Favorite Links:
The Web Gallery of Art: An excellent source for thousands of paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800.
Cagle'sWeb Page of Professional Cartoonists
Wikipedia: the online free encyclopedia, and the best thing on the internet since Google came sliced. Yes, you can edit it!
The webpage of my friend/colleague Dr. Ali Pezeshki.
The weblog of my friend Saar Drimer.
Local Public Radio Station KAZU (it is based in Monterey but since Santa Cruz station KUSP sucks,... ). I like to listen to The Writer's Almanac, Car Talk, Fresh Air, On Point , and This American Life (unless it is one Ira's too depressing stories) if I get a chance (i.e. if I am in my car).
Some Favorite Novels:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (by Gabriel García Márquez)
Adieu Gary Cooper (by Romain Gary)
Monsignor Quixote (by Graham Greene)
Naked and the Dead (by Norman Mailer)
The Clown (by Heinrich Böll)
The Plague (by Albert Camus)
Catcher in the Rye (by J.D. Salinger)
The War at the End of the World (by Mario Vargos Llosa)
Catch-22 (by Joseph Heller)
The Grapes Of Wrath (by John Steinbeck)
The Master and Margarita (by Mikhail Bulgakov)
Freedom and Death (by Nikos Kazantzakis)
Quiet Flows the Don (by Mikhail Sholokhov)
Billy Bathgate (by E.L Doctorow)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (by Ken Kesey )
An Artist of the Floating World (by Kazuo Ishiguro)
Darkness at Noon (by Arthur Koestler)
Marabou Stork Nightmares (by Irvine Welsh)
Middlesex (by Jeffrey Eugenides )
The Lost Painting (by Jonathan Harr)
I have recently started writing short reviews for the recent (notable, non-scientific) books that I have read on my personal webpage.
Some Favorite Movies:
Remains of the Day
Cinema Paradiso
Mullholland Drive
Sideways
Favorite Music:
I like movie soundtracks and these are some of my favorite composers:
Zbigniew Preisner, Angelo Badalamenti, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, Mikis Theodorakis, Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre, Pieter Bourke, Patrick Doyle, Terence Blanchard, Klaus Doldinger, Richard Robbins, Elliot Goldenthal
Favorite Holiday:
Festivus.
Un-Favorites:
Anything with six or eight legs unless it is made of silicon.
April 15th
Flat tire
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