The Rank Stranger
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Policy Planning Specialist/Statistician |
| Location | Richmond, Virginia, United States |
| Introduction | See you at the rock show... |
| Interests | Music, Politics, Education |
| Favorite movies | Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, We Are...Marshall, Slingblade, The Wall, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Any film with, Christopher Walken, or, Robert Duvall, Kicking and Screaming, (and I don't mean the one starring Will Farrell), The Last Days of Disco, Chris Eigeman, films/shows, An Inconvenient Truth, Lonesome Dove, Junebug |
| Favorite music | Alternative-Country, i.e., Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, early, Wilco, ...and I mean early, Wilco, Whiskeytown, (Duh), Ryan Adams, Thad Cockrell, Caitlin Cary, Frog Holler, Jayhawks, Robbie Fulks, Blue Mountain, Drive By Truckers, Kathleen Edwards, Peter Bruntnell, Jim Bryson, Slobberbone, The Drams, Jolene, The Bottle Rockets, The Backsliders Chris Knight, Glossary, Tift Merrit, Patrick Park, The Old 97's, The Scud Mountain Boys, Doug Burr, American Aquarium, the Dexateens, Vulture Whale, Josh Ritter, Romantica, and much much more; Indie-Rock, i.e., Centro-matic, Pavement, Death Cab for Cutie, Get up Kids, Beezewax, Rubens Accomplice, Gregory and the Hawk, The Album Leaf, and the like; Bluegrass, and straight forward, non-radio rock, i.e., Sloan, Piebald, Superdrag, Matthew Sweet, Dropkick, The Posies, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Nada Surf, The Gaslight Anthem, The Hold Steady, and even a little soul such as, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and, The Breakestra, then there are my old stand-byes, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, The Indigo Girls, George Winston, Elvis Presley, (50's Elvis), Bill Monroe, Hank Williams Sr. |
| Favorite books | Biographies, Rocket Boys, The Coalwood Way, Sky of Stone, Angels and Demons, The DaVinci Code, Deception Point, Animal Farm, Storming Heaven, The Unquiet Earth, Lonesome Dove, Dead Man's Walk, Comanche Moon, Streets of Laredo, On The Road, Love is a Mixtape, books about, Appalachia, West Virginia, the Coal Mine Wars, |