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Joel

I am here for Networking

About Me

. Revolutionary Idealist fueled by beans and rice. GO VEGAN! I change 10% of my water weekly. I have a son who shows me how to successfully keep it simple. I don't drink, I don't do drugs. This was not always the case. What happened? Some of you were around, most I pushed away. Alienation and isolation, Guilt and shame. Desire ceased being met with satisfaction...none of my plans and designs materialized as I saw fit... much trouble and much sacrifice..darkness, default, despair...To make a long story short, my life became unmanageable. It was then, I found myself left with nothing staring at a scratched up metal mirror uttering the words "please help". Like the phoenix... from ashes I rose...holding your hands and clinging to your hope. I am forever indebted to your service. Today I walk with purpose, a warrior of splendid virtue. I do not wear a suit to work and I do not own a home. What happened to this college graduate you might ask? I am holding out for something better. We are not what we own. "Things" own us and we are enslaved to their maintenance. True freedom lies in renunciation. Against my egoic minds hidden agenda, I surrender a little at a time. I struggle with the middle path but really like the notion. More important, I use 12 steps and a baker named Aunt Cal to stop the violence I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1 .

My Interests

My son and true love Elijah, bonsai, vegtable gardeing, coffee, coral reef aquariums, basketball, jogging, talking less shit and becoming less selfish. Did I say coffee?

I'd like to meet:

The people responsible for selling culture based on identification with form and rugged individualism. The cattle following behind, awaiting their arrival. The ones chasing the carrot, subscribing to the notion that they will be taking their aquisitions with them.

Music:

Rise Against, Ignite, Good Riddance, Bad Rellegion, AVAIL, Rancid, Operation Ivy, Dag Nasty, Minor Threat, Sick of it All, Boysetsfire, and Ensign to name a few.

Movies:

The Departed, Good Fellas, Fight Club, V for Vendetta, Good Will Hunting, The Good- the Bad and the Ugly, The Goonies, Spiderman, Star Wars, and True romance (Patricia Arquette and those fucked up Teeth... ooo lala)

Television:

Deadwood and Six feet under and Lost. The Sacramento Kings!

Books:

A Peoples History of the United States by Howard Zinn, Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky, The Way of the Peacefull Warrior by Dan Millman. Awakening the Buddah Inside by Lama Surya Das, When things Fall Apart and Comfortable With Uncertainty by Pema Chodron, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, The Big Book of Double A, Into Thin Air by Krakauer, It's not About the Bike by Lance Armstrong (by the way, this mother fucker is not a fraud), A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard by James Frey even if you were the Milli Vanilli of Literature, i'm a sucker for a comeback story

Heroes:

Sidartha Guatama, Ghandi, Michael Moore, Subcomandate Marcos and the Zapatista Rebellion Army, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky. All the other motherfuckers putting principles and people before property and institutions.