User:Bruxism

User:Bruxism
Last Book Read:	Turkmeniscam by Ken Silverstein
Last Film Seen (in a theatre):	Ran by Akira Kurosawa
Last Theatrical Work Seen (live):	Dog and Wolf by Catherine Filloux
My car:	1993 Nissan Sentra
Current Mileage:	329,000 (526,000 km)

Articles started: Applied folklore, American Folklore Society, Don West (educator), Eliot Wigginton, Heo Se-wook, Jean Mohr, Jim Corbett, Juan Luis Segundo, Kenneth A. Gibson, Komagata Maru, Let Me In (song), Mixe, Public folklore, Raatbek Sanatbayev, Samuel Swan, Vector (game), and numerous stubs.

My personal top ten films of all time:

• Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau, France, 1930)
• The Burmese Harp (Kon Ichikawa, Japan, 1956)
• Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, U.S., 1941)
• City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, U.S., 1931)
• City of God (Ciudade de Deus) (Fernando Meirelles, Brazil, 2002)
• 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, Italy, 1963)
• Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (Alain Tanner with script by John Berger, Switzerland, 1976)
• Ran (Akira Kurosawa, Japan, 1985)
• The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophüls, France/Switzerland/Germany, 1969)
• The Tree of Wooden Clogs (Ermanno Olmi, Italy, 1978)

Books that have changed me, influenced me, or moved me the most, emotionally or intellectually, at the right moment in my life; sort of a top 15:

• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
• America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
• Christ Stopped at Eboli by Carlo Levi
• History: A Novel by Elsa Morante
• Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
• The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
• McTeague by Frank Norris
• The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
• Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
• The Monkey's Wrench by Primo Levi
• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
• The Price by Arthur Miller
• Workers and Migrations by Sebastião Salgado

Name-dropping: I know, or have known, the following people: Peggy A. Bulger, Jim Corbett, Dell Hymes, Barbara Kopple, Albert Lord, Gregory Mankiw, George B. Moffat, Jr., Mick Moloney, Michael L. Murray, Hy Zaret. I met the following at least once: Ted Kennedy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Frank Lautenberg, Tom Lehrer, Tim O'Brien, Howard Zinn. (More to come).

I'm currently trying to collect information on the International Award of Giuseppe Pitrè-Salvatore Salomone Marino for Ethnological and Anthropological Studies. To help with this project, until it's ready to be posted, go here.

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About me

This user is left-handed.

This user is nocturnal.

This user lives in the state of New Jersey.

This user does not smoke.

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This user is interested in his family history.

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This user is currently reading Ulysses by James Joyce.

This user is currently reading Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West.

This user is currently reading Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro.

This user is currently reading Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell, Fear of Falling by Barbara Ehrenreich, and about ten other books..

This user eats eggplant.

This user drinks chocolate milk.

This user eats bagels.

This user plays the recorder.

This user likes all types of music.

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There's a funny story about that...

Where I stand

This user believes in the power of nonviolence.

This user supports the United Nations.

This user knows that there are
654,965 reasons why the
2003 invasion of Iraq was wrong.^†

This user opposes all forms of racism and admires Nelson Mandela.

This user does not begrudge illegal immigrants and supports their right to immigrate undocumentedly.

This user believes that torture cannot be justified under any circumstances.

This user supports Amnesty International.

This user admires Saint Óscar Romero.

This user believes that the death penalty should never be used.

This user supports the peaceful reunification of N. and S. Korea.

This user supports a Free Tibet

This user supports the independence of Kurdistan.

This user supports the independence of Greenland

This user supports statehood for the Northern Territory.

This user condemns fox hunting.

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WikiProject New Jersey.

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Residence and citizenship:
These are the countries I have visited (for more than one month total):
(for more than one week):
(for more than one day):
(for just a few hours):
(for a few hours, but they may or may not be countries, depending on your point of view):
These I passed through on a train, but never got out:	(except to change trains):
And these I never left the airport! :
Idea and layout stolen from User:Guettarda and User:SqueakBox....
Map of where I've been and in the U.S. Create your own visited countries map