Despite having just recently entered the halls of "higher education," there are some subjects I'm desperate to delve into which I'm pretty sure aren't going to be covered by any of my classes in the coming years (unless, of course, any of my teachers decided to start teaching soon).
- Ashrams
- The I/the self
- Orphan films
- Persian rugs
- Utilitarianism
- Søren Kierkegaard
- Frederic Nietzsche
- Buddhism & Taoism
- Mise en scène
- Synecdoche
- Epictetus/Enchiridion
- 18th and 17th century French art
- Transcendental meditation
- The Unified Field
- Multiple use objects/Functionality
- Film archival and preservation
- The philosophy of criticism
- The philosophy of running
- Looking and being looked at
- Ayurvedic medicine and vinyasa yoga
- Leo Tolstoy and Russian lit. in general
- Joseph Campbell & the Hero's Journey
- Marshall McLuhan
- D.W. Griffith
- Necessity
- String
- Silence
- Pietre Brueghel
- James Baldwin
- Joan Didion
- Dymanism
- Congruency
- Uniforms
- Anton Chekhov
- Part-whole relationships
- Werner Herzog (as a person)
- Ingmar Bergman (as a person)
- Orswon Welles (as a person)
- Russian literature of the mid-1800s:
- Leo Tolstoy
- Anton Chekhov
- Nikolai Gogol
- Ivan Turgenev
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alexander Pushkin
- Parallel/stolen identities, doppelgangers, i.e.
- Blue Velvet
- Mulholland Drive
- 3 Women
- Persona