A chocolate peanut 🟤🥜 Co-host of the Understanding Movies weekly exploration of cinemagic. Check out our replays and Letterboxd page to see and hear about what we’ve been watching at the Understanding Movies house 👇🏾. Born in West Virginia, raised in Central Pennsylvania, emigre to Harlem. New Yorker 🍎 US Army Veteran 🪖 BA Philosophy + Computer Science 📚🖥 IT professional x 30+ years 🖥 Harlem affordable homeownership advocate 💲 🏢 High-quality education advocate 🎓 Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Philosophical Investigations Ludwig Wittgenstein Good grief… Charlie Brown I 💊 cinematherapy 2001: A Space Odyssey Alex Haley’s Roots (TV mini-series) Michelangelo Antonioni’s Trilogy of Decadence Akira Ben Hur Brazil Blade Runner Casablanca Claudine Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind Crooklyn Devil in a Blue Dress Imitation of Life It’s a Wonderful Life Jackie Brown Krzysztof Kieslowski The Decalogue Three Colors: Blue, White, Red My Neighbor Totoro Smoke Too Kill a Mockingbird The Umbrellas of Cherbourg The West Wing (TV series) The Wire (TV series) Y Tu Mama Tambien Photobook collector 📷 📚 Richard Avedon Dawoud Bey Roy DeCarava Walker Evans Farm Security Administration (FSA) Paul Graham Lewis Hine Jacques Henri Latrigue Helen Levitt Magnum Photographers Vivian Maier Gordon Parks Eugene Richards W. Eugene Smith James Van Der Zee Jeff Wall Most influential books 📚🧨🔮🕳💊 The Bible Calvin + Hobbes Complete Works (Bill Watterson) Cerebus (Dave Sim & Gerhard) Don Quixote (Cervantes) Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) James Baldwin Collected Essays On Photography (Susan Sontag) Peanuts (Charles M. Schulz) Philosophical Investigations (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The Photobook: A History (Martin Parr & George Badger) The Power of Positive Thinking (Norman Vincent Peale) The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner) Toni Morrison Collected Works Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud) Vladmir Nabokov Collected Works ENFP-A