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About me

Gender Male
Industry Student
Occupation U.S. Fulbright Scholar
Location Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
Introduction New Yorker by birth, shipped across the globe to the world of malls, shanty-towns, patronage, corruption, basketball and a curious burnt-toast smell that wafts around at dusk
Interests basketball, maigret/simenon, pho, chicken feet, egg sandwiches, mike lukovich political cartoons, education
Favorite Movies Rocco and his Brothers, The Battle of Algiers, The Wire, Surviving the Game, Hard Target, Bloodsport, Eddie Murphy Raw and Delirious, The Last Dragon, NY Undercover, New Jack City, Deep Cover, Breakdown, The Warriors, Big Trouble in Little China, The Air up There, Above the Rim, Hoop Dreams, Nothing but Trouble, Shadow of a Doubt, La Haine, The Up Series, Blue Velvet, Rosemary's Baby, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Drop Zone, Matchstick Men, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Taxi Driver, Manhattan, Deliverance, Pecker, The Night of the Hunter
Favorite Music Organized Konfusion, ATCQ, Wu-tang Clan, Biggie, Amon Tobin, Across the Universe, Grand Puba, Bobby Womack, Ahmad, Curtis Mayfield, The Spinners, Sly and the Family Stone, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Ludacris, Kool Keith, the Coup, Nas, Aceyalone, Latyrx, Hieroglyphics, Big L, Mobb Deep, Camp Lo, DJ Shadow, Attica Blues, The Streets, Roots Manuva, Bireli Lagrene, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, R. Kelly, Al Green, Sade
Favorite Books The Breaks of the Game by David Halberstam, Friday Night Lights by Buzz Bissinger, Violent Entrepreneurs by Vadim Volkov, Brothers K, Macho Camacho's Beat, The Ville by Greg Donaldson, Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, The New New Journalism, Best American Crime Writing Series, The Origins of Totalitarianism, Notes from Underground, The McSorley Poems