Church of Lost Hats
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Chaplain |
| Location | Kent, Connecticut, United States |
| Introduction | My name is Falling Hawk. I am a priest who is an English and Theology teacher. I have a passion for fiction writing and preaching and chapel talks in between. Sometimes it all comes together. Sometimes it rains, with tender fingers touching everyone. I have written two novels, Church of Lost Hats and Holy Animals. |
| Interests | Motorcycles, hiking, boxing, writing, merchant shipping, cooking, food writing, wine, Scottish and English Premier Leagues, basketball coaching, conservative political satire, tennis, skiing, animation, the life of Walt Disney, sportswriting, Spanish Comedy in the Golden Age, Irish Literature and history, art, Celtic spirituality, Paganism, European history, art history, Latin American literature, Judaism, the films of Frank Capra amd Alfred Hitchcock, Buddhism, Hinduism, maritime literature and history, baseball history, basset hounds, cricket, red-tailed hawks, bobcats, foxes, Irish studies, Native American tribes and history. |
| Favorite movies | Mary Poppins, Tangled, In Harm's Way, Amelie, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not, North by Northwest, Ratatouille, It's a Wonderful Life, The Awful Truth, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Extraordinary Seaman, Adams Rib, Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco, The Thin Man movies, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, The Bishop's Wife, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Kenw Too Much, Brideshead Revisited. |
| Favorite music | Stan Getz, Grateful Dead, Wilco, The Cure, Julie Andrews, Beastie Boys, Pink Martini, Tom Waits, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Bruce Springsteen, The Pogues, 10,000 Maniacs, Talking Heads, Richard Thompson, Billy Bragg, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, The English Beat, The Specials, Celtic musical traditions. |
| Favorite books | The House of the Spirits, References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, The Ginger Man, East of Eden, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Sometimes a Great Notion, Brideshead Revisited, Don Quixote, Decline and Fall, A Handful of Dust, Psmith in the City, Leave It to Psmith, Barchester Towers, A Room with a View, 100 Years of Solitude, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Franny and Zooey, The Magic Mountain, The Town and the City, Dharma Bums, Getting Stoned with Savages, Corelli's Mandolin, Men at Arms, The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Bhagavad Gita. |