This is my wife, Erica, and I at our wedding in May of 2003 - although by the appearance of this photo we look as if we were married in the 1940s.
And now (drumroll) ...introducing ...the one and only ...
Max Bennett Rubin
our son, born on January 18, 2006For more Max pictures, click here.
Anyone who knows me knows of my passion for the English Premier League
and downright inexplicable interest in the fortunes of the Bolton Wanderers.
Favorite Films
(in a semi-particular order)
Andrei Rublev (1969) Andrei Tarkovsky, director
Stroszek (1977) Werner Herzog, director
Au hasard Balthazar (1966) Robert Bresson, director
Decasia (2002) Bill Morrison, director
Black Robe (1991) Bruce Beresford, director
Throne of Blood (1957) Akira Kurosawa, director
Winter Light (1963) Ingmar Bergman, director
Anything featuring Buster Keaton
The Street of Crocodiles (1986) The Quay Brothers
Fear Eats the Soul (1974) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, director
The Long Riders (1980) Walter Hill, director
The complete works of Jan Svankmajer
Favorite Composers
(in no particular order)
Modern and Contemporary
Hugo Distler (1908-42)
Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951)
Allan Pettersson (1911-80)
Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) Justin Rubin Recordings of Xenakis
Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938)
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-88)
Anton Webern (1883-1945)
William Baines (1899-1922)
Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892-1988) Justin Rubin's article on Sorabji
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (1872-1949) / Thomas de Hartmann (1886-1956)
Leopold Godowsky (1870-1938)
Charles Ives (1874-1954)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
17th-19th Century
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)
Heinrich Schütz (1565-1682)
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888)
Max Reger (1873-1916)
Don Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613)
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas (1729-1783)Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Antonio Soler (1729-1783)
Manuel Rodrigues Coelho (1555-1635)
Matthias Weckmann (1616-1674)
PS my favorite band is the Waikiki Hawaiian Orchestra.
Favorite Artists
(in no particular order)Barnett Newman (1905-70) Justin Rubin's article on Newman
Ad Reinhardt (1913-67)
Leon Polk Smith (1906-96)
Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93)
John Merigliano (b. 1970)
Chris Burden (b. 1946)
Henry Darger (1892-1973)
Kenneth Noland (b. 1924)
Mark Tobey (1890-1976)
Alice Neel (1900-1984)
Gerard David (1460-1523)
Favorite Video Games
(both arcade and home, and in no particular order - this list would be too huge
if I REALLY took time to make an exhaustive one - I add 'em as I think of 'em,
so think of this is a work in progress - makes me wonder how I became a professor
when I spent so MUCH of my youth and, ahem, adulthood playing video games)NHL Hockey 1993 (Sega Genesis)
Dreadnaught Factor (Atari 800XL)
Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Sega Genesis)
Blue Max (Atari 800XL)
Archon (Atari 800XL)
One on One Basketball (Atari 800XL)
Pharoah's Curse (Atari 800XL)
Rescue on Fractalus (Atari 800XL)
Jumpman and Jumpman Junior (Atari 800XL)
Bruce Lee (Atari 800 XL)
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