Smorg - Profile

<strong>Smorg</strong>.... is a Generation X'er from San Diego, CA, USA.

<strong>I'm addicted to :</strong> Starbuck's mocha flappuccino, classical music from the late Baroque to the late Romantic periods, Johann Strauss' waltzes, opera, expressive mezzos, sunflowers, non-fiction outdoor books, Russian lit, spoiled furry cats, spoiled fat pigeons, spoiled fat dogs that chase the spoiled fat pigeons and cats around...

Smorg also hangs out at <a href="http://www.epinions.com">www.epinions.com</a> .... Knows a lot of junk knowledge but isn't all that deeply knowledgeable on anything... besides medical testings (only because that's what I do for a living). Can appreciate music alright (play piano and Eb clarinet), but can't play music appreciably well.... Very given to weird jokes, so if I offended you, chances are I didn't mean to.... I just get lucky that way sometimes.

<strong>Favorite CD:</strong>

<ul><li><strong>Vesselina Kasarova</strong>: Bulgarian Soul</li><li><strong>Vesselina Kasarova:</strong> Mozart Arias</li><li><strong>Astrid Varnay</strong> sings Wagner, Verdi, Halevy</li><li><strong>Rachmaninov</strong>'s 3rd piano concerto/<strong>Tchaikovsky</strong>'s 1st piano concerto (<strong>Martha Argerich</strong>)</li><li>Bach: <strong>Matth</strong><strong>&auml;</strong><strong>us Passion</strong> (<strong>N Harnoncourt</strong>/ Schade, R&ouml;schmann, et.al)</li><li>Bellini: <strong>I Capuleti e i Montecchi </strong>(RCA Victor): <strong>R Abbado</strong>/ Kasarova, Mei, Vargas</li><li><strong>Vesselina Kasarova: </strong>Lieder by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann</li><li><strong>H</strong><strong>&auml;</strong><strong>ndel:</strong> Rinaldo: Fisher/ Horne</li></ul>

<strong>Favorite Books:</strong>

<ul><li>Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)</li><li>West With the Night (Beryl Markham)</li><li>Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)</li><li>Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Richard P. Feynman)</li><li>The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan)</li><li>55 Years In 5 Acts (Astrid Varnay)</li><li>Sleepwalker in a Fog (Tatyana Tolstaya)</li><li>Cancert Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)</li></ul>