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About Me

I am mysterious, alluring, exciting, and unpredictable; then you blink your eyes and look again and I am soft, quiet, and delicate. I am passionate about everything important and everything frivolous. I never want to be tied down to a place or material objects. I always want the freedom to pick up and run away from where I have already been.I never want to live in more than one place for more than two years. I never want to get so comfortable that I forget how much is left to see and do in the world.I think I can save the world and not just by being a good person that everyone tries to be but by surpassing the expectations everyone places on me. I think tears belong in the shower so that they don't taint the beautiful face you show the world.I trust in God and that he will provide me with the tools I need to face the world. I trust in my family and friends to catch me if I fall from this huge endevaor I have taken on called life."Travelling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'" -Lisa St. Aubin de TeranWhy is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves? -Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams, 1990

My Interests

music. art. theatre. food. wine. beautiful women. the color of the sky at dusk. squirrels that look both ways before they cross the streets.

I'd like to meet:

I love open minded people that will try anything once, twice and keep trying things until they are convinced it's not for them. I love people that are passionate about something in thier lives whether it's music, art, or even how you eat your cheerios in the morning.I love people who don't plan thier lives out but I appreciate the ones who do because without you we wouldn't have planes on time or banks that open in the morning.I love people who talk to themselves because who coud ever be a better listener of you than yourself.

Music:

jazz. classical. oldies. italian. french. spanish. arabic.

Movies:

motorcycle diaries. amelie. a very long engagement. dangerous beauty. hotel rwanda. dirty love.

Television:

sex and the city on dvd (not for the show but for the memories it gave me with the women i love). shows that no one has heard of or would dare admit they loved such as quantum leap or herman's head.

Books:

when rabbit howls by truddi chase. shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafon. anything and everything by hemingway, paul auster and roddy doyle

Heroes:

myself because you can never live up to someone else's ideals, only your own.

My Blog

hes gone

There's a sour smell rising in the laundry room and I realize it's me. I haven't showered in three days and I can not even imagine raising my arms to wash my long dark hair. I closed the laundry room ...
Posted by Afrodet on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:21:00 PST

Pretty Woman

I picked it out years ago on my first visit. It's this little rundown flat in Brooklyn that I could see from a corner diner and it had a black metal terrace with a ladder that you could lower and reac...
Posted by Afrodet on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:53:00 PST

lost in the moment

Driving down the open road Monday night with my window rolled down and one hand sticking out in the light wind I force myself to feel, to not slip into my thoughts. I think sometimes I just want ...
Posted by Afrodet on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:53:00 PST

After Napoleon

One of the missiles coming from Lebanon hit 600 metres from my home in Akko. We spend everyday worrying about the Israelis killing the people we love and now suddenly the enemy is in the form of ...
Posted by Afrodet on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:07:00 PST

NYC

I found myself in NYC this past Friday afternoon wandering the streets. At some point last week, I woke up and thought there has to be more than this life I live in the office. So I set out to get los...
Posted by Afrodet on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:06:00 PST

The small things

The cell phone rings half an hour before my scheduled escape from the confines of my cubicle and I recognize my parents house number flashing at me because for some odd reason I never bothered to save...
Posted by Afrodet on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:13:00 PST

Cubicles and 401k

Piano music streaming through my left headphone, I look up from the papers cluttering my desk and I see a sickly green staring back at me. Its the green of the stubby carpet like fabric that covers on...
Posted by Afrodet on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:12:00 PST

Lucidity

There's a state of lucidity between sobriety and pure drunkenness. It was in this state lying on my side on the cheap sea green polyester cover of a hotel bed watching the static of a broken...
Posted by Afrodet on Thu, 11 May 2006 11:02:00 PST

What else is cake for?

I want so much out of a man and I have no concrete idea what it is. I need attention and space, closeness and distance, openness and mystery, extroversion and introversion, kindness and a hard e...
Posted by Afrodet on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 12:17:00 PST

Tales of Home

I am back and forth between my parents home and Austin and I am starting to feel quite stifled. I am being forced to share a bathroom with the type of little boys who do not replace toilet paper once ...
Posted by Afrodet on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 10:59:00 PST