Son of Baldwin

• Age: 38
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Taurus
• Zodiac Year: Boar
• Industry: Publishing
• Occupation: Writer
• Location: Brooklyn : NY : United States

About Me

Writer, Thinker, Iconoclast, Polemicist, Non-conformist, Provocateur, Citizen, Geek; Admirer of Morrison, Son of Baldwin! (Son of Baldwin photo by Keith Zackowitz and Son of Baldwin).

Interests

• Writing
• reading
• comic books
• music
• film.

Favorite Movies

• Beloved
• Five Deadly Venoms
• Malcolm X
• Claudine
• Bamboozled
• Jungle Fever
• Love-Jones
• The Best Man
• Baby Boy
• The Stepford Wives (1975)
• Apocalypto
• Raising Victor Vargas
• There Will Be Blood
• Ma Vie En Rose

Favorite Music

• John Coltrane
• Billie Holiday
• Mahalia Jackson
• The Pilgrim Travelers
• Dorothy Love Coates & The Gospel Harmonettes
• The Soul Sitrrers
• Five Blind Boys of Alabama
• The Swan Silverstones
• Sam Cooke
• John Coltrane
• Marvin Gaye
• Gladys Knight (and the Pips)
• Jimi Hendrix
• Janis Joplin
• The Beatles (the Psychedelic era)
• Jefferson Airplane
• The Staples Singers
• Diana Ross
• Donny Hathaway
• Patti LaBelle
• Roberta Flack
• Rufus & Chaka Khan
• The Jacksons
• Bonnie Raitt
• Prince (pre-Jehovah's Witness)
• Dougie Fresh
• Slick Rick
• Salt-N-Pepa
• Michael Jackson (pre-Bad)
• Janet Jackson
• Public Enemy
• Boogie Down Productions
• The Notorious B.I.G.
• Jay-Z
• Brandy
• A Tribe Called Quest
• De La Soul
• D'Angelo
• Erykah Badu
• Maxwell
• Bilal
• Jill Scott
• Tweet
• System of a Down
• Marilyn Manson
• Robert Glasper

Favorite Books

• James Baldwin
• Toni Morrison
• Samuel R. Delany
• Richard Wright
• Ralph Ellison
• Virginia Woolf
• Herman Melville
• Henry James
• Anne Carson
• Joan Didion
• Junot Diaz
• Howard Zinn
• J.M. Coetzee