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About Me

Is it really possible to define ourselves in absolute terms?..After all, aren't we from the time we are born, in a state of transition and personal evolution (or at least, isn't that the idea, lol)? Well, maybe it's for that reason that I'm not going to write more here, or maybe it's just that it's late, and that I'm new to this myspace thing.. but for now, a few of my favorite poems will have to do..Want to know more, send me a message and I will oblige.
O LIVING always--always dying!
O the burials of me, past and present!
O me, while I stride ahead, material, visible, imperious as ever!
O me, what I was for years, now dead, (I lament not I am content)
O to disengage myself from those corpses of me, which I turn and look at, where I cast them!
To pass on, (O living! always living!) and leave the corpses behind!
-- Walt Whitman
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; There is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death, in order to know how good it is to live.

-- Alexandre Dumas
It's that time of the year again..the time when thousands of other techno aficionados make their pilgrimage to the mecca I am lucky enough to call home..DETROIT.
Richie Hawtin at DEMF 2007
Jeff Mills at DEMF 2007

My Interests

Anything challenging and intellectually/emotionally stimulating that could lend itself to greater insight into the world around us and into the spectrum of the human experience (well, within reason of course)...writing, music, political/philosophical discussions (en garde!), psycho/social theory, evolutionary psychology, hiking, camping, whitewater rafting, traveling (the background pic was taken in Glencoe, Scotland, one of the most beautiful places I've yet seen), learning languages,etc...

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Anything from techno, bossa nova, and blue grass to hyper-charged gypsy brass, esp. artists the likes of which include Goran Bregovic, Sezen Aksu, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Astrud Gilberto, Sting, Keane, Leonard Cohen, Ryan Adams, Nick Drake, Ray LaMontagne, Radiohead, Bell X1, Loredana Berte.., The Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Coldplay, Madredeus, Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone, Dead Can Dance, Brian Eno, Harold Budd, The Radio Dept., Underworld, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Alison Kraus, Edith Piaf, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Van Morrison, Donovan, Jeff Mills, Underground Resistance, Francois K, etc. etc.

Movies:

Emir Kusturica's 'Underground', 'Time of the Gypsies', and 'Black Cat White Cat', 'American Beauty', 'Lolita' (2002), 'The Color Purple', 'Hannah and Her Sisters', 'Deconstructing Harry'(and pretty much any Woody Allen film), 'Far and Away', 'Amores Perros', 'The Truman Show', 'Baraka', 'Metropolis, 'Il Cinema Paradiso', 'Roman Holiday', 'Breakfast at Tiffany's', 'Il Postino', 'When Harry Met Sally', 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Dangerous Beauty','Lord of War', and the non-animated versions of Alice In Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1985) (two of the strangest films you will ever see)

Television:

I don't really watch a lot of tele, but I do like Scrubs and Changing Rooms a lot. As a kid, I loved Little House on the Prairie (maybe it had something to do with being named after Laura Ingalls)

Books:

All of Maya Angelou's autobiographies, esp. 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', Hesse's 'Siddharta' and 'The Steppenenwolf', anything by Slavenka Drakulic, esp. 'How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed', Virginia Woolf, Sartre, Goethe, the poetry of Pablo Neruda (If You Forget Me, Saddest Poem, Clenched Soul, Sonnet XVII), e.e. cummings (somewhere i have never traveled), Poe (Dream within a Dream, To Helen), Walt Whitman (O Living Always-Always Dying), and my favorite books as a kid, 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'

Heroes:

Well, I'd have to say anyone with a great deal of integrity, especially those rare individuals who are able stand defiantly alone in the face of adversity. One person I've grown to admire very much is Loredana Berte; regardless of what is said of her, she remains strong in who she is.