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Compton Community College, Attended 1941 - 1963, Class of 1971, Postdoctoral

Petulant Recidivist (seriously).

Fishing, talking smack and Pink Cashmere sweaters (summer weight cashmere).

Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer and Adorno, The Odyssey, E.V. Rieu trans., On Love by Alain De Botton, Dispatches by Michael Herr, The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler, Moneyball by Michael Lewis, The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, Ask the Dust by John Fante.

Mauvais Sang by Leos Carax and Sunrise by F.W. Murnau

Bartok, Big Star, Black Flag, Bowie, Brewer and Shipley, Buck Owens, Can, Carter Family, Cat Stevens, Connie Francis, Elvis Costello, ELO, Eno, Fleetwood Mac, France Gall, Harry Nilsson, Love, Low, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Neu, Pavement, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Early Roxy Music, Frank Sinatra, Serge Gainsbourg, Steve Earle, Tom Waits, Tommy James, Van Morrison, Neil Young and the Dylan

Angels Baseball!

These are things I like, in no order whatsoever: the turbo whine at 5800 rpm on an STI, Doonesbury, Ducati motorcycles, esp. the Multistrada 620, early-1970's National Lampoon, Peanuts (The Comic Strip), Cribbage, watching a lot of footie ball, college hoops, things that go bump in the night, books about Vietnam, drinking port, throwing the elbow and talking trash, cookin' up a storm, post-structuralism, fast cars, rally racing, carbon fiber, sharp knives, purple (as a color and to wear), clean draws, a well-fitting suit, mike and ikes, cookies and pies, very obtuse conversations, pleading the fifth, Cmajor7th, Oral-B Brush Ups, custom-made clothing, dancing to hip-hop with hot Afrikaans girls at the Mystic Boar in Stellenbosch, South Africa, watching the sun come up, poolside, with a bottle of champagne, driving the lane, pushing the buttons, dropping into sixth, powersliding, yo! and, finally, long, long walks off of very short piers. In the last year, I've been to South Africa, Sol Island, North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Reseda, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New York, Montreal and Vancouver, Canada, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin, Germany, the South of France and Florence and Bologna, Italy. I have a lot of frequent flyer miles.

My plan for 2006: Learning to drive anything with wheels and an engine. Anyone got a go-kart or a Cessna?

Here are some of my photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/theguz/

Like long drives to nowhere, going to baseball games, watching the Ponies run and listening to me talk about nothing? Then you're for me!