Vagabondsoul

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Communications or Media
Location Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Introduction It really is silly to fret over the nuisance of a cold when your body is racked with cancer.
Interests travel, writing, journalism, racquetball, kayaking/canoeing, independent film making, theatre, music, the great outdoors, VW buses, camping, cooking, wine, exotic coffees, listening to new bands, and destroying ego.
Favorite Movies Indie films, The Mission, Lord of the Rings, Narnia, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, The Untouchables, The Scarlet Pimpernel, American Beauty, Fargo, O Brother-Where Art Thou?, Magnolia, Falling Down, Miller's Crossing, A Blood Simple, Crash, Requiem for a Dream, Pulp Fiction, Snatch, Lock, Stock, &; Two Smoking Barrels, Blow, Strange Brew, Fight Club, The Usual Suspects, Resevoir Dogs, The Gods Must Be Crazy, Run Lola Run, The Naked Gun, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Passion of the Christ, Holy Grail, Space Balls, Star Wars, Terminator Trilogy, Die Hard Trilogy, Shrek, Shrek 2, Cube, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Top Secret, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, slapstick humour, mysteries/suspense done well, more to come...
Favorite Music David Gray, Over the Rhine, Pedro the Lion, Cowboy Junkies, Luxury, Pixies, Violet Burning, Innocence Mission, Ester Drang, Xavier Rudd, Mute Math, SF59, Stray Cats, Blindside, Blue Rodeo, Stabilo, Unwed Sailor, U2, Staple, Poor Old Lou, 77s, Lost Dogs, Daniel Amos, Perps, Fleming & John, Steve Taylor, L.S.U., Mike Knott, Cush, Frank Black, Havalina, Mad at the World, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Phil Keaggy, Denison Witmer, Red House Painters, Living Sacrifice, As I Lay Dying, Six Feet Deep, The Blamed, Disciple, East West, Dashboard Confessional, Coldplay, The Choir, Adam Again, Paste Music, '80s Metal, Bill Mallonee, Miranda Stone, Saviour Machine, One Bad Pig, Galactic Cowboys, King's X, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, Sam Phillips, Beethoven, Björk, Burning Spear, John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Leadbelly, The Call, The Alarm, Bruce Cockburn, Stryper, Tourniquet, Bride, Deliverance, Saint, Messiah Prophet, Barren Cross, Vengeance Rising, The Crucified, Stavesacre, Bloodgood, GN'R, Mozart, AC/DC, The Offspring, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie, Depeche Mode, Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus, Fiona Apple, Guided By Voices, Muse, Indigo Girls, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Mono, Nathan, Portishead, The Proclaimers, Queen, Radiohead, The Replacements, The Ramones, Steve Miller, YES, The Smiths, 100 Portraits & Waterdeep, Keith Green, Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, Mark Heard, Bob Dylan, Jesus Psychadelic Rock of the '60s & '70s, Aimee Mann, The Rheostatics, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Oscar Peterson, The Waterboys, I Mother Earth, Violent Femmes, Dave Beegle, Steve Bell, Darrell Mansfield, Glenn Kaiser, Delirious?, Danielson, Dig Hay Zoose, Johnny Cash, Joe Satriani, Ben Harper, Blind Boys of Alabama, Buddy & Julie Miller, Morrissey, Neil Young, Tom Petty, Precious Death, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Blues, Jazz, Folk, Classical. The list can never end. I'm a bit of a music whore.... I have a huge, diverse interest in music.
Favorite Books CLASSICS: Foxe's Book of Martyrs. CURRENT READS: "Amusing Ourselves to Death, " "Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, " "How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films, " Cornerstone Magazine. FAVE AUTHORS: C.S. Lewis, Francis Schaefer, Philip Yancey, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Os Guiness, Alister McGrath, Ravi Zacharias, Lee Strobel, A.W. Tozer, Ronald H. Nash, James W. Sire, Jean Vanier, William Lane Craig, Calvin Miller, Donald Miller, Brian McLaren, Bob Thume, John Fischer, Frederick Buechner, Deitrich Bonhoeffer, Steve McVey, Bob George, Bill Gilham, Chuck Swindoll, Chuck Colson, Phillip E. Johnson, John R. W. Stott, Norman Geisler, Jon Trott, Mike Yaconelli, Bob & Gretchen Passantino. Douglas Adams, Aldous Huxley, Neil Postman, John Grisholm, John Irving, Stephen King. Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, creative children's books.