Schwee Michael

University of California - Los Angeles, Attended 1996 - 2004, Class of 2004, Ph.D., Astrophysics
Harvard University, Attended 1992 - 1996, Class of 1996, Bachelor's Degree, Astrophysics

Professor of Astronomy

CRITICAL BRASS

salsa & tango, hiking, jazz, freestyle rhymes, yoga, slanguages, orphan-planet-hunting, travel, puns, parades, animal brotherhood, listening to old people, questions, smoked salmon, infrared radiation, forest canopy, cheesemelt, unclehood, silence, clouds

Cryptonomicon, The Sot Weed Factor, The Onion, The Chosen, The Meme Machine, Oscar Wilde, Ishmael, Gibran, Tolkien, Borges, Feynman, Ayn Rand, I.B. Singer, Krishnamurti, Guns Germs & Steel, Mickey & the Night Kitchen, Miles' Autobiography, Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Zelig, Night on Earth, Finding Forrester, The Sunshine Boys, Bridge on the River Kwai, Shower, Slam, Latcho Drom, Chinatown, Basquiat, The Cruise, Underground, On the Waterfront, Dead Poets Society, Stand and Deliver, Blues Brothers, Black Orpheus, Sleeper, Manhattan, The Shop Around the Corner, Quilombo, An Ideal Husband, Winged Migration, Spring Forward, and generally a sucker for anything with James Stewart, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Judi Dench, Christopher Walken, Jack Nicholson, John Malkovich, Salma Hayek, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Caine, Emma Thompson, Ralph Fiennes, Nicole Kidman, Chris Cooper, Roberto Benigni, Robin Williams, Eddie Izzard, and anything by Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Jim Jarmusch

New Orleans Brass Bands, Fairfield 4, Bird, Coltrane, Monk, Ellington, Mingus, Miles, Clifford Brown, Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Phineas Newborn Jr., Steve Lacy, Django, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Bobby Blue Bland, Mos Def, J Live, The Roots, Lauryn Hill, K-OS, Saul Williams, Taalam Acey, Beston, Fosforo, Micky Farkas, Goyeneche, Gardel, Pugliese, Piazzolla, El Arranque, Buena Vista, Taraf de Haidouks, Goran Bregovic, Debussy, Chopin, Ravel, Albeniz, Grieg, Bach, Berlioz, Brahms, klezmer, reggaeton, hawaiian slack key, bossa nova, choro, samba, bolero, son, cha cha, salsa

It's usually more enchanting on MUTE, with a krewe of cheeky overdub specialists, but there were a few rare gems-- any old British nature show, As Time Goes By, All in the Family, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Seinfeld, The Cosby Show, I Love Lucy, Fat Albert, Welcome Back Kotter, Gilligan's Island, Monty Python, Joe Frank (an old school radio show), and the splendelicious sketch comedy of The Ministry of Unknown Science

I'd like to jump out of a plane, but then land on someone else's plane. I prefer bug relocation and/or cohabitation to bug squishing. I am my own butler.

whisperers with lotsa moxie, and wild animals who'll dance with me