W. Jeff Bishop

My blogs

Gender	Male
Occupation	Journalist / Public Historian
Location	Newnan, GA, United States
Introduction	Jeff is a journalist and public historian who lives with his wife and five children in Newnan, Georgia.
Interests	Hiking the Appalachian Trail, genealogy, Native American myth and history, historic preservation.
Favorite Movies	Duck Soup, Singin' In the Rain, Apocalypse Now, King Kong (1933), The Godfather I and II, Wizard of Oz, It's a Wonderful Life, Citizen Kane, The Graduate, RAN, Scenes From a Marriage, Brazil, This Is Spinal Tap, Do the Right Thing, The Decalogue, Aliens, anything by Zhang Yimou, anything by Alexander Payne.
Favorite Music	The Lomax Collection, Kelly Hogan, James Brown, Public Enemy, 1812, Gershwin, all the Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald duets, Van Halen.
Favorite Books	Leaves of Grass by Whitman; The Blank Slate by Pinker; The Power of Myth by Campbell; Cherokee Myths and Sacred Formulas by Mooney; The Sacred and the Profane by Eliade; Lies My Teacher Told Me by Loewen; Old Frontiers by Brown; The Mind's I by Hofstadter; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Wittgenstein, Shakespeare.