Damian Arlyn

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About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Art Teacher
Location	Mesquite, TX, United States
Introduction	I'm a 36-year-old former video store manager (currently elementary school art teacher) from Corvallis, OR, recently married and currently living in Mesquite, TX. Oh, and I love movies. I love making them, I love watching them, I love talking about them, I love reading about them and, of course, I love writing about them (which I plan to do a lot of on this blog).
Interests	Art, cinema, theatre, dance, music, literature, history, philosophy, theology
Favorite Movies	Schindler's List, Manhattan, 12 Angry Men, Seventh Seal, Wild Child, Red Violin, Jaws, Se7en, Unforgiven, Emma, Hudsucker Proxy, Day For Night, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Laura, The Verdict, Alien, Robocop, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Nightmare Before Christmas, Prince of Egypt, The Mission, Shadowlands, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Saving Private Ryan, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Safety Last, City Lights, Metropolis, It Happened One Night, Purple Rose of Cairo, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Sunrise, Amadeus, 400 Blows, Fiddler on the Roof, Top Hat, Dogma, Godfather, E.T., Back to the Future, Shawshank Redemption, Brazil, Die hard, Tootsie, Usual Suspects, Death Becomes Her, Exorcist, Matrix, Crimes & Misdemeanors, Rebecca, The Verdict, Lost in America, Grand Canyon, Being There, Breakfast at Tiffany's, JFK
Favorite Music	Classical, opera, movie scores, jazz, oldies
Favorite Books	A Grief Observed, Mere Christianity, The Most Real Being, Righteous Sinners, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, Frankenstein, Emma, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, The Scarlet Letter, The Sun Also Rises, Understanding Comics, Crazy For God, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Giving Tree, The Monster at the End of This Book, How to Read a Film, A History of Narrative Film, 1001 Films You Must See Before You Die, Future Noir: the Making of Blade Runner, King of Comedy: the Life and Art of Jerry Lewis, Screenplay, It Would Be So Nice If You Weren't Here, The Prince, The Platonic Dialogues, the Bible