David Neil Drews
My blogs
| Industry | Communications or Media |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer, Tutor, Publicist, Filmmaker, Financial Analyst |
| Introduction | Thank you for visiting. |
| Interests | literature, history, U.S. politics, foreign affairs, sports, culture, a secure and viable Palestinian state and safe Israeli state, REITs, film, music, sculpture, collage, human behavior, The Humane Society, The University of Tennessee, and Doctors without Borders. |
| Favorite movies | King of Comedy, Only Lovers Left Alive, Bonnie and Clyde, Jacobs Ladder, On the Waterfront, Modern Times, Marathon Man, Midnight Express, Animal Crackers, It's a Wonderful Life, Jaws, Schindler's List, Dr. Calagari, Dead Man, Down by Law, Mystery Train, Casablanca, Alien, The Graduate, Badlands, In Cold Blood, In the Heat of the Night, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing, Slacker, 400 Blows, Fandango, The Big Parade, Female Trouble, Hotel Budapest, Fargo, Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, Paper Moon, The Natural, The Sting, Vanishing Point, Serpico, Stranger Than Paradise, Giant, Breathless, Time of the Gypsies, All of the President's Men, My Dinner with Andre, Nine Men Out, The Thin Blue Line, Ghosts Before Breakfast, Castro Street, City Lights, My Own Private Idaho, Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, Fiddler on the Roof, and The Godfather. |
| Favorite music | Talking Heads, Billy Bragg, Wood Brothers, Herbie Hancock, Skatalites, That Petrol Emotion, Tom Waits, REM, Cake, The Grateful Dead, The Band, Widespread Panic, Medeski Martin and Wood, Joe Walsh, Beatles, Steve Winwood, Police, Allman Brothers, Sun Ra, Boogarins, Benjamin Booker, Valerie June, Phillip Glass, Chopin, The Silos, Stephan Grappelli, The Waterboys, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Louque, Paleface, Marbin, Nels Kline, Fishbone, Souled American, Adam Arcuragi, U2, The Pretenders, Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Replacements, Loyd Cole, Neil Diamond, Tony Bennett, Susan Vega, Bjork, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Ornette Coleman, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, The Bad Plus, Yasmine Hamdan, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Leon Russell, Little Feat, The Skatellites, English Beat, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams Sr.,Bombino, Dolly Parton, Maya Beiser, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Norah Jones, Leyla McCalla, Supertramp, ELO, Glenn Campbell, Billie Holiday, Debbie Harry, Ma Rainy, Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrain, Big Joe Williams, Louis Armstrong, Dr. John, Yank Rachel, Howard Armstrong, Sleepy John Estes, ,Chico Marx, Echo and the Bunnymen, Andy Williams,Gomez, Iggy Pop, Lounge Lizards, Steely Dan, Steve Winwood, Paleface, Scott Joplin |
| Favorite books | Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Jungle, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Howl, Leaves of Grass, Les Miserable, The Stranger, The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley, Pere Goriot, The Alienist, Confederacy of Dunces, Old Man and the Sea, The Bluest Eye, Double Whammy, On the Road, Illuminations, The Essential Rumi, Tales of Beatnik Glory, Frankenstein, A Tale of Two Cities, 1984, Brave New World, The Red Badge of Courage, The Odyssey, Animal Farm, Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Sometimes a Great Notion, Letters from Earth, Huck Finn, The Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Prince of Tides, Angela's Ashes, Bright Lights Big City, Generation X, and In Cold Blood. |