Interests:
Algebra, Quantum Mechanics, How these two interact, Music, String Theory, Topology, Art in general, Philosophy of Math and Aesthetics, Pleasure Machines (see Novick), Post-modernism, Taoism, Speech and Debate, David Foster Wallace, Literature, Languages, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Sciences, Anything that combines all of these things together (see Douglas Hofstadter)
Favorite Music:
Just a few…, A.J. Kernis, Andrew Bird, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Copeland, Dan Deacon, Death Cab, Dilinger Escape Plan, Doves, Duncan Sheik, The Field, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Imogen Heap, Iron and Wine, John Hollenbeck, M. Ward, Modest Mouse, The National, Radiohead, Sia, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, The Frames, The Shins, Time of Orchids, Tool, Wilco …
Favorite Movies:
Donnie Darko, Philadelphia, Magnolia, Crash, The Village, Psycho, Angels in America, Fight Club, Waking Life, What the Bleep, Citizen Kane, Little Miss Sunshine, A Scanner Darkly, The History Boys, Northfork, The Fountain, Suicide Club, Babel, Blue Velvet, Little Children, Naqoyqatsi, Science of Sleep, Pan’s Labyrinth, Sublime, Inland Empire, Fur, Mysterious Skin, Palindromes, 茶の味, November, Match Point, things of that sort…
Favorite Books:
Ishmael, Ender series, Tao Te Ching, Disappearance of the Universe, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Fall on Your Knees, Foundation series, The Brothers Karamazov, The Bell Jar, any Faulkner, The Broken God, any Thomas Hardy, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, any Tom Stoppard, any Eugene O’neill, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, The Crying of Lot 49, The End of Mr. Y, Dhalgren, A Confederacy of Dunces, Infinite Jest (any DFW), American Pastoral, Specimen Days, any Haruki Murakami
