Filmmaking (but that's not really an interest it's a profession). Music, philosophy, economics health and politics.
Music
Debussy. Beethoven Mozart, Brahms, Scarlatti, Bach. Oscar Peterson Thelonius Monk, Budd Powell Bill Evans.
Movies
Stranger Than Paradise, Rocky, Solaris (Original Tarkovsky version), Titanic, The Lady Eve, Citzen Kane, Seventh Seal.
Television
nothing regular. I flip around when I'm bored of reading and movies.
Books
Fiction: "On The Road" and "Virgin Suicides" are my favorites.
Non Fiction: too many. Plato, Aristotle, Shopenhauer, Kant, and lots of books about them. I love semiotics (god help me) and get a kick out of Ernst Cassirer (did I spell that right? ). Love to sit in Barnes and Noble and pretend I'm going to read Hegel's "Science of Logic" while waiting for my wife to finish browsing.
Heroes
People who were rushing into the Twin Towers on 9-11 when everyone else was running out., Anyone who helps us move beyond racisim, sexism, ism-ism.
Michael's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Staten Island, Metaphysical landscape
Body type:
6' 1" / Some extra baggage
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Agnostic
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Children:
Love kids, but not for me
Education:
Post grad
Michael's Companies
School of Visual Arts New York , New York US Professor of Screenwriting Film, Television, Animation
About me: Independent filmmaker (although I haven't held a piece of celluloid in my hands for 10 years). Eclectic taste (Hollywood, Indywood, Foreignwood). Plays some music, husband to my lovely brilliant wife Judy, wife to my male alter ego, brother, son, human, earth, milky way, universe.
First film "Auditions" well received by critics and credit card companies. Available on "Netflix". Stand-by for trailer.
First book "Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters" is currently taught in fine universities everywhere.
CLICK "VIDEO" TO SEE MY SHORT FILMS AND TRAILER FOR MY FEATURE "AUDITIONS."
Who I'd like to meet: Dead: (Jesus, Mary Magdalene [not in that order]. Karl Marx (with a German translator), Genghis Khan (with a bodyguard and a translator). Colonel Sanders. John Lennon. Stanley Kubrick. Claude Debussy. I'll think of more later.
Living: Barack Obama, Alan Greenspan to look over my stock portfolio.
