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  • George De Stefano

  • 54 / Male
  • LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, US
  • Last Login: 6/21/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Social theory; leftist analysis and politics; literature, music, film, art, and theater; sexuality and sexual politics; Italian/Mediterranean history and civilization; food and wine, especially southern Italian; travel

  • Music

    Jazz, esp. Coltrane, Parker, Miles, Monk, Max Roach (RIP), Ornette, Bud Powell, Joe Lovano, Sonny Rollins, Abbey Lincoln, Enico Rava, Stefano Bollani, Jackie McClean, Sam Rivers, Dexter Gordon, Don Pullen, Mingus, Paul Motian, Sonny Fortune, Don Byron, Gianluigi Trovesi; Rolling Stones; Dylan; Howlin' Wolf; Muddy Waters; Chuck Berry; Little Walter; Aretha; Billie Holiday; Lucinda Williams; Ry Cooder; Bill Frisell; African music, especially Congolese rumba; Thione Seck; Salif Keita; Franco; Orchestra Baobab; Italian neoroots, folk and "alternative" -- La Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare, Almamegretta, Lucariello, Daniele Sepe, Nidi D'Arac, Carmen Consoli, Avion Travel, Vinicio Capossela, Massimo Ferrante, Roberto Murolo, Teresa De Sio; Khaled; Pedro Luis Ferrer; Ibrahim Ferrer; Los Van Van; Willie Colon; Hector Lavoe; Oscar D'Leon; Celia Cruz; Arcade Fire; Amy Winehouse; Otis Redding; Stevie Wonder

  • Movies

    Godfather, I & II; Mean Streets; The Leopard; All About Eve; Mamma Roma; Double Indemnity; Some Like it Hot; The Lady Eve; Vertigo; The Birds; Bride of Frankenstein; Gods and Monsters; Gimme Shelter; Female Trouble; Chinatown; The Marriage of Maria Braun; Reds; A History of Violence; Scanners; Crash (Cronenberg, not that piece of shit by Haggis); Barton Fink; The Big Lebowski; O Brother Where Art Thou; Bellissima; Scarface (De Palma & Hawks versions); Grapes of Wrath; I Cento Passi; Le Conseguenze dell' amore; Seduced and Abandoned; Marriage Italian Style; Nights of Cabiria; Umberto D; I Vitelloni; We All Loved Each Other So Much; Contempt; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Invasion of the Bodysnatchers ('56 and '78 versions); The Last Waltz; Belle du Jour; Viridiana; Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About my Mother); My Beautiful Laundrette; La Ley del Deseo (Law of Desire); Life is Sweet; High Hopes; Repulsion; The Haunting (original '62 version); Steetcar Named Desire; Dog Day Afternoon; Serpico; The Long Good Friday; Crimes and Misdemeanors

  • Television

    Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, Big Love, Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Office, Ugly Betty, My Name is Earl, True Blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Seinfeld, Weeds, Mad Men

  • Books

    In no particular order: The Leopard (Lampedusa); Eustace Chisholm and The Works, Narrow Rooms, Malcolm (Purdy); A Passage to India (Forster); The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst); Invisible Man (Ellison); A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations (Dickens); Money (Amis); Midnight's Children (Rushdie); Equal Danger, Candido, One Way or the Other (Sciascia); Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano novels; Illuminations (Benjamin); The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald); The Day of the Locust (West); Things Fall Apart (Achebe); Cairo Trilogy, Midaq Alley (Mahfouz); Yacoubian Building (El Aswany); Down There on A Visit, Berlin Stories, A Single Man (Isherwood); Call Me by Your Name (Aciman); Chronicles (Dylan); Prick Up Your Ears(Lahr); Last Exit to Brooklyn (Selby); Leaves of Grass (Whitman); The Plague (Camus); Myra Breckinridge (Vidal); The Possessed (Dostoevsky)

  • Heroes

    People who work to make the world a better place and don't lose heart in the face of setbacks, repression, and the general apathy and cynicism of our timeds; artists and thinkers whose work illuminates, inspires, and challenges; my partner Rob for putting up with me for all these years

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Orientation: Gay
  • Ethnicity: Other
  • Religion: Atheist
  • Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
  • Children: I don't want kids
  • Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
  • Education: Post grad
  • Occupation: writer

Blurbs

About me:

I am an author, critic, and independent scholar living in Long Island City, Queens, New York, with Rob, my domestic partner. In 2006 I published my first book, "An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America" (Faber & Faber; Farrar, Straus, Giroux; paperback, 2007). The book explores America's long-running fascination with "The Mafia Myth," i.e., narratives of Italian and Italian American crime, from the silent film era to The Sopranos. In 2008, I spoke at a few conferences, including the Pop Conference at EMP|SFM, Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict, and Change, April 10-13, Seattle. I gave an audiovisual presentation called "21st Century WOPS: Raiz, Roy Paci, and the Cultural Politics of Migration." The presentation included video clips of these two cutting-edge southern Italian artists. In May I gave a paper at "The Sopranos: A Wake," an international conference about the departed (and missed!) HBO series. Scholars and writers from the US, Italy Europe and the UK presented on a wide (and wild) range of topics related to the show. My talk,about gay gangster Vito Spatafore and the "queering" of the Mafia genre, was well-attended and very well received. I now have a blog called "Minestrone" at the great new journalism website www.I-Italy.org. Check it out! I also write music criticism for Rootsworld.com You can find out more about me and check out some of my published writing at www.georgedestefano.com

Who I'd like to meet:

Smart, funny, cultured, irreverent people, gay and straight; left-wingers; musicians, artists and writers, social theory geeks; atheists and freethinkers; southern Italians and Sicilians, preferably queer & leftist; gay bears.

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