Richard Bargdill
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor of Psychology |
| Location | Richmond, VA |
| Interests | Existential psychology, Art making, Pittsburgh Sports teams, poetry writing, epiphanies. |
| Favorite Movies | Blade Runner (Harrison Ford), Pink Floyd’s The Wall, 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick), A Clockwork Orange (Kubrick), Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick), The Mission (Robert Deniro), Being There (Peter Sellers–same director as Harold and Maude {Hal Ashby}), Koyaanisquatsi by Francis Ford Coppola, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Midnight Run (comedy with Deniro), Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), The Stalker (Tarkovsky –must be patient slow developing), Roger and Me (Michael Moore) |
| Favorite Music | Mostly Gravel voices: Bob Dylan, Kris Kristopherson, Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Joseph Arthur, Ben Weaver, Waylon Jennings, Ani Difranco, Mary Gauthier |
| Favorite Books | The Stranger by Albert Camus (Also see The Plague, the Fall), The Trial by Franz Kafka (also see The Metamorphosis), Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Alive: the story of the Andes survivors by Piers Paul Read, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (good to read to grade school children), The Odyssey by Homer (28 or older), Zorba the Greek by Kazantzakis, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick (novel for Bladder Runner), The Divisible Self by R. D. Laing, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Notes from the Underground—Dostoyevsky, No Exit- Sartre, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson |