock, Buster Keaton, Kurosawa, Bunuel, Godard, Sartre, Fromm, existentialism, introspection, human rights, altruism, optimism, idealism
• Favorite Music: Jazz, blues, grunge, classic rock, classic country, baroque, classical, bluegrass, big band
• Favorite Movies: It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca, The Seventh Seal, The Godfather I/II, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Wizard of Oz, Red Beard, Singin' in the Rain, Sunrise, Children of Paradise, Intolerance, Gone With the Wind, The General, Sullivan's Travels, Vertigo, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Night of the Shooting Stars, Some Like It Hot, Sunset Blvd., Grand Illusion, The Crowd, Rules of the Game
• Favorite Books: Top 10 novels: - Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain - All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque - Ragtime, by E.L. Doctorow - The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester - A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole - The Source, by James Michener - Things as They Are, by Paul Horgan - The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair - Diaspora, by Greg Egan - The Years of Rice and Salt, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Favorite Quotes: "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." - Philo of Alexandria | "When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called religion" - Robert Pirsig | "Things not only could be worse, they always were." - David Brin