Devin McKinney
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Museums or Libraries |
| Location | South Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | "I suspect that it may be regrettable, but, though I am much of a builder, I can't be somewhat happy, as a writer, unless also I'm mauling something." — Charles Fort |
| Interests | music, movies, literature esp archaic and obscure, guitars, ghosts & the occult, skepticism & mysticism, US sociocultural history, pop criticism, horror stories, small deserted public parks, side streets, unused rooms, rear windows, psychology, death, dreams, the dark |
| Favorite movies | once upon a time in the west, bunuel, persona, the royal tenenbaums, the deer hunter, dr strangelove, fantasia, hitchcock, un chien andalou, frederick wiseman, kenneth anger, lynch, henry fonda, the unbearable lightness of being, taxi driver, american graffiti, mccabe & mrs miller, modern times, the office, the red riding trilogy |
| Favorite music | beatles, motown, ska, sex pistols, smokey, world party, orbison, morricone, costello, everlys, doo wop, brill bldg, girl groups, spector, neko case, billy stewart, cat stevens, ray davies, brian wilson, deep soul, reggae comps, irma thomas, funkadelic, carter burwell, dion, grin, dusty springfield |
| Favorite books | lolita, garbo & the night watchmen, advertisements for myself, moby dick, fifth business, i lost it at the movies, the catcher in the rye, the sound & the fury, the sun also rises, usa, the great gatsby, travels with dr death, in cold blood, lipstick traces, howards end, magic & myth of the movies, studies in classic american literature, pop from the beginning, the death of ivan ilyich, slaughterhouse 5, the amityville horror, the american earthquake, the execution of private slovik, who killed george jackson, the manchurian candidate, appointment in samarra, death in the afternoon |