Gary Carden
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- 3 ACRE HOMESTEAD
- A Backyard Farmer Type
- A new leaf
- Appalachian Writers
- Banjo52
- blogspots.com
- Dew on the Kudzu
- Diamond Poetry
- Growin' Up in the Hills
- Halcyon Days
- HERE, WHERE I AM
- HOLLER NOTES
- My Laureate's Lasso
- Smokey Mountain Breakdown
- TAAS Gallery
- Tellers of Weird Tales
- The Liars Bench Gazette
- THE LOST SOCIETY - NEWS AND THOUGHTS
- The Writers Porch
- usedmuses
- www.netwestmountainwritersandpoets.blogspot.com/
- wwwtodaysdeepsouth.blogspot.com/
- wwwtodaysdeepsouth.blogspot.net
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Arts |
Occupation | storytelling, dramatist |
Location | Sylva, W.N.C., United States |
Introduction | Solitary, deaf, diabetic, eccentric (or so I am told). I live in an old farmhouse with Booger, my cat, and Jack, my Jack Russell. The house is full of books and I write a book review/human interest column for a weekly newspaper. I also write plays: "The Uktena" - a Cherokee mime play. "The Raindrop Waltz" - autobiographical "Land's End" - 3 dramatic monologues, including "Nance Dude." "Birdell" one-woman show. "Prince of Dark Corners" - this one made it to PBS I am currently working on "Mother Jones" and "Signs and Wonders." |
Interests | movies, reading, storytelling, folklore, Appalachian culture, Arthurian legends, etc. Right now, I am doing research on a utopian commune that existed in Henderson County, N. C. and was composed of freedmen (ex-slaves)from 1964-1900. It was called the "Kingdom of the Happy Land" and it was ruled by a king and queen. |
Favorite Movies | Romeo is Bleeding; King of Masks; The Lives of Others; Run, Lola, Run; Cane Toads; The Grapes of Wrath; Night of the Hunter; The Seventh Seal; Seven Beauties; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; No Country for Old Men; Bonnie and Clyde. |
Favorite Music | Right now: Bonnie Prince Billy, Nina Simone, the Platters; Ray Charles; Symphony Fantasque, Tales of Hoffman, Tannhauser, Merle Haggard |
Favorite Books | You Can't Go Home Again, The Road, No Country for Old Men, Black Flower, The Eye of the Beholder, Serena, Hundred Years of Solitude, William Gay's I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down, Heart of Darkness and anything by Flannery O'Conner. |
The hair from your last haircut ... what would it say about your new style?
This guy just got up.