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About Me

Warm and Open. Excited and Interested. Creative and Motivated. Inspired and Inspiring. Successful and Confident. One dash glamour, two dashes hippie and a whole lotta love.
Enamored with the abundance of the world, I move from one obsession to another soaking it all up. Along the way I keep the valuable and healthy things and make a pretty good life for myself. I am most interested in people. I love the people! I am a very active learner and will be excited if you have something good to clue me in to.
I don't have all the answers but I never stop asking questions or pushing myself. Building the life I want for myself day by day, I am a really motivating force and I will help you get what you want. Flashy-sexy living really attracts me but not to the degree that I give up my spiritual priorities to grasp it.
I have a great appreciation for the liberties that come with wealth. I practice wealth accumulation, balancing it with my spiritual pursuits. I often find that they are inextricable. I save and am frugal but am not at all cheap. I am lavish when I choose to be.
I have a highly developed skill for unearthing engaging and out of the ordinary things to do. I love new experiences and seek them with a real joy of living.
I like the energy of the morning and find that I am up early even on the weekends. It helps my head stay healthy and poetic. I am allergic to cats but am friendly enough to greet them on the street. I copy cds for everyone I know because I believe music is a key to life. I think that makes me a thief, albeit a good intending one. I like sweaty, visceral dancing in a dense crowd of bodies but I find that I don't make time to go to clubs as much as I used to.
I have grown from a giver, to an avoider, to a taker and now back to a giver. I am in my mid-30s and feel the biological urge to build something that matters. That is my primary drive. I will not have children (vasectomy) but I am driven to create meaning in my life. Much of the flash and glam has been replaced by a sincere feeling of humility and a desire to create the kind of things that make going to sleep sober acceptable.

My Interests

Practicing Meditation, Connecting with People, Aquariums, Aquatic Plants and Sea Life, Painting, Media Experiments, Moss and other Ground Cover, SCUBA Diving and Snorkeling, Shorin-Ryu Karate, Sudoku Puzzles, New Business Ventures, Tide Pools, Real Estate, Squash, Large Scale Photography, Competitive Shooting, USPSA, Sporting Clays, Slow Food, Oysters (esp. Steamboat and Snow Creek), Jai Alai, Contemporary Dance (ala Lingo, Dumb Type, 33 Fainting Spells and Maureen Whiting), New Music and Ideas, Sustainable Living, Foods of Every Kind, Leading Edge Street Art (esp Stenciling), Secret Places, Survival Skills, Guns, Skydiving, Really Good Artisan Cheeses, Caviar of All Kinds, Shiny Sneakers and Lipstick, Girls in Lingerie and See Though Clothes, Sushi and Robata, Water Views, Inner Adventures, Clarity, Nudity, Profundity, Good Craftsmanship, Female Artists, Absurd Ideas Whose Time has Come.

I'd like to meet:

Folks who have balanced lives and yet still know how to be bad.

A creative and curious girl who is warm and thoughtful and enjoys having the opportunity to be emotionally connected and vulnerable.

Music:

Uffie, of course, Regina Spektor, Lili Allen, Quitzow, Skalpel, Boxcutter, Tomasz Stanko Quartet, Junior Boys, Mulatu Astatqé, CocoRosie, A Small Good Thing, The Pink Mountaintops, Brazilian Girls, Eagles of Death Metal, Wolfmother, Mei-Lwun, Circlesquare, Boards of Canada, India Arie, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Animal Collective, Black Mountain, Devendra Banhart, Crash Worship, Adult., New Buffalo, Flunk, Jay-Z, Motley Crue, Calexico, Revolting Cocks, Interpol, Editors, Led Zepplin, Time Slips By, YYY's, Beck, Rob Gee, Deadly Buda, Citizen Cope, Joanna Newsom, Mogwai, Biggie, !!!, Daft Punk, Black Sabbath, Emmiliana Torrini, Glass Candy, Sigur Ros, Miles Davis, Feist, The Magnetic Fields, Sonnie Rollins, Outhud, Beastie Boys, Ramones, Kid 606, Arvo Part, Felix da Housecat, FannyPack, Sisters of Mercy, Be-Bop Jazz, Kings of Convenience, Flaming Lips, Double Muffled Dolphin, Velvet Underground, Arto Lindsay, Raoul Valve, AC/DC, KEXP, DJDM, Eminem, Deep House, Drum and Bass, Deep Ambient and still any really glam-nasty ElectroClash.

Movies:

I love all movies from Hollywood Action to Matthew Barney's Cremaster. I prefer movies in English but will certainly do subtitles for a good film. I am not a "film buff," I could hardly tell you anyone's name. I just love movies.

Television:

I don't watch TV but I will rent TV shows once they have been released on DVD. Boston Legal. 24. Twin Peaks. South Park. Trailer Park Boys. Six Feet Under

Books:

I enjoy Hard Sci-Fi and books with geopolitical undercurrents about disease breakouts, espionage, and the space program. I especially like stories that involve monumentally life changing events like new life forms, contact with aliens, apocalyptic events and future political systems.

...and poetry.

Kenneth Patchen. William Gibson. Michael Crichton. Greg Bear. Neil Stephenson.

Heroes:

Dr. Bronner, Tom Ford, Jay-Z, and Hugh Hefner

...but there really should be a favorite artists section......

Jeff Koons, Shepard Fairey, Henry Darger, Vanessa Beecroft, John Millei, Banksy, David Choe, Miranda July, Cecily Brown, Warhol, Basquiat, Jack Daws, Saul Becker, Audrey Kawasaki, Darren Waterston, Peregrine Honig, Tom DeGroot, Matthew Barney, Eyvind Earle, Nicola Kuperus, Norman Yeung, Amelia Raley, Matthew Richter, Lisa Yuskavage