Doug

exec/musician/wannabe sommelier

literature, languages, food, wine, music, running, italian, french, art, film, t ravel, small bits of string, neologisms, being silly

Borges-Collected Fictions; Eco-The Name of the Rose; Bulgakov-Master & Margarita; Joyce-Ulysses; Faulkner; fumetti; bandes dessinees

The Third Man, The Princess Bride, Picnic at Hanging Rock, the Seven Samurai, Harold and Maude, Tampopo, Alien, Metropolis, Pandora's Box, The Kingdom, lots of Fellini

The Beatles, John Coltrane, Stevie Wonder, The Meters, Cannonball Adderley, Johnny Cash, Paolo Conte, Portishead, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, Damien Jurado, Miles Davis, Karlheinz Stockhausen

don't watch TV! but on DVD I have a lot of South Park, Simpsons, old Monty Python, Black Adder, the Saint... and Land of the Lost. Oh, yeah, recently grabbed by The Office, Phoenix Nights.

I am fascinated by random things, from the story of the
13th-century
assassination of Pope Celestine V, to the word for cheese in
Hungarian,
to the history of Dada and the etymology of the word 'sarcasm.'

I really really dig languages, books, art, music, and film.
I love to make
music, from raucous squeaks, growls and squonks to that
visceral funky
thang. Sometimes I like to write, but as you see, I have
this problem with
prolixity!

I run on the beach and play in the water. I love to
discover far-flung
places and new, mouthfilling words like "unnepeket" and
"pianerottolo." I
love to go out on the town, get tasty food and wine, and
see great
music, whether it be greasy funk or twelve-tone opera. But I
also love to
spend a cozy night at home reading, or cooking up a tasty
meal with my
best friends. I make mean hushpuppies (yes, I have a deep
fryer! mmm,
mmm, good!)