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About Me

CINEGRITUDE..LET IT BE!!
Cinephile, jazz aficionado, pan-Africanist, electronica/basshead, lover of dollhouses, animal lover, feminist, POC environmental activist, vegetarian (most of the time!), world travel junkie/world citizen and lover of all things African i.e. the arts, science(s), music and destinations (city and countryside).
Diggin'and have dug the film, music, fine arts scene in the U.S. and what's happening in Londontown, Joburg/Capetown, Kingston, Berlin, Rio/Bahia/Sao Paulo, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and how its evolving and changing and resisting...... soakin'up, sharin', bein' influenced and inspired by....
No such thing as authenticity, we are all variations and mirrors of each other.......
Oh, and sweet Mother Earth, she's growing weary ya'll....like sista Ursula Rucker says "My wounds are deep... They've loved me as would an unfaithful lover, part-time and half-assed--with nevers & nothings!
Cultural warrior/library director at Harvard by day and the rest of the time, a steady diet of film and music--watching, writing and supporting the Beautiful Ones who are blessed to live and make art 100%. Here to connect (and share) ideas, commonalities and resources. Word.
Dogonland comes from the Dogon country of Mali, a sojourn that changed my life.
Nice rules I try to live by: accentuate the positive and follow your bliss.......and a follower of that Arab proverb (shared by Thich Nhat Hahn) about speech passing through 3 gatekeepers: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

My Interests

BEST FILM IN YEARS!!! "BAMAKO", dir. by ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO

I'd like to meet:

Decent and respectful people, mindful of their deeds and actions; OK with distinguishing righteous anger and bad/rude behavior; folks trying to sift through our relationship with capitalism and how that informs everything and everything else...those considerate and kind to all forms of life.

Travelers, jazz buffs, activists, the two-spirited, bassheads, writers, philosophers, wanderers, painters, drag kings and queens, shape-shifters, Freaks-of-the-Week, Femmes, Butches, pan-Africanists, fellow world citizens, vegetarians, deejays, rudeboys, punk-rockers, trannies, cultural workers, DXers, sailors, filmmakers, librarians, gardeners, miniaturists, poets, etc.

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Righteous Performance Artist, Holly Bass

Maverick Director, Zola Maseko

Music:

Jazz.....Jazz....Jazz and all of its variants....

Wicked and wickedly wicked Drum and Bass, Trip Hop, and Trance and any DUB-related sound 'cause...."When it's louder, I feel safer...."

R and B, and all that badass soul music comin'homegrown and from the UK and surrounds, traditional and contemporary West African music, high life, juju, Afro-Beat, bossa nova, bhangra--big up Desi Nation!!, everything from the Caribbean, funk, classic rock and pop and soul of the '60's, '70's, and '80's, big band and swing.

Conceptual Soulmate, Bro. DJ Spooky

Legendary Bi Kidude

Sister Miriam Makeba-PURE JOY!!

DJ SPOOKY'S "REBIRTH OF A NATION"

Movies:

DIRECTORS: Almodovar and more Almodovar!!!, Alfred Hitchcock, Tony Richardson, John Sayles, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Akira Kurosawa, Charles Burnett, Djibril Diop Mambety, Zhang Yimou, Julie Dash, Mira Nair, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Jim Jarmusch, Francois Truffaut, Otto Preminger, Chantel Ackerman, Mira Nair, John Ford, Julie Dash, Stanley Kubrick, Sir Richard Attenborough, Peter Bogdanovich, Woody Allen, Ousmane Sembene, Euzhan Palcy, Michael Apted, and Stephen Frears...

Television:

Still wonderin'what happened to the network "Movie of the Week" and VHF/UHF channels!!

Books:

AUTHORS: Bessie Head, Chris Abani, Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Franz Fanon, Samuel Selvon, Zadie Smith, Maryse Conde, Zora Neale Hurston, Willa Cather, Sam Delaney, Octavia Butler, Howard Zinn, Wole Soyinka, Ben Okri, Jorge Amado, Sarah Waters, Hilary Mantel, Junot Diaz, Edwidge Danticat, Lucille Clifton, William Trevor, Jeanette Winterston, Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Ama Ata Aidoo, Bessie Head, and James Baldwin.

My Blog

16 DAYS OF ACTIVISM AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE BEGINS TODAY!!

16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence begins today. Violence against women is something that cuts across all ages, nationalities, religions and cultures. Most of us have either experienced viole...
Posted by Dogonland on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:45:00 PST

Jennifer Holliday--Grazie Maestra!!!

I attended the New England HRC Gala last night at the Boston Waterfront Westin. A lovely, inspiring event.So there's the 900 plus predominantly white audience (maybe 30 black folks) and the main honor...
Posted by Dogonland on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:40:00 PST

SO DAMIEN, WHO DID PAY £50M FOR YOUR DIAMOND SKULL?

Hmm..Daniel Hirst just rolled out a diamond-encrusted skull made from a cast of an 18th Century man's skull--original teeth and all the diamonds are "conflict-free".... The piece is titled, "For the L...
Posted by Dogonland on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

LUCILLE CLIFTON TO THE RESCUE

Sharin' some for real from Lucille Clifton--what a national and Pan-African treasure!! The ancestors left me with many mothers.BLESSING THE BOATS by Lucille Clifton(at St. Mary's)may the tidethat is e...
Posted by Dogonland on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:14:00 PST

THE FAME GAME....

Been thinkin' a lot about fame and it's affectation on how we connect with pop culture, fashion, the media, each other, etc. And I'm on my way to the Toronto Film Festival--excited and in that weird s...
Posted by Dogonland on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:02:00 PST

Ousmane Sembène--Rest In Peace, My Muse, My Angel at the Table

"Of all African film directors, Sembene is the first to confer value to images."--Med HondoI've written so much on the man and his work so I'm not sure how to pull it all together while feeling so sad...
Posted by Dogonland on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:27:00 PST