User:Davidals

42-year-old native of North Carolina; I've lived in Charlotte, Boone, Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Alongside varied sporadic Wikipedia contributions, I've contributed to a handful of other publications and several online sites, with cultural studies, music, film and literature as key areas of focus.



Articles started:
Botany / Plants: Citrus
 * Citrus halimii
 * Citrus macrophylla
 * Clymenia (plant)
 * Shangjuan
 * Triphasia brassii

Solanaceae
 * Solanum abutiloides
 * Solanum candidum
 * Solanum caripense
 * Solanum pseudolulo
 * Solanum repandum

Film: Film, Individual
 * An Autumn Afternoon Japan
 * Cruel Story Of Youth Japan
 * Enjo Japan
 * Humanity and Paper Balloons Japan
 * Jalsaghar India (Bengali)
 * Mahanagar India (Bengali)
 * Nayak India (Bengali)
 * Parash Pathar India (Bengali)
 * The Crucified Lovers Japan

Film Criticism
 * Our Films, Their Films (Satyajit Ray)
 * Tadao Sato

Filmmakers
 * Sadao Yamanaka Japan

Maps-Publishing:
 * Dolph Map Company
 * Geographia Map Company

Weather:
 * 1936 Cordele-Greensboro tornado outbreak
 * 1984 Carolinas tornado outbreak
 * 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak
 * April 1924 tornado outbreak
 * Enigma tornado outbreak
 * Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. tornado outbreak of 2001
 * May 1989 tornado outbreak
 * Midwest To Mid-Atlantic Tornado Outbreak
 * November 1992 tornado outbreak
 * Raleigh Tornado
 * Rye Cove, Virginia tornado outbreaks
 * Southeastern tornado outbreak of April 1957
 * Windsor Locks, Connecticut Tornado

Geography:
 * Fairview, North Carolina (town)
 * Garden Parkway
 * I-85 Corridor
 * North Carolina Research Campus

Misc:
 * North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Articles worked on:
Botany & Plants:
 * Ichang papeda
 * Papeda
 * Psidium guajava
 * Solanum cajanumense
 * Solanum quitoense
 * Solanum sessiliflorum
 * Solanum sibundoyense
 * Sudachi
 * Yuzu

Film:

Films
 * Aparajito
 * Apu trilogy
 * The Burmese Harp
 * Charulata
 * Death By Hanging
 * Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
 * Kanchenjungha
 * Meghe Dhaka Tara
 * Pather Panchali
 * Queer Boys and Girls on the Shinkansen
 * The World of Apu

Filmmakers & Actors
 * Soumitra Chatterjee
 * Ritwik Ghatak
 * Kon Ichikawa
 * Tatsuya Nakadai
 * Nagisa Oshima
 * Satyajit Ray
 * Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Film History
 * Auteur
 * Cinema of Japan
 * Cinéma vérité
 * East Asian cinema
 * List of Japanese language films
 * Nuberu bagu (Japanese New Wave) - major rewrite

Religion:
 * Buddhism in the United States

Ethnicity, Culture & Society:
 * Culture of the Southern United States

Geology:
 * Laacher See

Geography:
 * Asheville
 * Carrboro
 * Chapel Hill
 * Charlotte
 * Charlotte metropolitan area
 * Cherokee County
 * Gastonia
 * Hendersonville
 * Kannapolis
 * Megalopolis (city type)
 * The Upstate
 * Piedmont Triad - major update
 * Southeastern United States
 * Southern United States
 * The Triangle (North Carolina)
 * Waynesville
 * Wilmington

Literature:
 * Sukumar Ray

Miscellany:
 * Creative Class
 * Exquisite corpse
 * List of gay, lesbian or bisexual people

Music:
 * Polvo
 * Shugo Tokumaru

Weather:
 * 1993 North American storm complex
 * Blizzard of 1996
 * List of derecho events
 * List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
 * List of tornadoes striking downtown areas
 * Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1994
 * Super Outbreak

The Work
Jobs held have inculded writing film & music reviews, purchasing for a music distribution company, varied levels of retail, editing for publication, multi-tasking in a food co-op, and touring bassist for a rock/punk band. I began playing bass guitar when I was 17. I am listed as a contributor to the Senses Of Cinema film journal; varied bits of my writing appear on several not-especially prestigious websites.

The Hobbies
French, Italian, Iranian, Bengali, Chinese, Hong Kong, Japanese punk, post-punk, jazz, early fusion, 20th century classical, new wave, old-time, bluegrass, garage/psych, krautrock, classic rock, rock en Espanol, international garage, gamelan...On certain days I think Talking Heads and The Clash were perhaps, interchangeably, the greatest rock bands ever. primarily, but not limited to Latin-American (20th century) literature, Chinese (classical) literature, Japanese (20th century) literature, Russian, the history and evolution of certain literary and arts movements (surrealism, the Harlem renaissance, beat literature, magic realism, dada, pop art) I'm a weather geek. A long-term project is collecting and documenting the history of severe weather events (hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, ice storms) in the eastern U.S. Citrus, solanaceae, annonaceae are a few particulars. I have container-cultivated lemon, guava, strawberry guava, red guava, yuzu, calamondin, pacay, and a few other things lurking about the apartment.
 * Film
 * Music
 * Literature & Art
 * Meteorology
 * Botany

African-American history and civil rights, LGBT rights and issues, the 1960s, the 1970s social change & sociology, maps (I collect vintage street maps of American cities), Asian history, Buddhism, politics, nature and anthropology are but a few of many interests.

family
My extended family is to be found in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Wisconsin, and California; various extended family members have lived - at some point - in Jamaica, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, The Philippines, South Korea, and a handful of other notable spots. I love to travel though it doesn't happen nearly as often as I would like.

travels
Thus far, I've visited 17 states in the U.S., 86 of the 100 counties in North Carolina, and 4 other countries. There are many, many places in the world I would love to see.

quirks
I am a pisces, Meyers-Briggs INTP, and fall just below the Aspergers clinical threshold. I am a recent cancer survivor.

cred
In 1998, the PBS series P.O.V. aired the documentary Family Name (directed by New York-based filmmaker Macky Alston), which investigated in depth the family history and genealogy of both the black and white sides of my paternal family lineage. I am a distant cousin to artists Romare Bearden and Charles Alston. I was once a neighbor to an individual who played a key role in the American Civil rights movement.

Books
Jorge Luis Borges' Labyrinths Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire Bohumil Hrabal's I Served The King Of England Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard Don DeLillo's White Noise Pu Songling's Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio Han Shaogong's A Dictionary of Maqiao Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch Felipe Alfau's Locos: A Comedy of Gestures Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's Seven Japanese Tales

Music
Television's Marquee Moon Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings and Food Miles Davis' In A Silent Way Pere Ubu's The Modern Dance Pylon's Hits Eric Dolphy's Stockholm Sessions Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire Al Green's Greatest Hits The Velvet Underground's V.U. The Clash's London Calling

Films
Sansho the Bailiff Aparajito Sunset Boulevard Charulata Cleo from 5 to 7 A Touch of Zen Ugetsu Being There L'Avventura Mysterious Object at Noon

Consumption: Edibles, Not Tuberculosis
--Davidals (talk) 07:49, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

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