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Jack Veasey

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About me

Gender	Male
Occupation	Writer
Location	Hummelstown, PA, United States
Introduction	I now have more than one blog here -- one for my work (poetry, creative nonfiction, and occasionally flash fiction), and one for my lifelong hobby, collecting horror films -- and apparently I have to have the same profile biography for both of them. So I now have two "About Me" pages. Check out the relevant one.
Interests	Writing (particularly poetry, short stories, film reviews), singing (solo and choral), watching/collecting movies, reading, long drives with my partner on beautiful days, spending quality time with my partner and my pets, meditation, Reiki healings, walks, prayer
Favorite Movies	The Wicker Man (original), The Wizard Of Oz, Cat People (original), The Birds, Psycho, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (original), The Bad Seed, The Gang's All Here, Code Of Silence, Black Orpheus, Carrie (original), Thirst, The Ruling Class, Sweetie, Eating Raoul, Phantom Of The Paradise, Metropolis, Woodstock, The Last Waltz, The Producers (original), Airplane, The Fury, Nashville, Victor/Victoria, Clerks, Inside Daisy Clover, The Groove Tube, Blood And Roses, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Gojira
Favorite Music	Billie Holiday, Dusty Springfield, Patsy Cline, Mahalia Jackson, Melanie, The Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, CSN&Y, The Beatles, Steely Dan, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Martha and The Vandellas, The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick, The Marvelettes, The Shangri Las, early Elton John, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Julie Andrews, Patti Labelle, Jerry Butler, Kate Bush, Laura Nyro, Bette Midler, The Ronettes, Patti Smith, Jane Olivor, Petula Clark, Ronee Blakely, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffet, Lulu, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Elly Stone, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach, Karen Carpenter, Janis Ian, Doo Wop, Girl Groups, Sea Shanties
Favorite Books	The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell's translation; The Little Prince, by Antoine St. Exupery; Isabel Rawsthorne Standing In A Street In Soho, The Blue Scar, and Shaman Body, by Alexandra Grilikhes (poetry); A Full Heart, by Edward Field (poetry); Writing Down The Bones, by Natalie Goldberg; Parachutes, by Shirley Powell (poems & short stories); Collected Sonnets, by Edna St. Vincent Millay; Doing It With Style, by Quentin Crisp & Donald Carroll; Revelations, by Diane Arbus; AmphiGorey 1 & 2, by Edward Gorey; The Essential Bogosian, by Eric Bogosian; The Dhammapada, P. Lal's translation; The Intimate Art Of Writing Poetry, by Ottone M. Riccio; short stories by M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Saki, Lafcadio Hearn, Algernon Blackwood, HP Lovecraft