Brad

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Teacher; Retired
Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
Introduction Former adult teacher who loves island beaches. Happy homebody and family man; once devoted dog owner, now without Tashi, my Tibetan Terrier. I prefer the absurdity of the imagination to the absurdity of imagining nothing.
Interests Media, web design, gardening, poetry, teaching composition
Favorite Movies A Separation; Tree of Life, Shawshank Redemption, Saltmen of Tibet, The Dead, Million Dollar Baby, Burnt by the Sun, Children of Men, Half Nelson, An Inconvenient Truth, Margin Call
Favorite Music Van Morrison, Ry Cooder, Chet Baker, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, John Coltrane, Warren Zevon, Randy Newman, Sinead O'Connor, Madeleine Peyroux, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen
Favorite Books Unless by Carol Shields, The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, Collected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska, Suite Francaise by Irene Nemerovsky, The Golden Spruce by John Vaillant, anything by Cormac McCarthy

You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?

By not writing it in the first place!