AGayViking

“Albert Camus: Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend”

June 2019: Dear friends, In and out of hospitals this year. 2 heart attacks, massive open heart surgery + more = I’m learning to ‘live’ again 👍 Please send me something beautiful. Other ideas 😊: Farmers/Fishermen/‘Men at work’, Places of Worship, The Animal World.
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Fav. books:
I heard the owl call my name - Margaret Craven
The black pearl - Scott O'Dell
Fav. poems:
The wild swans of Coole - W.B.Yeats
The lady of Shalott - Alfred Tennyson
Anyone lived in a pretty how town - E.E.Cummings
A fav. poet: Walt Whitman
A fav. painter: Vincent van Gogh
Fav. movies:
UK/USA 1987: 84 Charing Cross Road
UK 1988: Hawks
USA 1987: Whales of August
UK 2017: God's own country
Peru 2009: Contracorriente/Undertow
Estonia/Georgia 2013: Mandariinid/Tangerines
Italy 1988: Cinema paradiso
Israel 2009: Einayim Petukhoth/Eyes wide open
USA/Canada 2006: Brokeback mountain
Some fav. songs/videos from youtube:
Pauli Hanhiniemi: Muutkin mokaa
Unheilig: Sonnentag (The official video is beautiful beyond words)
Lauri Tahka: Ma en pelkaa (Ol’Joey thinks Lauri is THE most handsome man in Finland 😊)
Havasi: The Storm
Dino Merlin: Sve dok te bude imalo
Of Monsters and Men: Little talks
Les Dix Commandements: Mon frere
Juha Tapio: Rakastan niin kauan ma voin
Juha Tapio & Johanna Kurkela: Rakastettu
Yehonatan & Lyrik: Across the universe
The Paper Kites: St Clarity
Bear's Den: Isaac
Runrig: Running to the light (live version)
Doug Strahm: Your love
Asaf Avidan: Different pulses
Mecano: El fallo positivo
Nek: L'inquietudine
Old Man Canyon: Wiser
Conchita Wurst: Heroes
BJH: Child of the universe
Judas Priest: Diamonds and rust
The Gaslight Anthem: Handwritten
The Horrible Crowes: Joey
Rajaton: Eleanor Rigby
Lost In The Trees: Farewell performance 12.12.14
Love the Eurovision Song Contest 🤗

Partnered/Married/Brotherhood for life with another man, LA, born in June 1957. We met 29 July 1983 and stayed together from day one. We met thanks to a Siamese cat, he stayed with us for 14 years. I had my first pen friend in Norway at the age of 7 and at the age of 10 I had my first pen friend abroad - a girl in Northern Ireland. She got me hooked on postcards. My late brother got me hooked on stamps and ever since I have been sending out letters, postcards, stamps to *every corner of the world*. This is super therapy for me and something which will last until my final journey. I have no proper education, I'm autodidact. I have always worked, blue collar jobs from the day I was born back home on the farm and until now, must have money for postcards and stamps:-) Currently working for a security company, before that 20 years of newspaper distribution-all sorts of jobs. My beloved LA is a cancer survivor since 2004-Yeehaw!

Viking hugs, Joey