Personal Info- Display Name
- Funkylb
- Age When You Came Out
- age 5, GOLDSTAR DYKE!
- Sexual Orientation
- Lesbian
- City
- Philadelphia
- State
- PA
- Country
- USA
- Profession
- musician/info scientist
- Relationship Status
- Single
- Race / Ethnicity
- Black, Puerto Rican
- Gender
- Female
- Bio
- Multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, audio engineer, recreational long distance runner, serious cineaste, voracious reader, pop culture freak. The NY Times Book Review is my best friend.
- My Homepage
- http://www.myspace.com/funkylbmusic
- Favorite Books
- Edith Wharton: House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, Gloria Naylor: Mama Day, Baileys Cafe, Sarah Waters: Affinity, Lillian Faderman: To Believe in Women: What Lesbians have done for America, Audre Lorde: Zami, Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure, Barbara Creed: Monstrous Feminine: Film Feminism and Psychoanalysis, Toni Morrison: Sula Jazz, Alison Plowden: Elizabeth I, Radclyffe Hall: Well of Loneliness, Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, Susan Straight: A Million Nightingales, Judith Butler: Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity, Isabel Allende: House of the Spirits, Laura Mulvey: Visual and Other Pleasures (seminal work of the filmic male gaze), Pablo Neruda: Cien Sonetos de Amor, Nella Larsen: Quicksand and Passing, Alison Weir: The Six Wives of Henry VIII Rhonda Wilcox: Fighting the Forces: Whats At Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights, A.M. Homes: The End of Alice, Steve Lodder: Stevie Wonder: A Musical Guide to the Classic Albums, Bart Schneider: Beautiful Inez (who would have thought a straight guy could write a lesbian love story so affectingly?)
- Favorite Lesbian/Bi TV or Movie Characters
- Jessie and Katie: Once and Again, Willow and Tara: Buffy, Faith: Buffy. Rhonda: Relativity, Kima: HBOs The Wire, Original Cindy: Dark Angel, Helen and Nikki: Bad Girls, Spencer and Ashley: South of Nowhere
- Favorite Musicians / Bands
- Stevie Wonder, Meshell Ndegeocello, Curtis Mayfield, Rufus Wainright, Ani DiFranco, Prince, the film scores of Quincy Jones, jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding, Minnie Ripperton, jazz pianist Bill Evans, Nirvana, Donny Hathaway, Bach, The Brand New Heavies, jam band Soulive, The Derek Trucks Band, pre 1990s Eri Clapton, Puccini, Jill Scott, Motown session bassist James Jamerson, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman, jazz tenor saxman Lester Young, James Browns many rhythm sections, Dave Matthews, Esthero, Cassandra Wilson, DAngelo, The Gabe Dixon Band, Jimi Hendrix, Van Hunt, Brad Mehldau, Jaco Pastorius,
- Favorite TV Shows
- The Sopranos, Gilmore Girls (gone, but never forgotten!), Pushing Daisies, L Word, Showtimes Weeds, Showtimes Dexter (I just got into this show) HBOs Big Love, HBOs The Wire, Real Time with Bill Maher, Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, Pardon the Interruption on ESPN, Greys Anatomy (although Shonda Rhimes & Co. have been trying my patience of late!), South of Nowhere (when they let Splashley be in love), Food TVs Home Cooking w/ Paula Deen, LOGOs Noahs Arc, Bravos Work Out, Sheer Genius and Top Chef, FXs The Riches with Minnie Driver, TNTs The Closer w/ Kyra Sedgwick, FXs Damages
- Favorite Movies
- Kieslovski: Three Colors Trilogy (Blue, White, Red), Kieslovski Decalogue, Spike Lee: Malcolm X, Fried Green Tomatoes, Brother From Another Planet, Love Jones, Birth, Allison Anders: Grace of My Heart, Almodovar: All About My Mother Talk To Her, Kissing Jessica Stein, Age of Innocence, Altman: Nashville, John Sayles: Lone Star, Kasi Lemmons: Eves Bayou, Win Wenders: Wings of Desire, Woody Allen: Annie Hall,
History- Member for
- 5 years 27 weeks
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