Basics:

  • Born: 5 January 1983
  • City of Birth: Torrance, CA
  • height: 5ft, 6.5 inches
  • eyes: medium brown
  • hair: dark brown
  • skin tone: olive/Mediterranean...but in need of a tan...
  • celebrity look alike: either Jack Black or Orson Welles
  • religious affiliation: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • Current political affiliation: Democratic Party

Various tidbits:

  • High School: Adolfo Camarillo High School
  • Junior College: Moorpark
  • Mission: Tennessee Nashville, laboring in the Spanish Language
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  • re-learn Spanish, and use it this time!
  • learn French
  • open a restaurant
  • own some sort of high powered supercar
  • travel to Britain
  • travel to France, Paris and the rest of the country
  • travel to Germany and Austria
  • travel extensively in Italy, doing genealogy
  • take a Trans-Atlantic cruise, both ways
  • travel in Mexico, not just cruise ports, but the interior
  • See Buenos Aires and the Pampas
  • see Chile
  • See Rio de Janiero and Brazilia
  • ..more to come...
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Classical

  • Baroque
  • Early to Mid-Classical
  • Medieval
  • early 20th Century (i.e. Stravinsky, Gershwin, Copeland, etc.)
  • Leonard Bernstein (yes I give him his own category!)
  • Opera (Mostly Italian, and even then if sung by Pavarotti)
  • Classical Crossover

Jazz

  • Bossa Nova
  • Samba
  • Salsa
  • Avant-Garde
  • Jazz Manouche (Gypsy Jazz)
  • American and European Free Jazz
  • hard Bop
  • Latin Jazz
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Languages I am somewhat fluent in:

  • English (Yankee American, Californian, and Southernese Dialects)
  • Spanish (Distrito Federal, Cuban, Argentine, and Castilian Dialects)
  • Car Guy (Classic American, exotics, and international late-model Dialects)

Languages I know some of, or at one time knew well:

  • Latin (read only, and even then only the grammar)
  • French (see above)
  • Italian (see above)
  • German (with a Viennese dialect, learned in HS, unlearned in the MTC)
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In no particular order:

  • Casablanca (1942, probably my favorite film of all time)
  • Metropolis (1927, second favorite film)
  • Dr Strangelove: Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • The 4 Indiana Jones movies

more to come.............

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  • I actually like musicals. They are often so mindless, that I will sit and watch a few just to get my mind off of other stuff. Not having to think for two hours is a great thing!
  • I can sing. Yeah, I can actually sing. I have a range of sound, somewhere between Harry Connick Jr and Tony Bennett.
  • I love anything nautical. Mostly, I love ocean liners. In a big way...
  • I took art lessons for 8 years as a kid, and really squandered that talent since
  • I actually enjoy shopping with a girl. I find I can learn a lot about a girl by what stores she visits: anything that looks like it came from J Crew, Anthropologie, Ann Taylor, Brooks Brothers, or Nordstrom = my kind of girl. Guess, Pink, or faux rocker chic look...I'd pass
  • I'm very opinionated....wait....everyone knows that!
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  • 2003 Tom McClintock for Governor
  • 2004 George W. Bush Presidential
  • 2004 Tony Strickland Assemblyman
  • 2008 Hillary Clinton for President
  • 2008 Barack Obama for President
  • 2008 Yes on Prop 8
  • 2010 Meg Whitman for Governor
  • 2012 Barack Obama...yeah ok..it's early for that...
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  • 1994 Ford Taurus
  • 1996 Ford Taurus SHO (with the V8)
  • 1988 BMW 325i
  • 1998 Toyota Camry
  • 1927 Ford Model T
  • 1933 Ford V8 Deluxe Phaeton (Hot Rodded)
  • 2007 Volkswagen Jetta Wolfsburg Edition
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Hamburgers

  • made with 80/20 ground chuck beef
  • made into a patty of approximately 8oz
  • with a toasted Kaiser Roll
  • topped with Heinz ketchup, and (specifically) Grey Poupon Dijon mustard
  • with melted yellow American or Provolone

Soups

  • miso
  • plain udon
  • Matzo Ball
  • French Onion (with melted Gruyere on the crouton)
  • Vichyssoise (chilled as it should be)
  • Pepper Pot (best from City Tavern in Philadelphia)
  • Cream of Asparagus
  • Cream of Mushroom
  • Szechuan Wonton Soup

Salad Toppings

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Those I've been to:

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • MOCA Los Angeles
  • Getty Villa, Malibu
  • Getty Villa, Los Angeles
  • Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens
  • Ventura County Museum
  • Santa Barbara Museum of Art
  • UCSB Art Museum
  • Hammer Museum
  • Fowler Museum
  • De Young Museum of Art, San Francisco
  • Legion of Honor, San Francisco
  • San Diego Museum of Art
  • Museum of Church History and Art, Salt Lake City
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • National Gallery, Washington DC

Those that I'd like to see

  • The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
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