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Relationship

Domestic partnership

Hometown

I'm from Philadelphia, (neighborhood: Fishtown)

Places I've been

Occupation(s)
Journalist, editor, teacher. Semi-retired for health reasons.

More about me

I'm a writer and a singer; I'm also a second level Reiki practicioner; I'm from a working class background; I have an off-the-wall sense of humor; love all kinds of music, and am a lifelong fan of horror movies. I'm something of a Buddhist. And most important of all, I've been in a committed relationship for 30 years with the most wonderful person in the world. If only society would allow us to make it legal.

See "Meet Jack Veasey" on my blogs page for more information.

 

Favorite Movies

The Wicker Man (original), The Wizard Of Oz, Cat People (original), The Birds, Psycho, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane? (original), The Bad Seed, The Gang's All Here, Code Of Silence, Black Orpheus, Carrie (original), Thirst, The Ruling Class, Sweetie, Eating Raoul, Phantom Of The Paradise, Metropolis, Woodstock, The Last Waltz, The Producers (original), Airplane, The Fury, Nashville, Victor/Victoria, Clerks, Inside Daisy Clover, The Groove Tube, Blood And Roses, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Gojira

Favorite TV Shows

True Blood, Bones, The X Files, Roseanne, Law & Order SVU, Frasier, The Simpsons, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under, Oz, Carnavale, M.A.S.H., Taxi, Barney Miller, Cheers, The Golden Girls, The Mike Douglas Show, Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker, The Dresden Files, Jekyll, The Outer Limits (original), Forever Knight

Activities

Writing (particularly poetry, short stories, film reviews), singing (solo and choral), watching/collecting movies, reading, long drives with my partner on beautiful days, spending quality time with my partner and my pets, meditation, Reiki healings, walks, prayer

Favorite Music

Billie Holiday, Dusty Springfield, Patsy Cline, Mahalia Jackson, Melanie, The Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, CSN&Y, The Beatles, Steely Dan, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Martha and The Vandellas, The Shirelles, Dionne Warwick, The Marvelettes, The Shangri Las, early Elton John, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Judy Garland, Fred Astaire, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Julie Andrews, Patti Labelle, Jerry Butler, Kate Bush, Laura Nyro, Bette Midler, The Ronettes, Patti Smith, Jane Olivor, Petula Clark, Ronee Blakely, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, The Grateful Dead, Jimmy Buffet, Lulu, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, Elly Stone, Stephen Sondheim, Burt Bacharach, Karen Carpenter, Janis Ian, Doo Wop, Girl Groups, Sea Shanties

Favorite Books

The Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Stephen Mitchell's translation; The Little Prince, by Antoine St. Exupery; Isabel Rawsthorne Standing In A Street In Soho, The Blue Scar, and Shaman Body, by Alexandra Grilikhes (poetry); A Full Heart, by Edward Field (poetry); Writing Down The Bones, by Natalie Goldberg; Parachutes, by Shirley Powell (poems & short stories); Collected Sonnets, by Edna St. Vincent Millay; Doing It With Style, by Quentin Crisp & Donald Carroll; Revelations, by Diane Arbus; AmphiGorey 1 & 2, by Edward Gorey; The Essential Bogosian, by Eric Bogosian; The Dhammapada, P. Lal's translation; The Intimate Art Of Writing Poetry, by Ottone M. Riccio; short stories by M.R. James, Ambrose Bierce, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Saki, Lafcadio Hearn, Algernon Blackwood, HP Lovecraft

Favorite Quotes

You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities, but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. -- Quentin Crisp. You become responsible forever for what you have tamed. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint Exupery. He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. -- Lao Tzu.

Favorite People

SoundGuy

Favorite Places

Bullfrog Valley Pond, near Hershey; 30th St. Station, Philadelphia; Oklawaha River, Okala National Forest, Florida; Hummelstown Cemetery

Favorite Animals

groundhogs, rabbits, cats, chipmunks, deer, cows, wolves, black bears. I'm also very fond of ducks and enjoy feeding them. And I admire alligators from a distance.

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