Jon Gregory
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | newspaper copy editor |
| Location | Corpus Christi, Texas, United States |
| Introduction | Jon Gregory is a journalist and poet/writer living in Corpus Christi, Texas. He was born July 27, 1956, in Mathis, Texas, at 3:35 A.M. (They actually screwed up the time on his birth certificate. This is what his mother and the doctor recorded, and he thinks they were there.) His poems, short stories and essays have been published in The American Dissident, The Dallas Review, Contexas, The DFW Poetry Review, the Austin International Poetry Festival's annual anthology, in Map of Austin Poetry e-zine, and elsewhere. He has a B.A. from Texas Lutheran University, where he won two short-story prizes from the English department and was associate editor of the literary magazine; and an M.A. from Corpus Christi State University (now Texas A&M-CC). He is now a grateful refugee from academia. He doesn't usually write in synch with the times and trends; he also hates rejection, and he's impatient and lazy. So, he's actually done well to get this much published. He hopes that online self-publishing will be a lot better than doing the paper chapbooks that other poets sometimes reluctantly buy and often never read. |
| Interests | Cinema, literature, political philosophy, alcoholic libations, good food, mass media, metaphysics, intelligent conversation about things that actually matter. |
| Favorite Movies | The complete list would be too long, but here are some that have made a big impact (No remakes here): The Bride of Frankenstein, Citizen Kane, Double Indemnity, The Best Years of Our Lives, Out of the Past, Sunset Boulevard, The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, The Asphalt Jungle, The Killing, A Place in the Sun, Night of the Hunter, Kiss Me Deadly, Anatomy of a Murder, Psycho, Vertigo, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Harper, The Last Picture Show, The Godfather Parts I and II, Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Sophie's Choice, Klute, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Blue Velvet, The Hustler, All the King's Men, Belle de Jour, La Strada, Nights of Cabiria, The Wages of Fear, Midnight Cowboy, Nobody Waved Goodbye, Blazing Saddles, Duck Soup, Horsefeathers, The Last Hurrah, Bad Day at Black Rock, Lost Horizon, Unforgiven, In Cold Blood, Days of Heaven, The Wild One, A Streetcar Named Desire, On the Waterfront, Dirty Harry (yes, I honestly think that is a superior film), Sleeper, Bananas, Barfly, Steppenwolf, Moulin Rouge (not the recent one!!!), The Doors, Natural Born Killers, The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River (1938 documentary), Point Blank, The Professionals, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Bonnie and Clyde, Detour, Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hud, The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country. |
| Favorite Music | My taste is wide-ranging, but I seem to have special affinity for modern jazz 1945-1965, late 19th-century and 20th-century Russian classical-style composers, and golden-age '60s-'70s rock (Beatles, Doors, Hendrix, Dead, Guess Who, Traffic, Steely Dan, some Dylan, and lesser-known artists). |
| Favorite Books | Lots, but see home page for some special favorites. |