might as well do my own survey:)


Subject: might as well do my own survey:)
From: Gene (pariah1980@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 21:13:32 GMT


1) 10 of your favorite authors and/or books
-Dostoyevsky (read "Crime and Punishment", almost done
with "Brothers Karamazov", and have read most of
"Notes from Underground")
-"Deconstruction in Context and Literature"(a
deconstructionist look at works by people like Hegel,
Nietzsche, Kant, Heidegger, etc....) forgot who the
editor was.
-"Soul Mountain" by Gao Xingjian(the 2000 winner of
the Nobel prize in literature, a Chinese
dissident/playwright/author/poet etc.. who fled
oppression in literature in China and now lives in
France)
-"Go Tell it on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
-"The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex
Haley
-plays by Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, George
Bernard Shaw, etc...
-"How to Talk Dirty and Influence People" by Lenny
Bruce
-"The Trial of Socrates" edited by Stone. a look at
the trial and life of Socrates w/ comparisons to Homer
and other writers of his time
-"Plato's The Republic and other Works"
-"The Inferno" by Dante Aligheri(want to read the rest
of the Divine Comedy)
-"The Portable Machiavelli"

2) 10 albums you can't live w/o(name of artist and
album please)

"Pre-emptive Strike" by DJ Shadow
"R U Still Down?" by Tupac Shakur
"DubNoBassWithMyHeadMan" by Underworld
"Black on Both Sides" by Mos Def
and the album by Black Star(Mos Def w/ Talib Kweli;
also stuff by Lyricist Lounge, Sound Bombing,
Reflection Eternal, etc...)
nearly anything by A Tribe Called Quest
"Check Your Head" by the Beastie Boys
anything by Radiohead
anything by Nine Inch Nails
"White Pony" by the Deftones
"Slanted and Enchanted" by Pavement
"The Marshall Mathers LP" by Eminem
the Ramones
the Clash
Rage Against the Machine

3) 10 of the best movies you can think of.
"Lenny" w/ Dustin Hoffman
"The Icestorm"
"Buffalo 66"
"Gridlocked"
"The Deer Hunter"(though I only just saw the opening
30 or 40 min. today)
"The Evil Dead" trilogy
"Night of the Living Dead"(old black and white
version)
"Leaving Las Vegas"
"Malcolm-X"
"On the Waterfront"
"American History-X"
"Life"

3) favorite place you've travelled to.
 New York City, Puerto Vallarta(Mexico), South Korea,
Colorodo

4) Gore, Bush, Nader, Buchanan, or other? or none of
the above? lol
Not sure, I tend to lean more towards Gore, but
there's things I like and dislike about both, I was
disappointed that Nader didn't get his 5% of the votes
needed for more federal funding

5) astrological sign(hey, I'm curious lol)
Cancer

6) if you were reincarnated as an animal, which one
would it be?

definately a bird of some sort

7) are you Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Agnostic,
> Hindu, Buddhist, Athiest, Agnostic, non-practicing,
etc... etc...?(if you can't decide, do you believe in
things like an afterlife, God(s), etc...?)

Agnostic with a slight bias towards all forms of
Christianity, but I like to study about Islam,
Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc... etc...

8) favorite work by J.D. Salinger
"Franny and Zooey" and "For Esme: With Love and
Squalor"

9) character you most identify with in Salinger's
works

not sure, some of them would be Holden Caulfield,
Phoebe Caulfield, Zooey Glass(though I'm no Zooey
lol), Franny Glass, the guy in the "A Perfect Day for
Bananafish" story, etc...

Gene:)

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