Gender	Male
Location	West Seattle, WA, United States
Introduction	I am a laughing curmudgeon. I head towards water and bright colors when I crawl out of my cold, dark cave. I respect wolves and their kin. I have little patience for impatience. I fluctuate between being totally in awe of the fact that I'm alive and wondering why any of us are. I drink coffee and ponder. Our now post-teenage son has two Dads. So do our dog, kittens and chickens. I am now a Grandfather. I sometimes tell jokes on a stage.
Interests	Italian films, sushi, the color orange, rain, chickens, the pain and glory of adolescence, the kindness of strangers, psychedelic music, mutts, baking bread, earth, noise, graphic novels, blogs, progressive politics, drones, tamales, trees, wolves, folk art, non narrative film, Soul Music, beards, history, green onion pancakes, microbrews, ylang ylang, cookbooks, documentaries, Mexico, dusty bookstores, cappuccinos, Socialism, godless life, jazz, walks in woods, bubble baths, peace, love and understanding
Favorite movies	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Seventh Seal, Mala Noche, Un Chant D'Amour, Beau Travail, The Sound of Music, The Color of Pomegrantes, Dead Man, Paper Moon, M, Onibaba, A Letter To True, Yellow Submarine, The Raspberry Reich, Persona, Wild Reeds, Taxi Driver, Salo, The Garden, Broken Noses, Throw Away Your Books - Let's Go Out In The Streets, Cabaret, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Chop Suey, Amelie, A Boy And His Dog, Streetcar Named Desire, Raging Bull, Trash, My Life As A Dog, Lone Star, Three Women, No Skin Off My Ass, Brokeback Mountain, The Living End, Dog Day Afternoon, The Mystery of Picasso, Babel, Nashville, Heat, The Chase, The Complete Works of James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yoko Ono, Jean-Luc Godard, Ingmar Bergman, John Cassavetes, Derek Jarman, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren and Harry Smith
Favorite music	Acid Mothers Temple, WAR, Josephine Foster, Erik Friedlander, Gil Scott-Heron, Al Green, TV on the Radio, Akron/Family, Abbey Lincoln, Yoko Ono, The Ex, James Brown, Mingus, Judy Garland, Tom Waits, Grizzly Bear, Om, Nina Simone, Sun Ra, Coltrane, Patti Smith, Pelt, Phil Ochs, Curtis Mayfield, Jamie Johnson, Brigitte Fontaine, Bruce Springsteen, Cassandra Wilson, Aretha Franklin, Laura Nyro, Brain Eno, Pole, Muslimgauze, Sharron Kraus, Al Green, Fleet Foxes, Carissa's Wierd, Rickie Lee Jones, Es, Harold Budd, The Cave Singers, Minnie Riperton, Spearhead, Silvio Rodriguez, Tom Cora, Victor Jara, X, John Cage, Paavoharju, Lou Harrison, Issac Hayes, Master Musicians of Joujouka, A Silver Mt. Zion, Marissa Nadler, Los Lobos, The Clash, Cat Power, Mark Kozelek, Pauline Oliveras, Donnie Hathaway, Mickey Newbury, Sylvester, Ghost, Bjork, J. Tillman, Ray LaMontagne, Ana Gabriel, Islaja, Boredoms, Victor Jara, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Sunn ))), Terry Riley, X Ray Spex, Joanna Newsom, Billie Holiday, Espers, Devendra Banhart, Nico, El Vez, Caetano Veloso
Favorite books	T.A.Z.~ The Temporary Autonomous Zone by Hakim Bey, Coming Unbuttoned by James Broughton, Manhood for Amateurs by Micahel Chabon, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century by Greil Marcus, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson, The New Settler Interviews: Boogie on the Brink by Beth Robinson Bosk and R.D. Deines, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera, Grapefruit by Yoko Ono, Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, Gay Roots: Twenty years of Gay Sunshine ~ an anthology of gay history, sex, politics, and culture, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television & In The Absence of the Sacred both by Jerry Mander, The Art of Mexican Cooking by Diana Kennedy, On The Road by Jack Kerouac, The Marriage of the Sun and Moon by Andrew Weil, Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv, Future Primitive by John Zerzan