Robert Wood

Eastman School of Music, (1997-2001 B.M. Piano Performance)

City University of New York - Graduate School & University C, Attended 2003 - Present, Ph.D., Musicology

grad student, writer

Sierra Club, Society for American Music, American Musicological Society

music, art, film, piano, alphabetization, green tea with toasted rice, aesthetics and philosophy, critical theory, New York in the fall, Wikipedia, sketch comedy, sexy cookware, Marxist tantrums, fantasizing about urban renewal, morning rituals, psychoanalysis, big wooden cameras, campfires, having written something, web design, buying local, microbrewed pale ales, Buddhism/meditation

Disgrace (Coetzee), All Adorno, Invitation to a Beheading, Black Sun (Kristeva), Calvino, Ethics of Psychoanalysis (Lacan), Sentimental Education, Borges, Between East and West (Irigaray), Art as Experience (Dewey), Zen and Japanese Culture, Crime and Punishment, Geneology of Morals, Where the Sidewalk Ends, The Pleasure of the Text, Slowness, Light in August, Mythologies, Benjamin, The Sea Wolf, Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Order of Things, The Count of Monte Cristo, Sphere, The Giving Tree, Bridge to Terabithia

All Woody Allen, Obscure Object of Desire, Fallen Angels, The 400 Blows, In the Mood for Love, The Graduate, The Holy Girl, The General / Buster Keaton, Rear Window, A Woman is a Woman, Jour du fete, George Washington, Through the Olive Trees, The Puppetmaster, Flowers of Shanghai, One Flew Over the Kuckoos Nest, A Night at the Opera, Big Lebowski, Exterminating Angel, Horse Feathers, Lovers on the Bridge, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Vacation, Airplane, Days of Heaven, Sexy Beast, Ran, The Rules of the Game, Raging Bull, 2001, Barry Lyndon, Elephant, Nightmare Before Christmas, Fargo

Beethoven, Dylan, John Tilbury, Sam Cooke, Vijay Iyer, Fennesz, Tom Waits, Zydeco, 2nd Line and other funky New Orleans shit, Rameau et Lully, Marais et Forqueray, Webern, Flatt & Scruggs, Aerosmith, Henry Threadgil, Reverend Gary Davis, Hank Williams, Ligeti, Morton Feldman, Ornette Coleman, Ives, Han Bennink, Phish, Ben Folds, Mahler, Rufus Wainwright, Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, Keith Jarrett, Haydn, Uri Caine, Paul Simon, Brad Meldau, Michiel Braam, Sonny Rollins, Saariaho, Mischa Mengelberg, Berg, James Booker, Stevie Wonder, Schubert, Radiohead, Cake, Palestrina, MC Paul Barman, Bill Frisell, Beatles, Dave Frishberg, Thomas Mapfumo, Gerry Hemingway, Blackalicious, Regina Spektor, C.C.R., Jackie Wilson

Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The State, Seinfeld, Dr. Katz, Conan, Letterman, SNL, The Office, Daily Show, Family Guy, Trigger Happy TV, Frontline, Charlie Rose, Bill Mahar

Polymorphously perverse.

http://www.meltingintoair.net

—people to writhe and read with
—art lovers, art makers, culture takers, unpretentious eccentrics
—Dionysian types, drunk on cool concepts
—idealist-cynics with occasional bouts of pragmatic optimism
—ambivalent people, torn between something and something else, head cases
—people who discard book jackets
—natural nature lovers, fire builders, treehouse dwellers, earth tone wearers