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Timothy

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

i am a mover and a shaker. i spent several years traveling the world and being a bum- a cultured, sort of executive bum- now, i want to find a middle-ground between being an intellectual bum and a wealthy professional/or artist. i'll probably end up a yuppie, with a lot of experience and perspective, prone to sabbaticals and yoga-retreats.

My Interests

world literature, brasil, ninjas, japan, art, japanese art, futurism, orientalism, painters like naoto hattori, mark ryden, gustav klimt, schiele, rembrandt, constantin koronin. i like making small talk with strangers, learning hand gestures from different cultures. i like the cultural scene one finds in cities like berlin, barcelona, buenos aires, sao paulo, tokyo, st. petersberg, and of course, new york city. i also like the mediterranean coast, all the way around. brazil, beaches, el caribe, dancing, learning languages. talking to people, in general.

Music:

blues, gypsy, electronic, cuban, classical/jazz fusion, brazilian funk, the 80's, hendrix. i'd really like some recommendations from music snobs. sometimes i just savor the sounds of the subway.

Movies:

house of sand and fog... city of god, amelie, i heart huckebees, napolean dynamite, easy rider, zorba the greek, black orpheus, gloomy sunday, 3 amigos, bar fly, films by kurosawa, federico fellini, jean-luc godard, uhh, ran, big lebowsky, tron, star wars, team america. old boy. others.

Television:

television is evil and a purveyor of all manner of manipulative trash. i hate television. i like south park, the daily show, the simpsons, family guy.

Books:

cien años de soledad, jose saramago, italo calvino, lermontov, hannah arendt, heidegger, nietzsche, bukowsky, jean jenet, dostoevsky, umberto eco, arturo perez-riverte, the shogun saga, into the wild, on the road, any book by hermann hesse or steve martin, goethe- the sorrows of young werther, letters to a young poet by rilke, henry miller, nabokov, foucault.... e. e. cummings, coleridge, poems from the japanese and the chinese. nikos kazanzakis, naguib mahfouz. ultimately, i can't recall a lot of what i've read.

Heroes:

people who have integrity. my parents. henry miller, jean jenet, or any other who faced off with adversity in our society or another more controlling.

My Blog

I fell out of a cherry tree.

I fell out of a cherry tree.  I heard a cracking noise, and everyone within one hundred yards turned their heads to see me plummet to the ground.  I didn't really have time to move, but I so...
Posted by Timothy on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:25:00 PST

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards

"The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.  The evil men are the power- the rich men, and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion...
Posted by Timothy on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:32:00 PST

Of all the sights of NYC...

Of all the sights of nyc, one tends to stick out for me lately, since I've begun to notice it and that is... Dudes on heroine just chilling in public, as stoned as a human being can be. Yesterday, I ...
Posted by Timothy on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:10:00 PST

i had a strange dream lastnight.

i had a dream lastnight, a beautiful nightmare. i was a child in the woods with all the wonder and mystery they hold. esoteric powers, ineffable and faceless forces, terror, awe, and sublime...
Posted by Timothy on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:18:00 PST

musing, speculating, and autocogitating

I'm sitting at my buddy's house naked, he's not home, of course, and I wanna give props to Baudelaire's thrice-great Satan, l'ennui, known in English as 'boredom'.  The tight mosiac of...
Posted by Timothy on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:01:00 PST

on nyc and existentialism and women

aaaah so, i just wanted to congratulate you all on being so damned good-looking. i ... should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.my seas have been silent at le...
Posted by Timothy on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 10:47:00 PST

repatriated

back in the northerly hemisphere, adapting to life here anew, taking care of things, going to church with the famdamily, you know, the USHE! next week i might be in brussels, buenos aires, nyc, or kai...
Posted by Timothy on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:09:00 PST

about to leave brasil or am i?

the days keep passing and i~m still here in so paulo, a enormous anthill sprawling and connecting to all the others cities in this state, derelicts asleep in the middle of the sidewalk, punk kids doin...
Posted by Timothy on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:15:00 PST

siga el viaje sin fin

many of you know that joseph and i are in south america, soon to be joined by other friends from colorado and california and nyc. we're in buenos aires right now, staying with people we meet through t...
Posted by Timothy on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:16:00 PST