John Strickland
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Writer/Photographer |
| Location | Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, United States |
| Introduction | Writer, Photographer, Teacher |
| Interests | Political Philosophy, Urban Planning, Photography, French Language and Culture |
| Favorite movies | A Man for All Seasons, That Man from Rio, Blade Runner, Swamp Water, Year of Living Dangerously, Gold Rush, The Apostle, Red Desert, The Sorrow and the Pity |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Segovia, Mose Alison, Amalia Rodriguez, George Brassens, Kiri Te Kanawa, Cecelia Bertholli, Piaf, Joan Baez, Jesse Winchester, Brownie McGee and Sonny Terry, Lightnin Hopkins, Charles Lloyd |
| Favorite books | Computer Power and Human Reason (Joseph Weizenbaum), The Human Use of Human Beings (Norbert Wiener), Cybernetics or Control and Communication in Animal and Machine (N. Wiener), Star Thrower (Loren Eiseley), Moralia (Plutarch), Essays (Montaigne), Horseman on the Roof (Jean Giono), all the novels of Gabrielle Roy, esp. The Hidden Mountain (La Montagne Secrete), Short Stories of Elizabeth Spencer, Near the Ocean (Robert Lowell), Poetry of Emily Dickinson, Dialogues of Plato, Rhetoric and Politics (Aristotle), Greek Civilization (Jacob Burckhardt), Alice in Wonderland, Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter), Terre des Hommes (Saint-Exupery) |