Erik Dryden
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Auburn, AL, United States |
| Introduction | Life is always absurd. If my blogs are about anything, they are about this. Please visit both of my blogs, Against the Flood (www.againsttheflood.com) and Erik's Book-A-Day Blog (bookadayblog.blogspot.com). Feel free to contribute in whatever way you can, whether it's by commenting on my posts, sharing on Facebook or your own blog, signing up as a follower of this blog, or joining the email list. |
| Interests | Reading, writing, art, music, nature, people, social psychology, cognition, memory, truth, belief, silence, solitude, anxiety, fear, women, love, hate, life, death, religion, courage, cowardice, moderation, excess, authority, rebellion, innocence, ignorance, thought, enlightenment. |
| Favorite Movies | The Fallen Idol, M, The Manchurian Candidate, The Ladykillers, Harlan County USA, Dr. Strangelove, The Fugitive, Strangers on a Train, Spirited Away, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, WALL-E, The Fog of War, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Birds, My Neighbor Totoro, Whale Rider, Hidden Fortress, Bullets Over Broadway, Seven Samurai, City of God, Where the Wild Things Are, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Syriana, Yojimbo, O Brother Where Art Thou? |
| Favorite Music | Leonard Cohen, Ben Harper, Antony and the Johnsons, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, W.A. Mozart, John Prine, Alison Krauss, J.S. Bach, Benny Goodman, Coldplay, Randy Newman, Louis Armstrong, Warren Zevon, U2, Miles Davis, Bon Iver |
| Favorite Books | Paradise Lost (John Milton), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), Christ Recrucified (Nikos Kazantzakis), The Heart of a Dog (Mikhail Bulgakov), The Sibyl (Pär Lagerkvist), Independent People (Halldór Laxness), 1984 (George Orwell), All My Sons (Arthur Miller), Fatelessness (Imre Kertész), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick), Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman), Watchmen (Alan Moore), The Mysterious Stranger (Mark Twain), The Quiet American (Graham Greene) |