I tell stories about people, both real and invented.

I'm also an organizer at a theater group working from Skid Row. We have put on shows at major theaters, as well as less typical venues such as prisons and a tour of Bolivia.

Folding the paper, turning off my phone, concocting breakfast, giving names to animals, finishing things, dancing in pre-ironic styles, buying fruit, helping others find their keys, drawing, convincing the cat, finding charming apartments for rent at decent prices, wrinkle free cloths without ironing, public speaking, Marxist dialectics, buying pianos, taking walks, forgetting names, design and other noble pursuits.

Recent Music -
Talking Heads, Sun Ra, Bach, Ella Fitzgerald, Omar Souleyman, Leonard Cohen, Tinariwen.

Movies -
Taste of Cherry, Fanny and Alexander, Tropical Malady, Perfumed Nightmare, Black Cat White Cat, Meshes of the Afternoon, Sans Soleil...

I enjoy obscure films but I also watch Hollywood ones with dinosaurs that fall in love with robots and fight attractive pirates. I prefer to watch this type of film on Tuesday or Wednesday at Highland Theaters.

Books -
Last favorite fictions: My Name Is Red, View of Dawn in the Tropics, Season of Migration to the North & Bartleby the Scrivener. Plus Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Food -
101 Noodle Express (Alhambra)

I just need wine and Skype at this point. The rest is extra.

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I’d give everything I own for that gazelle
who, rising at night to his
harp and flute,
saw a cup in my hand
and said:
“Drink your grape blood against my lips!”
And the moon was cut like a D,
on a dark robe, written in gold.
- Shmuel Hanagid