Screenwriting, Filmmaking, Drum Corps, Movies, TV, playing music, listening to music, traveling, birds, spending time with family and friends, laughlng, loving, living...!
Music
Earth Wind and Fire, Boston, Keith Green, My Chemical Romance, Patsy Cline, Juliana Nash, Queen, Stevie Wonder, Mahalia Jackson, Richard Thompson, Ian Shaw, Bread, Lea DeLaria, Elton John, Show Tunes, Neil Young, the Partridge Family (seriously), Funktional Loonacy, John Lennon, Nelson, Mamas and Papas, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Janet Jackson, Pet Shop Boys, Jane Olivor, way too many to list. My all-time favorite song (my THEME song) is "Peace of Mind" by Boston.
Movies
Blazing Saddles, Airplane, Young Frankenstein, West Side Story, The Godfather Trilogy, It's a Wonderful Life, Aliens, Ghost, Fame, Hair, The Color Purple, Schindler's List, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Jesus Christ Supertar, Back to the Future, Tootsie, Mommie Dearest, Titanic, A Clockwork Orange, Ruthless People, Hairspray (both versions), the Producers (both versions), The Birdcage, Torch Song Trilogy...way, way, way too many to list.
Television
Scrubs, Frasier, Ugly Betty, Family Guy, The Simpsons, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Mad TV, Grey's Anatomy, Golden Girls, Freaks and Geeks, The Sopranos, Will and Grace, Six Feet Under, South Park, The Nanny, All in the Family, I Love Lucy, Roseanne, All-American Girl, Dirty Sally, Petrocelli, the Waltons, Maude, Secrets of Midland Heights, the "To Catch a Predator" series (I LOVE it when they bust those sleazeballs, especially when the cameras come out!), LOGO, The L Word and many others.
Books
I mostly read non-fiction and screenplays. My favorite non-fiction is Hollywood 101 by Frederick Levy.
Heroes
My mommy, my daddy, my Aunt Shane, my brother Michael, my cousin Rachel and, of course, Dr. King.
Gena's Details
Status:
In a Relationship
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
Beacon, NY
Body type:
5' 6"
Ethnicity:
Black / African descent
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Aquarius
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Gena's Schools
New York University
New York, NY
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Other
Major: Certificate in Filmmaking
Minor: Screenwriting
I look so stoned in this pic. I assure you that I'm not.
I guess the first thing that I would like folks to know about me is that I am a genuinely GOOD person whose Life Philosophy is to have as much fun as possible without hurting anyone. I am also an aspiring screenwriter still waiting for my big break at age 48. I'm looking forward to great news this year, though! I have a wonderful family (sibs, aunts, cousins, etc.) and awesome friends and I love spending time with them.
Here are some pics of my family, my friends and me:
Me and my "other half" Matt Larkin at Venice Beach, CA in December 1989. We described each other as "the same person in two different bodies." We'd been BFFs since we were kids in '76. In October 2001, we were both admitted to the same floor of the same hospital on the same day...I with a raging infection and 104 fever; he with complications from "the Big A." He passed away the next day without either of us knowing that the other was there, although we'd both sent messages to each other. Bittersweet in a way. I miss him to pieces every day!
Cosmic connection between Matt, my other BFF Jim Durso ("the Big A" got him in '94) and me: My real first name is "Eugena." Jim's middle name was "Eugene." Matt's middle name was "Gene" after his uncle Eugene. I met Jim in Drama Club in high school and met Matt after he recognized me from seeing me in a high school play. I found out later that Matt and Jim knew each other from Catholic school. Strange, but true...sort of like the Lincoln-Kennedy connection...
...so there!
Who I'd like to meet: Whomever God has in store for me to meet who will have a positive impact on my life.
I've moved all of my videos over here because I didn't want them scrolling over my mommy's face. Isn't she beautiful? You should have seen her in person!
Here is a video of me and my friends Raquel and Jeff marching in the 1994 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade with the Summer Music Games All-Star Drum and Bugle Corps (I'm actually visible throughout the clip and even in the capture below):
Here is a favorite song of mine. I had been searching for it for years and finally found this video online. Remember the "Blue Balloon" song from the movie "Jeremy" with Robby Benson? Well, here it is:
This is a very moving video by Melange Lavonne called Gay Bash. It's a message to all of those "so-called Christians" who are anything but Christ-like when they spew hate against ANYone:
And now for a bit of levity. This is a VERY funny video featuring the VERY funny Scott Thompson and Conan O'Brien:
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OMG sis I'm on FB too, I play all those daft games LOL...you still got my email????
I had a job interview today and got a call later to say I've got the job so I'm a working girl now hehehe, it's nursing auxiliary in the operating room!
Good Morning Gena, How are you doing? sure have missed hearing from you sis...... glitter-graphics.com Hope this finds you having a great start to a wonderful Sunday.... glitter-graphics.com We are having thunderstorms here in Kansas and I am loving it!!!!!! glitter-graphics.com Nothing like laying in bed and enjoying the sound of rain and thunder on a beautyful sunday morning.... with love and respect always Sonja
Come on kids Just two clicks once a day and you could get me an audition for "The Big Gay Sketch Show" It's easier then taking your birth control and a lot more fun. If you could just cut and paste the link or try Clicking
Hey Gina hun No worries...I know how it goes! Hope all is ok ur way...did those parrots ever turn up? Hope 2009 is all you wish for and more ! xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
