Jade Comfort

Cooper City High School, Attended 1994 - 1997

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Attended 1997 - 2001, Bachelor's Degree, Physics

physicist / linguist / gypsy

literature, film, theater, art in its every incarnation, climbing, chomsky, linguistics, arabic, russian, german, ghulfan, photography, old radio shows (eg. Paul Temple) new radio shows (eg. This American Life), poetry, cooking, eating, and other delights of the senses

a hero of our time, lolita, crime and punishment, narcissus and goldmund, the portrait of dorian gray, despair, death in venice, guns germs and steel, middlesex, the professor and the madman, the confessions of felix krull, 100 years of solitude, schachnovelle, die augen des ewigen bruders, the stranger, asleep, breif einer unbekanntin, terese raquin, anna karenina, in praise of the stepmother, the great gatsby, the meaning of night, etc...

manhattan, black cat white cat, the killing, cabaret, delicatessen, hable con ella, lola rennt, indiana jones, primal fear, jean de florette, noi albinoi, gegen die wand, the best of youth, 3 iron, the thomas crown affair (the old one with steve mcqueen), body heat, the player, kontroll, the lives of others, what ever happened to baby jane, together, the big heat, The Triplets of Belleville, In the heat of the night, misc Bergman, the diving bell and the butterfly, etc...

chopin, tom waits, sex pistols, dylan, laurie anderson, moby, paul simon, ladysmith, screamin jay, st germain, chet baker, nina simone, dirty dozen, rebirth, ton stein scherben, visotski, motown, violent femmes, velvet underground, morphine, stevie wonder, al green, earth wind and fire, janis joplin, the white stripes, m ward, gorillaz, the doors, lou reed, pixies, iron & wine, manu chao, buena vista social club, i am kloot, REM, Prince, Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones, donny hathaway, jeff buckley, betty davis, etc...

six feet under, sopranos, ifc, sundance channel, bravo, the riches, house, CBS Sunday Morning (I'm a TV addict but I don't have a TV)

I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me. I don't consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine (I am well-educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). No, I refuse to consult a doctor out of spite. That you probably will not understand. Well, I understand it. Of course, I can't explain who it is precisely that I am injuring in this case by my spite: I know perfectly well that I am certainly not giving the doctors a 'dirty deal' by not seeking treatment; I know better than anyone that by all this I am only harming myself and no one else. But still, if I don't consult a doctor it is out of spite. My liver is bad, well--let it get worse!

anyone