Gordon Friedrich
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| Occupation | retired Transportation Engineer |
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| Location | Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada |
| Introduction | Retired thirty one-year transportation engineer, part-time highway coach driver, husband of one, father of two, cat owner, Canadian troops supporter, Montreal Canadiens and Bayern Munich fanatic, Conservative Party of Canada voter, Civil War enthusiast, increasingly-disgruntled NASCAR fan, 8" Schmidt/Cassegrain telescope-equipped backyard astronomer, avid gardener, jazz and classical music listener, voracious reader (completed Tolstoy's daunting 'War and Peace', Feb '11), pickup hockey player, backyard pool inhabiter, Tim Hortons imbiber, Oakheart rum sipper, Backwoods cigar partaker, motorcycle traveller and southern Appalachia dreamer. |
| Favorite movies | Lincoln, Quartet, Down the Road Again, One Week, Master and Commander, Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, 2001: A Space Oddysey, Help, A Hard Day's Night, All The President's Men,Gettysburg, Gods and Generals, The Right Stuff, The Great Escape, The Glenn Miller Story, Rob Roy, The Final Countdown, Gladiator, Slap Shot, Young Frankenstein, Braveheart, The Dirty Dozen, Downfall, Amadeus, The Band's Visit, Bull Durham, Pumping Iron, Crimson Tide, Appaloosa, Wyatt Earp, Open Range, The Trip, The Trip to Italy, Any Given Sunday, Man on Wire, Barney's Version, Long Way Round, Long Way Down, Band of Brothers, Shogun, Piece of Cake, Ken Burns' Civil War, Ken Burns' Jazz, The Beatles Anthology, Cosmos, Visions of Germany, The Tudors, Doctor in the House, As Time Goes By, Mad Men, Downton Abbey, Last Tango in Halifax |
| Favorite music | Beatles, Rolling Stones, Tragically Hip, Sloan, Barenaked Ladies, The Rutles, The Who, Tom Petty, Foo Fighters, Eric Clapton, Smithereens, Nickelback, Traveling Wilburys, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Chris Knight, Neil Young,Steve Earle, Reckless Kelly, Montgomery Gentry, Willie Nelson, Andre Rieu, Frank Sinatra, Stompin' Tom Connors, Johnny Cash, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Johann Strauss, Franz Lehar |
| Favorite books | James Clavell, Leon Uris, Pierre Berton, W.E.B. Griffin, Len Deighton, Michael Dobbs, Carl Sagan, Mordecai Richler, Jeff Shaara, Diana Gabaldon, Patrick O'Brian, Patrick Taylor, Terry Fallis, Richard Gordon, Bernard Cornwell, R.F. Delderfield, Shelby Foote, Peter C. Newman, Richard Gwynn,Ken Dryden, Jeffrey Archer, Sharon Kay Penman, Alison Weir, Michael Connelly |