Peace, Love, Rock n Roll, & a Really FAST Car!
Meta-cognition, consciousness, philosophy, psychology, music, words, cats, friends, dancing, writing, traveling, working out, Yoga, Tex-Mex, Cirque du Soleil, Asian objects d'art, hiking, swimming, parties, local live music, festivals, sleeping, driving my car, photography, mountains, oceans, snorkeling, snow skiing, natural health, aromatherapy, concerts, restaurants, Sea Breezes, passion, life...
I'd like to meet:
I am primarily here for keeping in touch with old friends, making new friends, networking, and finding cool indie music.
In general, I enjoy people who are intelligent, open-minded, active, more liberal than conservative, and health-oriented. I value people who seek to gain knowledge and insight by everything they experience in the world more than "formal education." I have learned more from my life experience than all my years of schooling. I just like intellectual, artistic, and/or creative people because they inspire me to live in my own life with more meaning and expression. Although I have a very poised and confident demeanor, I also have an aspect of a closet dork who likes to let my hair down and be goofy, so it's always nice to hang out with someone who appreciates the juxtaposition of contrasts.
When dating, I am interested in an intelligent, tall, sexy, self-secure, emotionally-attuned guy (29-50), who's open to diverse ideas and new experiences. I am more compatible with someone who prefers to be out in the sunshine or out on the town 'til dawn more than sitting on the couch in front of the T.V. (Of course, the occasional evening of "take-out" and DVDs is cool.). I'm looking for someone who is not content with the status quo and believes in lifelong personal development and growth. Also, I'm attracted to someone who is socially adept and interpersonally savvy, yet who also has a solid, secure personal identity.
In a romantic relationship, I value open communication, honesty, intellectual connectedness, emotional intimacy, sexual chemistry, and a balance between "interdependence" and mutual respect for each other's independence.
Unless we have some intellectual commonality to share, I am not looking for e-mail pen-pals. I am primarily interested in bright and open-minded individuals, who are interested in interacting outside of cyberspace. I am open to meeting people of any age or persuasion if we resonate with one another, but I'm not looking for a BOY TOY! Thanks for the offers though. ;)
Music:
I love live music!!! Music is my therapy for life.
Duran Duran, David Bowie, Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, Jimi Hendrix, Oingo Boingo, Neil Finn, Crowded House, Split Enz, Thompson Twins, The Cure, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Blondie, Divinyls, Prince, The Sex Pistols, The Doors, Pat Travers, Adam Ant, Garbage, The Bangles, Ben Harper, Hinder, Nickelback, Blue October, Fondue Monks, Hadden Sayers Band, Tori Amos, The Bangles, Elvis Costello, Lindsey Buckingham, Marty Casey & the Lovehammers, Sisters of Mercy, Stranglers, Dramarama, NIN, "Cirque du Soleil" soundtracks, Louis XIV, The Killers, Evans Blue, Iggy Pop, Sum 41, Peeping Tom, Faith No More, Bowling for Soup, Depeche Mode, Psychedelic Furs, Queen, Ramones, Arcadia, SiNDADDY, English Beat, Belouis Some, Propaganda, Siouxie & the Banshees, Bananarama, Tears for Fears, The Fixx, Big Audio Dynamite, Power Station, Cheap Trick, Jewel, Nik Kershaw, The Buzzcocks, Stranglers, Vicious Pink, Billy Squier, Sade, Cocteau Twins, Morcheeba, Kasabian, Stabbing Westward, Seether, Your Vegas, The Shins, Book of Love, Jake Coco, Shiny Toy Guns, Incubus, The Dream Academy, Jewel, Goldfrapp, The Hush Sound, Sia, Dean Martin, The Kaiser Chiefs, Motion City Soundtrack
Movies:
Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, A Room with a View, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Enchanted April, Much Ado About Nothing, Ruby in Paradise, Love Actually, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Bladerunner, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotted Mind, Garden State, Almost Famous, Velvet Goldmine, The Doors, Fearless, Fight Club, Good Will Hunting, High Fidelity, Batman Begins, Star Wars (1st & 2nd Trilogy), Sirens, Dangerous Beauty, The White Countess, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Cinema Paradiso, Like Water For Chocolate, I Heart Huckabees, Elizabethtown, Coffee & Cigarettes, Thank You For Smoking, Cars, Proof, The Secret Garden,
Rambling Rose, Cars, Somewhere in Time, Six Degrees of Separation, Reality Bites, Next Stop Wonderland, Tortilla Soup, Shadowlands, The Fisher King, Patch Adams, The Importance of Being Earnest, Remains of the Day, Banger Sisters, Singles, La Femme Nikita, Speed, Batman Forever; Last Tango in Paris; Indiana Jones Trilogy; L'Auberge Espanol; Nudo di Donna; Italian For Beginners; James Bond flicks; Across the Universe; Mamma Mia; Dreamland; Burn After Reading; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Casablanca;
Television:
Northern Exposure, Six Feet Under, Sex and the City, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, The West Wing, South Park, King of the Hill, Law and Order: Criminal Intent
Books:
"Eros and Pathos: Shades of Love and Suffering" by Aldo Carotenuto;
"Immortality," "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and others by Milan Kundera;
"The Prophet" by Kahlil Gibran; "The Mastery of Love" by Don Miguel Ruiz; "Care of the Soul" by Thomas Moore; "Jitterbug Perfume" and others by Tom Robbins;
Heroes:
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Soren
Kierkegaard
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The doors to heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
Nikos Kazantzakis -
"The Last Temptation of Christ"
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Real love, genuine love, requires two individuals consciously choosing to care, not out of need or fear, but from a sense that this 'other' expands our universe rather than just making it safe.
Nancy Friday - "The Power of Beauty"
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If the doors to perception were
cleansed every thing would
appear to man as it is, infinite.
For man has closed himself up
till he sees all thro' narrow
chinks of his concern.
William Blake
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There is no human condition comparable to love for making one accept the
burden of suffering for the other. This may seem strange to those who suppose
love must unfailingly bring happiness, but that is the illusion we create for
ourselves in order to survive the interminable hours of suffering. Only those
we love can make us suffer with the same intensity that we love.
Aldo Carotenuto - "Eros and Pathos"
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Worry never robs
Tomorrow of its sorrow;
It only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia - “Born for Loveâ€
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Your friends will know you better
in the first minute you meet
than your acquaintances will know
you in a thousands years.
Don’t be dismayed at good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before
you can meet again.
And meeting again,
After moments or lifetimes,
is certain for those who are friends.
Richard Bach - "Illusions"
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Twenty years from now,
you will be more disappointed by
the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
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Something...happens to a lover in the throes of desire. The external points of reference are gone. Love takes us off the beaten track, away from what we have long known; the realities we now encounter must be continually interpreted because they have no models in our past.
Aldo Carotenuto - "Eros and Pathos"
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Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And Dance like no one is watching.
Author unknown
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