joan
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Staten Island, New York, United States |
| Introduction | I am from Brooklyn, and my heart still lives there. I am passionate about Emmie (my doggie daughter), our First Amendment Rights, my nephews, animals, my domestic partner, Saint Augustine's Church (where I was christened) in Park Slope (where I was born), 25 St. John's Place, Flatlands and Canarsie, Asbury Park, Bruce Springsteen-the poet of my soul, Patti Scialfa-also the poet of my soul, the ocean, art, great literature, and am so conscious that I will never get to read all the books I want to read that I hope "heaven is some kind of library." |
| Interests | WORDS-LANGUAGE and its power, writing, intelligence, music, my nephews--the loves of my life--, animals, politics, democracy as it ought to be, religion, history, the beach, the mountains, Bruce Springsteen--the poet of my soul--, Patti Scialfa--also poet of my soul, movies, barbeque, New Orleans--love it!, teqila and V8 juice (on occasion), my wonderful family and domestic partner, ideas,BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!!! |
| Favorite movies | Anything with Cate Blanchett in it, especially Elizabeth, Veronica Guerin, The Gift and Notes On A Scandal, 84 Charing Cross Road, The Exorcist (scariest movie ever made), Horror Hotel, Judgment At Nuremberg (with Spencer Tracy), The Remains of the Day, American History X, Wuthering Heights (original), Much Ado About Nothing, Michael Clayton, Up In the Air, Very Annie Mary, Velvet Goldmine, Man On Fire, Gladiator, Signs, Goodfellas, Silence of the Lambs, The Brave One, Breach, Capote, Mystic River, Muriel's Wedding, Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Rite, Home Room, Schindler's List (hard to take), Milk, X, The Hunting Party,Sunset Boulevard, All The President's Men, It's A Wonderful Life, MR. Smith Goes To Washington, Manhattan, and many more!!! |
| Favorite music | Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, ROCK 'N ROLL !!!! - also, Eddi Reader, Patti Scialfa, Ann and Nancy Wilson, Heart, Courtney Love, Jacob Dylan, The Wallflowers, Indigo Girls, Gin Blossoms, Counting Crows, Eddie Vedder, Pink, Linda Perry, Nirvana, Dilana Robichaux, Adele, Johnette Napolitano (love her!), Concrete Blonde |
| Favorite books | I can't even begin to address this fully, but, here goes: Paradise Lost, Shakespeare's works, Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Jude The Obscure, Middlemarch, The Magic Mountain, Areopagitica (an essay by Milton), The Iliad, The Red And The Black, Madame Bovary, Moby Dick, works of Voltaire, Greek Philosophy (Aristotle and Plato), The Federalist Papers, The U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Abraham Lincoln's Speeches, John Adams, All The President's Men, Viper Rum, works of Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Frost, works of Wordsworth, works of Poe, Vanity Fair, The Professor's House, Into The Wild, In Cold Blood, Never Cry Wolf, The Woman Warrior, Sassafras Cypress and Indigo, Toni Morrison's works especially Song of Solomon, Bleak House (and just about all of Dickens), Kafka Was The Rage, A Room of One's Own, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Trinity, Redemption, Invisible Man, The Shipping News, A Severed Head, The Brother Cadfael books, I Am The Darker Brother, The Color Purple, My Name Is Asher Lev, The Chosen, Cry To Heaven, Christopher Hitchens's journalistic work, Wally Lamb's works, AND MORE !!! |