W. Jeff Bishop
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Journalist / Public Historian |
| Location | Newnan, GA, United States |
| Introduction | Jeff is a journalist and public historian who lives with his wife and five children in Newnan, Georgia. |
| Interests | Hiking the Appalachian Trail, genealogy, Native American myth and history, historic preservation. |
| Favorite movies | Duck Soup, Singin' In the Rain, Apocalypse Now, King Kong (1933), The Godfather I and II, Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Citizen Kane, The Graduate, RAN, Scenes From a Marriage, Brazil, This Is Spinal Tap, Do the Right Thing, The Decalogue, Aliens, anything by Zhang Yimou, anything by Alexander Payne. |
| Favorite music | The Lomax Collection, Kelly Hogan, James Brown, Public Enemy, 1812, Gershwin, all the Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald duets, Van Halen. |
| Favorite books | Leaves of Grass by Whitman; The Blank Slate by Pinker; The Power of Myth by Campbell; Cherokee Myths and Sacred Formulas by Mooney; The Sacred and the Profane by Eliade; Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen; Old Frontiers by Brown; The Mind's I by Hofstadter; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein, Shakespeare. |