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austin

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I dig my job, where I live, my cat, my girlfriend, the travel and adventures I've been able to enjoy. Aside from some hard times in the last couple of years that have been truly testing, life has been really good to me. Life seems to change for the best when you shift your attention to the positive things, away from the negative and try to learn from every situation.
I have an insatiable hunger to learn more, to experience and push myself, as well as to meet people who make the most of their time on this lovely rock.
2007 has been a year to remember. Within the same year, my mother passed away of cancer at an early age and I've had to find a job, a new place to live and crawl out of debt. Thankfully things have gone very well and I've found a job that I love, have travelled to Hawaii and Barcelona, auditioned for American Idol, attended Burning Man, went backpacking for 7 days along the Calfornia coast and have absolutely enjoyed my new place in the Berkeley hills outside of San Francisco. In addition to this madness, I'm playing with some musicians in the bay area in the efforts to start a music project.
I don't use Myspace much lately, but it's always a great way to keep in touch with old friends. If you're stopping by, please send me a message, I'd love to hear from you!

My Interests

Music, art, exploration, learning, reading, hiking, personal growth, inspirational conversation and events.

I'd like to meet:

if you have fun with life, i'd like to meet ya.

Music:

Andrew Bird, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Air, Dredg, Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Radiohead, Muse, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Page the Village Idiot, etc.

Television:

Most things on the travel channel, Family Guy, The Daily Show, Colbert, Discovery Channel, House, Mr. Show

Books:

Walden, Better Off, Blink, Freakonomics, Superbia, The World is Flat, The Omnivore's Dilemma, A People's History of the United States, Angels & Demons

Heroes:

Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, Leonardo Da Vinci, John Muir, Benjamin Franklin, Bob Sagat