Michael Vivar

Anti-money-laundering consultant? Adm. Stockdale?!

Writing for www.pittsburghdish.com, Anti Globalization, Mexican War Streets, Depressing German Opera, Asian Underground, Sophisticated Humor, Poop Jokes, Philippines, Needle Exchange, Bisexual, World Cup Football, Boxing, Hong Kong, Britpop, Goth Industrial, Munich, Hunter S. Thompson, Prague, Rotterdam, Wong Kar Wai, Glenfiddich, trance music, Literary Non-Fiction, Haruki Murakami, Journalism, Pittsburgh and national politics, saving the world, kicking hippies

The Professor and the Madman, Things Fall Apart, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Godel Escher Bach, The Passion (Jeanette Winterson), Sputnik Sweetheart, Noli Me Tangere, Griffin and Sabine, Hyperspace (Michio Kaku), Confederacy of Dunces, History of Sexuality (Foucault), Transmetropolitan, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!, Marabou Stork Nightmares, Under the Banner of Heaven, Revolt of the Cockroach People, Live from Death Row, Before Night Falls, Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, Skinny Legs and All, Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lamb, Anything We Love Can be Saved, Sandman, The Brothers K, Tetherballs of Bougainesville, Confederacy of Dunces, El Filibusterismo, Shake Hands with the Devil, Flashman, A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian, Tamerlane, Bastard of Istanbul. Magazines: The Economist, Atlantic Monthly, Mental Floss, New Yorker

In the Mood For Love, Grave of the Fireflies, Man Bites Dog, Labyrinth, Bamboozled, Sin City, The Long Engagement, Brokeback Mountain, Far Away So Close!, Trainspotting, Celluloid Closet, A Day at the Races, The Long Engagement, Shallow Grave, After Life, Fresh, Triplets of Belleville, When the Cat's Away, 9/11, The Wedding Banquet, Naked, Brazil, Millenium Actress, Happy Together, Faust, Requiem For A Dream, The Sweet Hereafter, The Seven Samurai, Ararat, Fast Cheap and Out of Control, Storm Over Asia, Yi Yi, My Neighbor Totoro, Withnail &; I, Zatoichi, High Fidelity, Bubble Boy (SHUT UP!), A Room With a View, Children of Men, Scratch, Fog of War, Pan's Labyrinth, Amandla!, Farewell My Concubine

Portishead, The Smiths, Pulp, St. Germain, The Pixies, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Talib Kweli, Sleater-Kinney, Belle and Sebastian, Joy Division, Underworld, Tori Amos, VNV Nation, Magnetic Fields, Kinky, Leonard Cohen, DJ Shadow, Bach, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Control Machete, Asian Dub Foundation, Vivaldi, Aisha Kandisha, Buddha Bar, Teagan and Sarah, Rachmaninoff, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Stereolab, RZA, Rilo Kiley, Elvis Costello, Solesides, Silent League, Postal Service, Zero 7, Ani Difranco, DJ Dan, Velvet Underground, Ella Fitzgerald, Juno Reactor, Arcade Fire, Punjabi MCs, Miles Davis, New York Dolls, Casey Chambers, Charles Mingus, Fela Kuti, David Bowie, Utah Phillips, PJ Harvey

Meet the Press, Young Ones, Nova, Frontline, Black Adder, Independent Lens, any documentary by Ken Burns or Rick Sebak. Radio shows: This American Life, From the Top, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, The Splendid Table

Scorpio

"The pedigree of the primary entity, Michael Vivar, appears to be quite uncertain. The counter-parties with whom he interacts are a seemingly motley rogue gallery of individuals with questionable moral character. Due to apparent idiocy and general weirdness, one might recommend further review and a possible SAR." In New York for 6 months to make the filthy lucre. Missing Katie and Pittsburgh. As someone who's not me said, "It's not what you're like, but what you like." You could mete out an opinion about me based on my tastes indicated. You'd probably be perfectly right as well as monstrously wrong. Here for conversation. I've a voracious appetite for scotch, scintillating interaction, cultural theory, fighting injustice with words and fists, and enjoying, debunking, and vomiting over popular culture. No time for being aloof anymore. Working on a bastard house my lady love and I just bought.

Holy crap! I'm all kinds of married! I'll post pics soon.