sonic youth, arcade fire, David Bowie, Animal Collective, Nick Drake, the smiths, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Joy Division, New Order, the white stripes, the velvet underground, of Montreal, wolf parade, Neko Case, Talking heads, radiohead, Grace Jones, Throbbing Gristle, early REM, Fleetwood mac, my morning jacket, cat power, b-52's, Depeche mode, the mountain goats, boards of canada, gov't mule, jazz, Cocteau twins, the breeders, death cab for cutie, Paul Nice, stereototal, smog, Peaches, Elliott Smith, Laurie Anderson, Air, Billie Holiday, Belle and Sebastian, Arab strap, some electronic dance music, Patti Smith, the cure, pet shop boys, Janis Joplin, Dusty Springfield, Billie Holiday, Erykah Badu, M.I.A., baile funk, apostle of hustle, blondie, Bob Dylan, Bjork, Janet Jackson, Iron and wine, Yoko Ono, Erykah Badu, and the allman brothers band.

blue velvet, narc, John Waters, the royal Tennenbaums, Kinsey, chasing Amy, Clerks 1+2, y tu mama tambien, Evil Dead 1-3, Dawn of the dead (original and remake), coffy, Jackie Brown, Foxy Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill 1, Brokeback Mountain, mysterious skin, the virgin suicides, Aliens 1-3, Gattaca, little miss sunshine, goodfellas, Priscilla queen of the desert, Paris is Burning, bladerunner, a scanner darkly, pink flamingos, female trouble, the last king of scotland, naked lunch, the ice storm, mal educacion (bad education), women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, adaptation, drugstore cowboy, my own private Idaho, Jackie Brown, Dolemite, Capote, infamous, the matador, total recall, the life aquatic, fight club, the outsiders, the first LOTR movie, postcards from America, SuperTroopers, the shining, the departed, as good as it gets, Frida, The Matador, and lots of other movies.

I haven't seen "Superstar in a house dress" the documentary on Jackie Curtis but I really want to.

anything by William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Jack Kerouac, Su Tong, H.P. Lovecraft, Anais Nin, Jan Kerouac, Carl Sagan, Rimbaud, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Sherman Alexie, Allen Ginsberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Wojnarowicz, Paul Bowles, Kathy Acker, and a wide range of other writers/poets/essayists.

writing, cardiovascular exercise, camping, hiking, bondage, restraint, BDSM, live music, film, photography, meditation, beards, bondage, beer, facial hair, reading, and hanging out with friends.

I try not to get trapped in the "us vs them" mentality that permeates our culture. I'm not a big fan of binary thinking. I can be rather cerebral and enjoy questioning and talking about things that many people don't like to. I have a unique sense of humour and I can be very biting and sardonic at times with it. I'm an excellent writer and I enjoy conversing in the written word. A friend told me I should get a PhD in Rhetoric but I don't want to do that. I try to look at the whole picture when it comes to things, ideas, and people. I can be brutally honest, blunt, unapologetic, intense, driven, compassionate, and free spirited; but in the end I'm just me.

My Bear411 page: http://www.bear411.com/beardedwoof
explains more about me. I'm on BMB as BeardedWoof too. I'm also on gay.com as DeadCub but I don't chat there or pay for the site.

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