Weddle
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher, writer |
| Location | Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States |
| Introduction | My name is Jeff Weddle. I teach in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. I write scholarly and professional things, plus poetry, fiction, stuff like that. |
| Interests | Family, reading, writing, teaching, movies, Tae Kwon Do, Kentucky basketball, Alabama Football, UFOs, all things great and small |
| Favorite movies | Anything featuring Humphrey Bogart or a starship. If it has Bogart aboard a starship, well, that never happened. But it would be so cool if it had. More specifically, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, High Sierra, Dark Passage, The Man Who Would Be King, Psycho, Rear Window, North by Northwest, Barfly, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Jack of Hearts, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Gone with the Wind, The Apartment, Jesus Camp, The Outsiders of New Orleans: Loujon Press, The Philadelphia Story, Bringing Up Baby, The Front Page, His Girl Friday, Night on Earth, Happy Accidents, This Island Earth, Forbidden Planet, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Matrix, Rocky, Hoosiers, To Kill a Mockingbird, Desk Set, Blade Runner, Kill and Kill Again, Enter the Dragon.The Whole Wide World, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Sunset Boulevard, Little Miss Sunshine, Juno, The Time of Your Life, Bus Stop, The Seven Year Itch, Breakfast at Tiffany, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Henry Foole, Fay Grimm, Corndog Man, Rocky Horror, Lillies of the Field |
| Favorite music | Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, REM, Townes Van Zandt, Linda Rondstat, The Who, Rolling Stones, Hank Williams, Blondie, 10,000 Maniacs, Lou Reed, Ramones, John Prine, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Phil Spector, Gordon Lightfoot, Richard Thompson, Fleetwood Mac, Tom T. Hall, Dolly Parton, Beatles, Guy Clark, Billie Holliday, Al Stewart,Bob Dylan, Elvis, Kris Kristoferson, Pink Floyd, Jimmy Buffett, Buddy Holly, ELO |
| Favorite books | Bukowski, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Carver, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Bradbury, McCullers, Caldwell, O'Conner, Brautigan, Hunter S. Thompson, Harper Lee, Barry Hannah, Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Cookie Mueller, etc., etc., etc. |