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About jorn
Member:	Jorn Barger
Epinions.com ID:	jorn
Location:	Chicago, IL
Member Since:	Sep 13 '99
Homepage:	http://www.robotwisdom.com/

Favorite Websites:	http://home.luna.nl/~ellen/present/index.html
	http://prorev.com/indexa.htm
	http://www.gamasutra.com/

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Reviews Written: 30

Member Visits: 896

Total Visits: 9,660

jorn's Recent Opinions
Date Written	Review Title	Product / Topic	Product Rating	Review Rating
Sep 23 '00	'Dangerous Friend' classic Vietnam parable	Just Ward S in Archived Reviews		Very Helpful
Aug 10 '00	Very cool female James Bond	Peter Hoeg and Tiina Nunnally - Smilla's Sense of Snow in Books		Very Helpful
Aug 10 '00	Perfect for David Lynch fans	Lynda Barry - Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel in Books		Somewhat Helpful
Aug 02 '00	Where's the plot?	George V. Higgins - At End of Day: A Novel of Suspense in Books		Helpful
Jul 14 '00	How they're fleecing you	Dumb Money: Adventures of a Day Trader Books in Books		Helpful
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Maintainer of Robot Wisdom Weblog

Favorite directors/films:
- Robert Altman (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Brewster McCloud)
- Richard Lester (Help, Funny Thing/Forum)
- David Lynch (Blue Velvet)
- Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs)
- Jacques Rivette (Celine & Julie Go Boating)
- Mike Leigh (High Hopes)
- Scorsese (GoodFellas)
- Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket)
- Absolute Beginners (Temple)
- Sleeper (Woody Allen)
- What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich)
- Black Orpheus (Camus)
- Sweetie (Jane Campion)
- American Graffiti (Lucas)
- They Live (John Carpenter)

Guilty pleasures: Barbarella

Favorite authors/books:
- Joyce (Finnegans Wake)
- Barbara O'Brien (Operators and Things)
- Robert Stone (Damascus Gate)
- Iris Murdoch (Word Child)
- Joseph McElroy (Ancient History)
- Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow)
- Nabokov (Strong Opinions)
- G Spencer Brown (Laws of Form)
- Krishnamurti
- Stephen Gaskin (Amazing Dope Tales)

Favorite musicians: Kate Bush, Hal Willner, Joni Mitchell, Michael Hurley, Incredible String Band, Thelonius Monk, Marta Sebestyen, Stewart/Gaskin

Theme song: Dancing Barefoot (Patti Smith)

Political flashpoints: Waco, NAFTA, campaign finance, rights of corporations

Contrarian opinions: W3C and XML are evil; Joyce is the grandfather of AI; literature is descriptive psychology

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