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Main focus is classical music. Books- fantasy/sci-fi, history, mystery (Elizabeth George, Tony Hillerman, Reginald Hill, Colin Dexter, ...), biographies... (More to add later, getting set up..) (Several of my favorites- Hillerman, Pratchett- have died since I started reading them or even since I wrote this in the last decade...)
Also interested in (expect this list to grow) gryphons (still a member of the Gryphons Guild), computer programming, psychology, civil liberties, left politics, libraries, 20th-century philosophy (Wittgenstein especially but not only), comics (in print and online)
Math- been awhile (this was my major and grad school concentration), but still into what I remember of number theory, combinatorics, especially. Did some work with independence structures/matroids (this has nothing to do with politics, I'm sorry to disappoint, despite my political interests) back in college.
A favorite, favorite quote: <br /><em>Oh, yes. It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.</em> (Rincewind, a Terry Pratchett character, in the novel <b>Sourcery</b>. The quote made by another character, from another POV, in a later novel. Pratchett is high on my list of favorite modern authors...)
Music:<p>I'm a classical-obsessed person. Show-tunes too, started there...
Favorites:
Composers: Beethoven, JS Bach, Mozart, Brahms
Pieces: Beethoven string quartets, Mozart piano concertos, fourth piano sonata by M. Weinberg (Polish-Russian composer 1919-1996, see <a href="http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/vainberg.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/vainberg.htm</a>) from 1955, fourth string quartet by W. Stenhammar, are my favorites, but my almost-favorites become a long list. And I like making lists, and have nothing much else to do... so here's a partial list. (Saving early and saving often in this weather.)
(7-18-06 - hrm, this is getting just-a-bit lengthy. Will change the format a bit in a few ways and move parts of the content to another site later, after I've gotten some more written. Of course for now I have a few more important things to do, like some LilyPond material, university temporary work, and &c.)
Had a lot lengthier descriptions in the B area and under "Medtner" :) , but since this section is limited to 15,000 characters, I'm moving them elsewhere, then abbreviating them and moving them back in when I do not have a (was tearing when I wrote this months back, now another headache, but weaker. Yay cycles- coincidental, not biological ones) headache
Transferring the lists to a blog... (length limit was well exceeded when they were here.)
Tend to do much music writing elsewhere (esp. contributing to articles on Wikipedia - also have written two prefaces to published scores released by Musikproduktion Jurgen Hoflich and have had some brief composer profiles posted to MusicWeb International.</p>
Movies:I haven't seen that many movies more than once. The ones at the top of the list I have; the ones towards the center I probably haven't but still liked far more than enough to include. Not really in a particular order at the moment, though Andrei Rublev is my favorite.(This is old by several years and needs updating. Recentish favorites include "How to Train your Dragon" and "Fantastic Mr. Fox").--Andrei Rublev You Can Count on Me2010Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I always manage to forget how often I've seen this movie, but not the movie itself!)A Mighty WindManufacturing ConsentNaked GunNever Say Never AgainAmazon Women on the MoonAirplane!The IncrediblesO Brother, Where Art Thou?Twelve Angry MenTake the Money and Run (keep meaning to include this one in this list of films I've seen often and enjoyed, keep forgetting it!)2009-2010:-The Fantastic Mr. FoxDespicable MeHow to Train Your Dragon
Movies seen recently enough and recommended:How to Train Your Dragon (2010)Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
"Idols"None. But my family and best friends are my heroes- and if unlike for idols I know that they are made with feet of clay (I'm an atheist but that line is stunning metaphor...) - their work to overcome both their external troubles and their own failings - makes them more the heroes.<br /><br /> The people I list on CT as my family (and the people on MySpace on my front page- I've known those for at least three years, I think...) - are worth at least considering adding, if I may put on the annoying promoter hat.
