Carrie Strock
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Intern |
| Location | Nashville, Tennessee, United States |
| Interests | Family & friends, knitting/crochet, old movies, attachment parenting, environmentalism, human rights, science, NPR, PBS, old radio shows, The Beeb, swimming, running, Yoga, martial arts, artistic endeavours, natural parenting, medicine, vegan cuisine, science fiction/fantasy/horror, music, Anglophilia, social justice, spirituality, languages, crafts, stringed instruments, Steampunk, westerns, cult television, drawing/painting/sculpting/creating, writing, documentaries, video production, photography, cryptozoology, primatology, anthropology, comic books, magic & illusion, the political process, the creativity of my friends and acquaintances, theatre, films, songwriting, singing, karaoke, playing in bands, social policy, activism, community organizing, whole foods, podcasting, breastfeeding, childbirth, midwifery, canning foods, gardening, sustainable living, special effects make-ups/FX, stop motion photography, escatology and universalities in apocryphal mythologies, diversity, cultural competency, ethnic cuisines, living green, travel, talking to strangers, costuming, zoology, tattooing, bad jokes. |
| Favorite Movies | MEET JOHN DOE, CITIZEN KANE, ROSEMARY'S BABY, TO BE OR NOT TO BE, FIGHT CLUB, DON'T LOOK NOW, HAROLD & MAUDE, MR SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON, MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT, THE MALTESE FALCON, LOST HORIZON, LOST WEEKEND, THE HAUNTING OF JULIA (FULL CIRCLE), the Universal horrors, the works of Hithcock, Hawks, Huston, Capra, Friedkin, Polanski, Cassavetes. Films with Lon Chaney, Sr., Bogart, Stanwyck, Lombard, Gary Cooper, Fred MacMurray, Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, 'Tippi' Hedren, Ray Milland, Gene Hackman, James Garner, Joan Crawford, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Edward G Robinson, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Bette Davis, Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Mia Farrow, Ruth Gordon, Peter Falk, Bruce Campbell. |
| Favorite Music | Tori Amos, David Bowie, prog rock (Pink Floyd, Van der Graaf Generator, Genesis, King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Soft Machine, Moody Blues), British blues-rock, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Neko Case, Cat Power, Heartless Bastards, Kate Bush, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Pet Shop Boys, early U2 & Elton John, Siouxsie Sioux & the Banshees, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Portishead, Shooter Jennings, Junior Brown, Billie Holiday, Mothers of Invention, First National Band, Captain Beefheart, Janis Joplin, Tim & Jeff Buckley, Howlin' Wolf, RL Burnside, Procol Harum, Pretenders, Simple Minds, Iggy Pop & the Stooges, Goblin/Daemonica, Feist, Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, Broken Social Scene, Pete Seeger, Schubert, Mozart, Saint-Saens, Robert Johnson, the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Flatt & Scruggs, Blair Tefkin, Sugar in Wartime, The Features, Modest Mouse, Tai Carmen, various indie stuff, Aimee Mann, Ladytron, Jason Nesmith, Tenderhooks, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Nina Simone, Gloria Jones, Bill Withers, Maria McKee, Ruthie Henshaw, Bernadette Peters, Rosemary Clooney, Jessye Norman, Gorillaz, Gordon Lightfoot, Cat Stevens, Joe Jackson, Wilo, Dar Williams, Grateful Dead, the Pixies, Tears for Fears, Toto, Tiffany Anders, Adam Ant, The Cure, New Wave, '80s, Goth Rock, Punk & post-punk, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, industrial, classic country, classical, Liszt, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, "Weird" Al Yankovic. |
| Favorite Books | Mainly nonfiction and.... Writers: Harlan Ellison Samuel Clemens/Mark Twain Dorothy Parker Eudora Welty James Tiptree, Jr. Gerald Kersh Nathanael West Michael Moorcock Philip K. Dick Alfred Bester Joanna Russ Octavia Butler Ursula LeGuin John Wyndham Nigel Kneale Richard Matheson Robert Bloch Charles Beaumont Jules Verne HG Wells Jack Kirby AE van Vogt Theodore Sturgeon Arthur C Clarke Harry Harrison Harry Turtledove Karl Edward Wagner Neil Gaiman Sandy Clark Stephen Jones Kim Newman David Skal Don Glut Lowell Cunningham Leigh Brackett Robert Heinlein Isaac Asimov Carl Sagan Stephen Hawking Chuck Palahniuk Jonathan Swift Ira Levin Frank Herbert Ray Bradbury Joyce Carol Oates Margaret Atwood John Irving George Orwell Stanislaw Lem Ramsey Campbell Brian Aldiss Edgar Rice Burroughs Sir Arthur Conan Doyle JRR Tolkien Madeline L'Engle Joe Lansdale Edgar Allan Poe Dennis Wheatley Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Peter Beagle L Frank Baum Lewis Carroll GK Chesterton Ambrose Bierce Avram Davidson Philip Jose Farmer Francesca Lia Block Jorge Luis Borges Jane Yolen Jack Vance Gene Wolfe Terry Pratchett Agatha Christie Douglas Adams Jerome Bixby Karel Capek John W Campbell Roald Dahl Henry Kuttner Franz Kafka The Bard Fritz Leiber Jack London Alan Moore Richard Dawkins Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. F. Paul Wilson Kate Wilhelm Shirley Jackson Tennessee Williams Mary Shelley |