Favorite Links:
The Web Gallery of Art: An excellent source for thousands of paintings and sculptures created between the years 1150 and 1800.
The webpage of my friend/colleague Dr. Ali Pezeshki at Princeton University.
The weblog of my friend Saar Drimer at Cambridge University.
Cagle'sWeb Page of
Professional Cartoonists.
Local Public Radio Station: In Durham I listen to WUNC . Unfortunately it is not as good as the KAZU which I used to listen to. I like to listen to Car Talk, Fresh Air, The Writer's Almanac, Justice Talking, On Point (WUNC doesn't broadcast the last two, so I can only listen to ithem online), and This American Life if I get a chance.
Human Nature articles on Science,
technology, and life in Slate.
Edge: Heresy in Science.
NY
Times Science Webpage, Guardian
Science Webpage, Independent
Science Webpage
Texas A&M
Anthropology Department News Links
Some Favorite Novels:
One Hundred Years of Solitude (by Gabriel García Márquez )
Adieu Gary Cooper (by Romain Gary)
Monsignor Quixote (by Graham Greene)
Naked and the Dead (by Norman Mailer)
The Clown (by Heinrich Böll)
The Plague (by Albert Camus)
Catcher in the Rye (by J.D. Salinger)
The War at the End of the World (by Mario Vargos Llosa)
Catch-22 (by Joseph Heller)
The Grapes Of Wrath (by John Steinbeck)
The Master and Margarita (by Mikhail Bulgakov)
Freedom and Death (by Nikos Kazantzakis)
Quiet Flows the Don (by Mikhail Sholokhov)
Billy Bathgate (by E.L Doctorow)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (by Ken Kesey )
An Artist of the Floating World (by Kazuo Ishiguro)
Darkness at Noon (by Arthur Koestler)
Marabou Stork Nightmares (by Irvine Welsh)
Middlesex (by Jeffrey Eugenides )
The Lost Painting (by Jonathan Harr)
Some Favorite Movies:
Remains of the Day
Cinema Paradiso
Mullholland Drive
Sideways
Favorite Music:
I like movie soundtracks and these are some of my favorite composers:
Zbigniew Preisner, Angelo Badalamenti, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, Mikis Theodorakis, Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre, Pieter Bourke, Patrick Doyle, Terence Blanchard, Klaus Doldinger, Richard Robbins, Elliot Goldenthal
Favorite Holiday:
Festivus.
Favorites in Santa Cruz:
Asian Rose Cafe (decent and cheap vegan/vegetarian lunch on the healthy side).
Saturn Cafe (vegan/vegetarian burgers and other food. Opens till late, not that healthy though. Try mini-madness for dessert).
Zachary's (try mini Mike's-Mess for breakfast).
Cafe Brazil (good food (no dinner), fairly priced, nice people).
The Buttery Bakery (pastries and decent sandwiches, try the Grilled Chicken Sandwich)
Planet Fresh (fill up cheap with burritos and tacos).
Soquel Auto Repair (ask for Fardad, nice/fair guy for car repairs).
Trader Joe's+ Farmers Market (Wednesday afternoons), Shopper's Corner+ New Leaf (You need to visit them all to find decent/local/organic fair priced groceries).
DeCinzo Cartoons in Metro Santa Cruz.
Un-Favorites:
Anything with six or eight legs unless it is made of silicon.
April 15th.
Mad Hatter's Café in Durham, NC (or any other café in that case) that restricts the use of laptops.
The Story with Dick Gordon a shamelessly dull program for public radio (NPR).
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