BandofThebes' Profile
Last Login: Within 3 days
City: New York
State/Province: NY
Country: US
Age:
39
Height:
6' 1"
Weight:
155 lbs.
Hair Color:
Light Brown
Eye Color:
Green
Body Type:
Swimmers
Ethnicity:
White
Occupation:
Frequent Flyer
myInterests
Interests/Hobbies
Books, movies, museums, travel, running, skiing, hiking, camping, canoeing, kayaking; my house in Alaska, my apartment in NYC, three trips a year to Cody, Wyoming; national parks, sleeping in tents, mountains, the beach; Paris. Backpacking is not a sexual position.
Music I Like:
Adele, Air, Aretha, Amy Winehouse, BB King, Beck, Bjork, Belle & Sebastian, Belly, Beth Orton, The Bird & the Bee, Courtney Love, Cowboy Junkies, Depeche Mode, DJ Dmitri, Earth Wind & Fire, Ella, Estrella Morente, Eurhythmics, Everything But the Girl, Feist, Felix Da Housecat, Garbage, Jesus & Mary Chain, KLF, M.I.A., Missy Elliot, Morrissey, Pansy Division, Pet Shop Boys, Postal Service, Shelby Lynne, Sigur Ros, Sinead, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Supergrass, Tanita Tikaram, Telepopmusik, Tina Turner, Tom Jobim,
Films I Like:
2009 was not a great year for movies but a few favorites: The Maid (Chile), The Hurt Locker, Up, Still Walking (Japan), The White Ribbon (Germany), Eden Is West (France), Araya (Mexico), Avatar, Bright Star, Food Inc., Broken Embraces (Spain), Adventureland, Outrage, The Hangover, Lemon Tree (Israel), The Blind Side, The September Issue, Star Trek, This Is It, Capitalism.
Most overrated: Up in the Air, Duplicity, The International, Little Ashes, Rudo y Cursi, An Englishman in New York, The Princess and the Frog, A Single Man.
Literature I Like:
Best I read in 2008: Knut Hamsun, GROWTH OF THE SOIL; Preeta Samarasan, EVENING IS THE WHOLE DAY; Elizabeth Strout, OLIVE KITTERIDGE; Denton Welch, MAIDEN VOYAGE; Manuel Munoz, THE FAITH HEALER OF OLIVE AVENUE; Thor Heyerdahl, KON-TIKI; Benjamin Taylor, THE BOOK OF GETTING EVEN; Jhumpa Lahiri, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH; Charles Portis, THE DOG OF THE SOUTH; and James Wood, HOW FICTION WORKS. River of Doubt
TV Shows I Like:
Jonny Quest.
myAffiliations
Companies
Affiliations
|
DList URL: http://www.dlist.com/BandofThebes
aboutBandofThebes
Busiest travel summer ever
I thought there was probably more to gay life than seeing pictures of straight actors in bicycle shorts. I was right. Here.
Open to friendly guys anywhere. My three main interests are bottoms, tops, and versatile... er, no, my three main interests are movies, books, and travel, which seem to me three sides of the same coin: how other people are living their lives.
Recent trips from NYC
2010: Alaska, New Orleans, Austin; Feb: FL, GA, SC, NC, VA. April: MN, IA, NE, SD, WI. May: Wyoming, DC, Athens & Crete. June: Alaska, NYC, Wyoming, NYC, Alaska.
2009: Alaska, DC for the Inauguration, South Dakota, DC, Florida, Alaska, Rome-Naples-Sicily, Charlottesville, Alaska, Wyoming, NYC for Pride, Alaska for the summer, Germany, Wyoming, Virginia, Alaska.
2008: Alaska (Jan), Alaska (Feb), Florida (Mar), Vieques (Apr) Alaska (May), Wyoming (June), Alaska: Katmai & Fairbanks (July - Sept), Wyoming (Sept.), Block Island (Oct.), London (Oct.), Virginia (Nov.), Alaska (Dec.)
2007: Greece; Wyoming & Montana; Cape Cod; bought a house in Alaska
2006: Grand Canyon; Florida; China; Wales, London & Paris; Morocco; Chicago for Gay Games VII, Alaska; Adirondacks; Tucson & Monument Valley
2005: Florida; Texas; Wyoming; Alaska (Denali); Germany, Czech Republic, Poland & Russia
2004: Thailand, Cambodia & Burma; Phoenix; California; Italy; Switzerland; Alaska; Wyoming; Colorado; Utah, Vegas & Death Valley
2003: California; Boston; Paris; Colorado; Gay Days at Disney; Provincetown; Wyoming; Texas
2002: Paris; Boulder & Laramie; Budapest & Vienna; Yellowstone; Provincetown; Australia for Gay Games VI
2001: Miami; Paris; Venice & Sicily; Montana; Atlanta; Provincetown; Boulder; Hawaii; California
|
myPictures (12)
Only members may use this feature.
|
myFriends'Comments (433)
|
BrettGleason
|
Comment left on: 7/14/10 9:36 PM
Hey !! Please help get my music video, 'I Am Not' into the Top 10 on
Logo's 'The Click List' by voting INCESSANTLY !!!
http://www.logotv.com/shows/dyn/the_click_list/video_voting.jhtml (sixth
one down on left, no personal info needed) THANKS !!! <3
|
|
kamisama
|
Comment left on: 7/4/10 10:14 PM
Hey! Thanks so much for your comment! This summer I will be reading my
japanese books in preparation for Japan Uni. And that sounds awesome in
Alaska! Don't forget to take pictures! Tyler
|
|
xMarkx
|
Comment left on: 7/2/10 4:08 PM
Haha ;) be nice
|
|
jokn
|
Comment left on: 7/1/10 5:44 AM
You are so well travelled and have not gone to Spain? (I know its the
obvious choice) but I'll be in valencia all summer if you want to
train-hop together :)
|
|
EVillFur
|
Comment left on: 6/30/10 9:20 PM
Pride good, no pier dance, eye candy tasty. U?
|
|
jokn
|
Comment left on: 6/26/10 5:59 AM
Is this your blog http://bandofthebes.typepad.com/ if so I think i love
you and your work thank you for making me late for my train so many
times! Greetings from Spain!
|
|
milkisdandy
|
Comment left on: 6/13/10 8:22 PM
i'll take my matthew goode either way. he's so salty.
|
|
BJCG
|
Comment left on: 6/12/10 8:29 PM
Oh god, it's been forever since I updated my movies and everything else,
but I've also hated a lot.
|
|
cluckidee
|
Comment left on: 6/12/10 10:20 AM
(ahem) as I was saying... to NC before, but the blue ridge and summer
school is really all I'm up to for now. My new goal is to get some
homework done off of one of my favorite trails and campout until class
the next day. Sounds dull, but I guess it's just where I live, and how
dull I am :P What about your summer? how's it treating you? what kindof
book do you get along with?
|
|
cluckidee
|
Comment left on: 6/12/10 10:16 AM
Heya. no, I guess it isn't. I fell in love with books only two years
ago. I had a bad case of judging-books-by-their-covers, and I'm just now
learning enough about myself to understand that detail matters when
reading. I'm going through some Victorian novels right now, trying to
get through all the Bronte sisters, Lewis Carroll, and Mary Shelley (and
her mother, wollenstonecraft), I'm also trying to delve into
"walden," but that wont happen 'til august. I'm assuming
you've been t
|
|
|
Online now
