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Activity Summary
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Reviews Written: 30
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Member Visits: 899
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Total Visits: 10,572
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About jorn
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Maintainer of Robot Wisdom Weblog
Favorite directors/films:
- Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Brewster McCloud)
- Richard Lester (Help, Funny Thing/Forum)
- David Lynch (Blue Velvet)
- Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs)
- Jacques Rivette (Celine & Julie Go Boating)
- Mike Leigh (High Hopes)
- Scorsese (GoodFellas)
- Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
- Absolute Beginners (Temple)
- Sleeper (Woody Allen)
- What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich)
- Black Orpheus (Camus)
- Sweetie (Jane Campion)
- American Graffiti (Lucas)
- They Live (John Carpenter)
Guilty pleasures: Barbarella
Favorite authors/books:
- Joyce (Finnegans Wake)
- Barbara O'Brien (Operators and Things)
- Robert Stone (Damascus Gate)
- Iris Murdoch (Word Child)
- Joseph McElroy (Ancient History)
- Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
- Nabokov (Strong Opinions)
- G Spencer Brown (Laws of Form)
- Krishnamurti
- Stephen Gaskin (Amazing Dope Tales)
Favorite musicians: Kate Bush, Hal Willner, Joni Mitchell, Michael Hurley, Incredible String Band, Thelonius Monk, Marta Sebestyen, Stewart/Gaskin
Theme song: Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith)
Political flashpoints: Waco, NAFTA, campaign finance, rights of corporations
Contrarian opinions: W3C and XML are evil; Joyce is the grandfather of AI; literature is descriptive psychology
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