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Bill

Non-Denominational Spiritual Advisor and Self-Actualization Specialist

About Me

I'm a large, calm, and content man. I keep to myself for the most part, but love people to talk and listen to. I'm very aware of the goings on around me. I make my living in the Culinary world, though my true passion is Philosophy. I love to hear what people think and beleive in and why. My one real goal in life is to understand. I don't care how much or little I know. It matters more to me that I understand. There are few things I value more then good company. And to that effect I often miss being close to my good friends. But close is a relative word and things like this can make what seemed far look close. Sometimes I'm a bit too diplomatic for my own good. Careful words and controlled emotion have their time and place, though I think I use them too much.------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------------------------I am a guardian of sorts. I look after people in whatever ways I can. Once somebody has made my 'list' they will forever have my ear and my heart. The most taxing thing is letting them know that I can never protect them from themselves. I am like a big brother. I let you make your mistakes, but I am always there to help you up in the end.-------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------To understand and protect. Consider that my oath to a friend.

My Interests

Cooking/food, philosophy, religion, nature, people, games, horror movies, spending time with friends.

I'd like to meet:

Most people at least once. There are few people I don't find interesting on one level or another. That is unless they are backed too far into their own shells. Then again sometimes coaxing them out can be worth the effort.

Music:

Bad 80's music, hard rock, classic rock, some metal from my teen years (Pantera, older Metallica... that sort of thing), X-mas parodies, Type O, lounge, lots of random stuff including the occaissional Xenakis.

Movies:

Most Coen Brothers movies, most Mel Brooks movies, Star Wars: A New Hope, Goonies, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Re-Animator, Dead Alive, Poltergeist, Alien, Aliens, Predator ( But not Alien vs. Predator), God of Cookery, Kung Fu Hustle, The Changeling, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead (both original and remake), Underworld, Chinatown, Big Trouble in Little China, Highlander (Just the first one), Bram Stoker's Dracula, Most Dracula movies involving Christopher Lee, The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Evil Dead (1 and 2), Spiderman, Terminator (1 and 2), The first two Pink Panther movies, Godfather, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Waiting, and many more...

Television:

Family Guy, Older Simpsons, Old SNL, Iron Chef, some adult swim, many shows that Fox saw fit to cancel after a season or less, some History/Discovery channels.

Books:

Tao Te Ching(about 12 different translations and counting), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Something Wicked This Way Comes ( and many short stories by Bradbury), Salem's Lot, Lord of the Dead, most of the Anita Blake books though less so the later ones, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (historical fiction with vampires can't go wrong in my book), Children of the Night, Carrion Comforts, my small newage/occult library

Heroes:

Those old people that always seem to smile. Maybe they're crazy or maybe it's all the meds, but I like to think they just get it.