sputnik-7

Gender: Male

Age: 31

City: Bethlehem

State: PENNSYLVANIA

Occupation: freelance writer, radio programmer, bookseller, philosopher king

Hobbies: Writing, collecting music, books and comics, radio programming, radio broadcasting, home recording, trying to cook better, noodling with my computer

Fav. Music: Miles Davis, Paul Westerberg, Bob Mould, Paul Weller, Thelonious Monk, Robyn Hitchcock, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Joy Division/New Order, Tom Waits, The Beatles, Wayne Shorter, J.S. Bach, Gustav Holst, Black Flag, Aretha Franklin, Rush, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Tom Verlaine, Talking Heads, the Lurkers, any jazz on the Prestige label, etc.

Fav. Movies: Billy Wilder's "The Apartment"; Terry Gilliam's "The Fisher King"; Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" and "GoodFellas"; Bob Rafelson's "Five Easy Pieces"; Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" and the "Godfather" trilogy (yes, even Part III); Akira Kurosawa's "Madadayo" and "Derzu Uzala"; Louis Malle's "My Dinner with Andre"; John Ford's "The Quiet Man"; Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window"; Robert Redford's "A River Runs through It"; Bryan Singer's "X2: X-Men United"; George R. Hill's "The Sting" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"; anything with Sean Connery (even when his films suck, his acting is always entertaining)

Fav. Books: "Cat's Eye" & "Wilderness Tips" by Margaret Atwood; "Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly" by Anthony Bourdain; "The Alienist," Caleb Carr; "Catherdral" by Raymond Carver; "Celebration" by Harry Crews; "Travels" by Michael Crichton; "Drown" by Junot Diaz; "The White Album" by Joan Didion; "An Edge in My Voice" & "Angry Candy" by Harlan Ellison; "Mississippi Solo: A River Quest" & "Still Life in Harlem" by Eddy L Harris; "Night and the City" by Gerald Kersh; "Bag of Bones" & "It" by Stephen King; "Confessions of a Mask" by Yukio Mishima; "Vineland" by Thomas Pynchon; "Black Coffee Blues" & "Get in the Van: On the Road with Black Flag" by Henry Rollins; "Cat's Cradle" & "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr; "The Night in Question" by Tobias Wolff

Fav. TV shows: Not really a TV person, sorry.

Fav. website: http://www.allmusic.com