The Black Watch Sasquatch
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Beyond Kimchee
- Cigar Blog 101
- Mountain Wandering
- The Auto Prophet
- What's Good at Trader Joe's?
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
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| Introduction | I am no Bear Grylls or John Muir, just a regular guy who worships Nature. I'm a Portlander, a hiker, and a photographer / blogger on a quest to construct a comprehensive photographic journal of the forests, creeks, rivers, mountains, seascapes, and meadows that surround the greatest city in North America: Portland, Oregon. Hikes, beaches, mountain summits, parks, waterways, and even scenic drives and Portland's urban jungle will be covered. The object is to capture the beauty and appeal of this part of the country using photography. |
| Interests | Nature, Philosophy, Literature, Road-Trips, Humanism, Handmade Cigars, Wilderness, Mountains, Beaches, Microbreweries, Existentialism, Used Bookstores and Second Hand Record Stores, Classical music, Film, Bohemianism, Coffeehouses, Bourbon, Skiing, Snowboarding, Sunrises, Sunsets, Seafood, English and Irish pubs, Fog, Snow, Dark humor, Autumn, Open-air markets, Amtrak, Cabins, Pernod, Corduroy, Canoeing, Powell's Books, Fireplaces, Maps, Automobiles, Cats, Thinking, Exploring, Observing, Chilling |
| Favorite Movies | Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited, Bottle Rocket, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Sawdust and Tinsel, Groundhog Day, A Clockwork Orange, Dead Poets Society, Fanny and Alexander, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Blues Brothers, Love Actually, Sideways, Chocolat, Annie Hall, Snatch, Gosford Park, Rear Window, Ronin, What About Bob?, Manhattan, 400 Blows, Insomnia, The Seventh Seal, The Squid and the Whale, Band of Outsiders, Deconstructing Harry, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, James Bond films, Best in Show, Smiles of a Summer Night, Amarcord, No Country for Old Men, Up in the Air, Motorcycle Diaries, Midnight in Paris, True Grit, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Match Point, Whatever Works |
| Favorite Music | Franz Schubert, Gioachino Rossini, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, George Gershwin, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Mozart, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Frederic Chopin, Zero 7, Beta Band, Junip, Thievery Corporation, Coldplay, DeVotchKa, Beats Antique, The Rolling Stones, Massive Attack, Badly Drawn Boy, The Who, Radiohead, The Cream, Nick Drake, Johnny Cash, Sigur Ros, Wilco, Oasis, Rage Against the Machine, The Beatles, Dave Matthews Band, Niyaz, Morcheeba, Frank Sinatra, Sufjan Stevens, Serge Gainsbourg |
| Favorite Books | Cloud Atlas, Being and Time, Walden, Metamorphosis, Dubliners, On the Genealogy of Morality, Pastoralia, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Flow, Jude the Obscure, Existentialist Philosophy, Steppenwolf, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Grendel, The NPR Listener's Guide to Classical Music, Heart of Darkness, A Clockwork Orange, Great Expectations, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Siddhartha, Catcher in the Rye, The French Lieutenant's Woman, What Nietzsche Really Said, On the Road, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Dracula, The Pearl, Casino Royale, A Mencken Chrestomathy, Winesburg Ohio, Experience and Education, Lord of the Flies, The Problems of Philosophy, The Wind in the Willows, The Devil's Dictionary, The Wisdom of Life and Councils and Maxims, Revolutionary Road, The Sea-Wolf, The Republic, Letter to a Christian Nation, Slaughterhouse-Five, Existentialism is a Humanism, Atlas Shrugged, The Communist Manifesto, White Noise, The Plays of August Strindberg, Last Night of the Earth Poems, Civilization and its Discontents, Language Truth and Logic, Ideas That Matter, The Odyssey, The Life and Times of Michael K., Ghostwritten |