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Jordan

dharma_bum034

About Me

I'm currently stuck in Hollywood California serving a three year sentence at a real job. Barring early parole I will hopefully be making my escape sometime in 09' to a foreign land and I will likely never look back. I have a childlike enthusiasm for life's little gifts, an ability to find the 'adventure' in anything. I'm very happy to be here, alive. I love observing people as if they were characters in a book. I notice great details and it enriches my life. I make a lot of mistakes but try very hard to learn from them. I love meeting new people, and introducing people to new things and new experiences...even better when its reciprocated. I'm a conservationist, an adventurer, a survivor, a humorist, an idealist, an existentialist, sometimes an antagonist, and I always try to coexist. ************************************************************ ****************"We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our open eyes" -Jawaharial Nehru ************************************************************ *****************"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." - St. Augustine

My Interests

PASSIONS: Travel, Literature, Music, Nature, INTERESTS: Hiking, Camping, Climbing, Cooking, People Watching, Art, Museums, Photography, New Cultures (especially latin),

Music:

FOLK, WORLD, REGGAE, GYPSY, JAZZ, BLUES....Scott Claassen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Bob Marley, Grateful Dead, Simon and Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, The Band, The Beatles, Van Morrison, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, John Fahey, Sublime, Manu Chao, Boubacar Traore, Ali Farka Toure, Nick Drake, Iron and Wine, Be Good Tanyas, Jolie Holland, Django Reinhardt, Pandit Swapan Chaudhori, Devendra Banhart, Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Woodie Guthrie, Miriam Makeba,Old Crow Medicine Show, Bela Fleck, Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Yann Tiersen, Ibrahim Ferrer, Cesaria Evora, Compay Segundo, Buena Vista Social Club, Joao Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Edith Piaf, Carla Bruni, Keren Ann, Thierry "Titi" Robins,

Movies:

INDEPENDENT, ART-HOUSE, FOREIGN, DOCUMENTARIES, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Baraka, Koyannisqatsi, Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, There Will Be Blood, I Heart Huckabees, Indiana Jones, The Princess Bride, Magnolia, Amores Perros, Garden State, The Sea Inside, City of God, Life is Beautiful, Pulp Fiction, Woody Allen flicks, Il Postino (The Postman), Machuca, Harold and Maude, Before Sunrise, Motorcycle Diaries, Y Tu Mama Tambien, In the Mood for Love, Cinema Paradiso, Valentine, Being John Malkovich, Story of the Weeping Camel, Why We Fight, Fog of War, The Corporation, Born into Brothels, The King of Kong a Fistfull of Quarters, the BBC Planet Earth series,

Television:

Don't own one. But you will find me at my neighbors every Sunday watching Americas Funniest Home Videos.

Books:

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, Tortilla Flats, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, Farewell to Arms, Sound and the Fury, Sometimes a Great Notion, Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-22, Lolita, Master and Margarita, Jitterbug Perfume, The Great Gatsby, 9 Stories, Crime and Punishment, 1984, Ishmael, Into the Wild, The Alchemist, The Life Of Pi, The Little Prince, Schell Silverstein

Heroes:

Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John Steinbeck, James Joyce, William Faulkner, John Krakauer, Mark Twain, The Dude, Edward O. Wilson, my grandfather,