User:Davidals

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36-year-old native of North Carolina; I've lived in Charlotte, Boone, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Alongside varied sporadic Wikipedia contributions, I've contributed to a handful of other publications and several online sites, with cultural studies, music, film and literature as key areas of focus.

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Jobs held have inculded writing film & music reviews, purchasing for a music distribution company, varied levels of retail, editing for publication, and touring bassist for a rock/punk band. I began playing bass guitar when I was 17. I am listed as a contributor to the Senses Of Cinema film journal; varied bits of my writing appear on several not-especially prestigious websites.

Film (especially East Asian, Indian and Iranian), music, literature (especially Latin American, Russian, Chinese, Indian), the history and evolution of certain literary and arts movements (surrealism, the Harlem renaissance, beat literature, magic realism, dada, pop art), the media, weather (especially tornadoes, hurricanes and winter storms in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S.), African-American history and civil rights, the 1960s, social change & sociology, Asian history, Buddhism, politics, nature and anthropology are but a few of many interests.

My extended family is scattered across 8 states on both coasts of the U.S.; I love to travel though it doesn't happen nearly as often as I would like. Thus far, I've visited 17 states in the U.S., 86 of the 100 counties in North Carolina, and 4 other countries. There are many, many places in the world I would love to see.

In 1998, the PBS series P.O.V. aired the documentary Family Name (directed by New York-based filmmaker Macky Alston), which investigated in depth the family history and genealogy of both the black and white sides of my paternal family lineage. I am a distant cousin to artists Romare Bearden and Charles Alston.

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Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths
Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire
Bohumil Hrabal's I Served The King Of England
Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard
Don DeLillo's White Noise
Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio
Han Shaogong's A Dictionary of Maqiao
Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch
Felipe Alfau's Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's Seven Japanese Tales

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Television's Marquee Moon
Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food
Miles Davis' In A Silent Way
Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance
Pylon's Hits
Eric Dolphy's Stockholm Sessions
Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire
Al Green's Greatest Hits
The Velvet Underground's V.U.
The Clash's London Calling

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Sansho the Bailiff
Aparajito
Sunset Boulevard
Charulata
Cleo from 5 to 7
A Touch of Zen
Ugetsu
Being There
L'Avventura
Mysterious Object at Noon

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Affiliations This user's ethnicity is African American. This user is proud to be African American. This user is a transplanted Appalachian. This user is a Buddhist. This user lives in or hails from Charlotte, North Carolina. This user is a member of WikiProject Films. This user is a participant of WikiProject Japan. This user is a member of WikiProject Meteorology and Weather Events. This user lives in or hails from North Carolina. This user is a member of WikiProject North Carolina. This user is a member of the Novels WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject Punk music.

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