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Mark

I am here for Friends

About Me

Raised by wolves.6'3, 235 lbs., 53 years old and raring to go. Black hair, now pretty much turning silver. Bearded too. And no, I'm not shaving it off any time soon. It's probably older than you are! Weekday senior management drone, weekend warrior. Partnered with Tim, who may or may not have prepared your libation at some point.

My Interests

Tim, music, working out, reading, architecture, classic films, tee shirts. Formerly a student of the cocktail, I have attained my doctoral degree in that subject.

I'd like to meet:

Friends who want to chat or hang. Buds who can throw back a beer or six.

Music:

SMiLE, Grandaddy, Beth Orton, Mates of State, Zombies, Scritti Politti, Jeri Southern, Silverchair, Gram Parsons, Bowie, Weezer, Doug Hilsinger, Sandy Denny, Andy Pratt, Elliot Smith, Brian Eno, Laura Nyro, Iggy Pop, Nick Drake, Lee Wiley, She and Him, Roxy Music, Big Star, Van Dyke Parks, Electronic, Ron Sexsmith, Cole Porter, New York Dolls, Maggie & Terre Roche, Left Banke, Arif Mardin, Velvet Underground, Phil Spector, Joni Mitchell, Kinks, Marianne Faithfull, Stealer's Wheel, New Order, Marti Jones, Garbage, Traffic, Marshall Crenshaw, Late 60's-Early 70's Stones, John Phillips, Jesus & Mary Chain, Neil Young, Propaganda, Jefferson Airplane, Siouxie, Robert Johnson, Oasis, Genevieve Waite, T.Rex, many, many, many points in between. Did I mention Brian Wilson? Uh...Brian Wilson! oh yeah...and his brothers Dennis & Carl.

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, Magnolia, Virgil Bliss, Barry Lyndon, Requiem for a Dream, Rushmore, Gimme Shelter, The Rapture, Darling, The Big Sleep, Nashville, Ulee's Gold, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Grifters, The Scarlett Empress, Married to the Mob, Georgia, The Age of Innocence, Shampoo, Bride of Frankenstein, Trouble in Paradise, Killer's Kiss, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, Harold and Maude, My Man Godfrey, Miami Blues, Women In Revolt, Performance, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Romeo is Bleeding, The Shanghai Gesture, Help, Just Tell Me What You Want, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Caesar and Cleopatra, Smashing Time, The Boyfriend, Pierrot le Fou, Hud, El Paso Wrecking Company, Brideshead Revisited, Barbarella, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Midnight Cowboy, Becky Sharp, The Miracle, Safe, Gone with the Wind, Cries & Whispers, Leave Her to Heaven, Clueless, The Bandwagon, Don't Look Now, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Bell du Jour, Moonstruck, Three Women, Ciao Manhattan, Marnie, Thunderball, Grey Gardens, My Hustler, Good News, The Ruling Class, Scorpio Rising, Meet Me In St. Louis, Brewster McCloud, Heat & Dust, Chopper

Television:

Does the weather channel count?

Books:

Books by: Joan Didion, Thomas McGuane, Ann Beatty, Edmund White, Shirley Jackson, Collette, James M. Cain, Carson McCullers, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Evelyn Waugh, Adam Mars-Jones, Louise Erdrich, Truman Capote, Jean Rhys, M.F.K. Fisher, D.H. Lawrence, Allison Bechdel, James Merrill, Christopher Isherwood, Louisa May Allcott. Sometimes I like Armistead Maupin, when he isn't getting all bitchy with me.

Heroes:

We can talk about that sometime.