Lawrence Everett Forbes

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About me

Gender	Male
Location	Savannah, Georgia, United States
Introduction	Writer, professor, performer, culture junkie, adventurer, professional Brooklynite, and serious bourgeois dork.
Interests	Words, music, movies, art, traveling, pop culture, deconstructionism, cycling, rollerblading, sleeping, occasional video gaming (Atari 2600 and original NES), life experience, decorative mischief, tomfoolery, and world domination
Favorite Movies	I Heart Huckabees, Little Miss Sunshine, Deconstructing Harry, The Matador, Fahrenheit 451, Team America: World Police, Big Eden, Best in Show, West Side Story, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Singin' in the Rain, Being John Malkovich, Half-Baked, Terminator 2, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, Airplane
Favorite Music	the Andrews Sisters, Tori Amos, Aphex Twin, Fiona Apple, Arling and Cameron, Louis Armstrong, the Beatles, Beck, Andy Bey and the Bey Sisters, Bitter:Sweet, Bjork, Mary J. Blige, Jon Brion, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Ray Charles, Sheryl Crow, Nikka Costa, Elvis Costello, Culture, Terence Trent D'Arby (now Sananda Maitreya), Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Five Star, Roberta Flack, Ben Folds, Aretha Franklin, PJ Harvey, Hole, Billie Holiday, Janis Ian, Etta James, Rickie Lee Jones, Kiki and Herb, Lambert, Hedricks & Ross, Lyle Lovett, Matmos, Nellie McKay, Charles Mingus, Kylie Minogue, Joni Mitchell, Mos Def, Me'Shell Ndgeocello, Willie Nelson, Stevie Nicks, Odetta, K.T. Oslin, OutKast, Dolly Parton, Michael Penn, the Pharcyde, Radiohead, Sade, Nina Simone, Denzal Sinclaire, Spoon, Steely Dan, Tindersticks, Suzanne Vega, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Caron Wheeler, Lucinda Williams, Cassandra Wilson, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, Los Zafiros, Zero 7, and so, so, so many more
Favorite Books	Art &; Lies (Jeanette Winterson), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace), Spoon River Anthology (Edgar Lee Masters), How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (Toby Young), Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh), The Sweetest Taboo: Homosexuality in Black Communities (edited by Delroy Constantine-Simms), Mumbo Jumbo (Ishmael Reed), Barrel Fever (David Sedaris), Beloved (Toni Morrison), and The Story of Ferdinand (Munro Leaf) are Hall of Famers, as well as just about anything by James Baldwin and Pablo Neruda

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