John
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Semi-Retired |
| Location | Hiram, Maine, United States |
| Introduction | Born in Quincy, MA, John Bonanno dwells on nine acres of gardens & woodland in Hiram, Maine. John retired November 30, 2010 after a career as a mailman in Portland, Maine. He attended the University of Massachusetts in Boston, graduating with a degree in anthropology and a scholarly interest in the tradition of human sacrifice. He drove a taxi in Boston. He served in the United States Navy for four and a half years, first enlisting and then being commissioned after attending officer's candidate school. He has also worked in sales, as a cook, and in radio. This autodidact artist was first shown at the June Fitzpatrick Gallery in Portland Maine. He founded the Unaffiliated Thelemite Association UTA, now in a period of silence. He is devoting more time to his art since his retirement. |
| Interests | Gardening,Cooking,Epistemology, Art, Painting, Magick, Baseball, Thelema, Italy, Judaism, Finland, Genealogy, Anthropology, Herbalism, Unclassifiable Things |
| Favorite movies | Let the Right One In, No Country For Old Men, Taxi Driver, Zodiac, The Chorus, Gone Baby Gone, Munich, The Wild Bunch, Grindhouse:Death Proof, The Machinist, They Live, |
| Favorite music | Blues, Jazz, Art Tatum, Ben Webster, Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, Anton Bruckner, Luigi Boccherini, Arthur Lee's Love, Guiseppe Verdi, Mozart Clarinet Quintet, Mozart Clarinet Concerto, Mississippi John Hurt,Roy Orbison, Gene Pitney, |
| Favorite books | Philip K. Dick, Robert Sheckley, Gore Vidal, Ferdinand Lundberg's The Rich and the Super Rich, Aryeh Kaplan, Pascal's Pensees, |