Martin U.S. Bear

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About me

Gender Male
Location Woodland, California, United States
Introduction Baby boomer, Navy veteran, 25 year Woodland, CA. resident, husband, father, grandfather
Interests Bicycling, fishing, hiking, anything outdoors
Favorite Movies All That Jazz (1979), American Graffiti (1973), Apocalypse Now (1979), Away from Her (2006), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Blade Runner (1982), Body Heat (1981), Breaking Away (1979), Bullitt (1968), Chato's Land (1971), Cinderella Man (2005), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Dancer Upstairs (2002), The Deer Hunter (1978), Deliverance (1972), Don't Look Now (1973), The Dreamers (2003), Eye of the Needle (1981), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992), The Godfather (1972), Hombre (1967), The Last of the Mohicans (1992), The Last Picture Show (1971), The Professional (1994), Mr. Majestyk (1974), The Natural (1984), The Night Porter (1974), No Country for Old Men (2007) O Brother, Where, rt Thou? (2000), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The Pink Panther (2006), Ripley's Game (2003), Robin and Marian (1976), The Sand Pebbles (1966), Secretary (2002), Serpico (1973), Sling Blade (1996), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), The Station Agent (2003), Straw Dogs (1971), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Taxi Driver (1976), There Will Be Blood (2007), Titus (1999), The Triplets of Belleville (2003), True Confessions (1981), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), Unforgiven (1992), Wall Street (1987)
Favorite Music Blues, Jazz, 60's & 70's Rock
Favorite Books Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates; Walking the Perfect Square, Reed Farrel Coleman; FIASCO: The Inside Story Of A Wall Street Trader, Frank Partnoy; Sometimes A Great Notion, Ken Kesey; The Old Man And The Sea, Hemingway; Crime And Punishment, Dostoyevsky; A Farewell To Arms, Hemingway; Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo; Native Son, Richard Wright; Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin; Of Mice And Men, Steinbeck; The Fog Of War, Robert S. McNamara; Disgraced, JM Coetzee Reading now: Already Dead, Denis Johnson