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Jeffrey the Leo

Push out the jive... bring in the love....

About Me

"There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscle."The Organ Grinder's Monkey is dead. Long live the Organ Grinder!I'm a funny, warm, down to earth guy that thrives on spending quality time and attention on worthwhile folks. I am definitely moving in an upward and forward direction and loving every single second of it.Right now, life experience, laughs, fun, and love are my highest priorities. I have high goals, high expectations, and high demands; likewise, the rewards are also high. :) I know where I'm going and where I want to be and happier in life than I ever have been before.I love the outdoors and playing in just about any form- tennis, skiing, boarding, golf, baseball, kickball, softball, racquetball, water fun, working out, i don't even care-LET'S PLAY IS WHAT I SAY. I love reading, drawing, writing, talking, dancing, travelling(roadtrips are my favorite); watching for shooting stars into late hours; laughing a LOT; hanging at the beach; watching bats fly; sitting around campfires ; taking care of my plants; watching horror flicks cuddled up with a person I love in the dark; watching any movie with a person I love, sleeping in with 'Mah Bebe' on a weekend morning having breakfast in bed and watching TV and talking(though without a bebe, I'd happily do it alone); wearing Roman sandals, jeans and t-shirts. I`m enigmatic, eclectic, honest, spiritual, flirtatious, empathetic, and a devil's advocate. I can be flaky, contradictory, indecisive, obnoxious, loud, and overbearing, though it's so easily balanced by the goodness of my soul, which I've yet to sell until I find the right price. But don`t say you weren't forewarned. I have a tremendous amount of love and emotion to offer and sometimes find pain because of it, getting hurt in the long-run but have not given up wearing my heart on my sleeve.Most of all I like connecting with people and getting to know someone for real, outside the complications of demands, interrogations and obligatory answers. You had better be a person I trust implicitly or you better get out of my world; I will be a person you can count on for that and will be loyal to you until you give me reason to be otherwise. I love my friends and always want to make more. I am close to friends all over the world and though we connect infrequently, when we do reconnect-it's like we never parted. That's when it's real and true... be that with me. My intuition tells me what I need to know and when it's off, it's not long before I discover what my intuition was tipping me off about. If you can't keep it real, do us both a favor and don't waste the energy. Complacency doesn't sit well in my world, so I keep busy and distracted with good things, but get bitched at constantly b/c of it because people think I'm flaky or don't care. Talk to me... you'll know that ain't the case.My latest thrills are taking comedy writing courses with a national comedy troupe, auditioning (finally) for Voice Acting Gigs, after not doing so for years, when I finished voice acting training and making demo reels. I'm now on a kickball and dodgeball team for a league competition that I never knew existed until recently- sounds like an excuse for people to drink to me, but still fun. Just something new for me that has the ability to make me smile, learn and have great stories afterward.Try to keep up with me and be patient... i sometimes even make myself dizzy... You know what I mean, that pressure behind the eyes, head lolling about in circles as stars flicker in your peripheral vision, tongue tingling as your stomach starts to somersault inside your body feeling... it's THAT kind of dizzy....

My Interests

Animation, Drawing, Painting, Making Soap, Cycling, Swimming, Ski/Snowboarding, Outdoors, BurningMan!, Reading, Film/DVD buff, Dancing, Gamecube/PS2, Tennis, Any kind of WaterFun(nothin kinky), Writing, Intelligent conversation, hangin with friends and feeding my heroin habit while reading to the elderly and infirmed. Who is actually reading this right now? Five Gold Stars to anyone who can answer it: First of all, the retarded don’t rule the night. They don’t rule it. Nobody does. And they don’t run in packs. While they may not be as strong as apes, don’t lock eyes with them. It puts them on edge. It might put them on bezerker mode. Come at you like a whirling dervish, all fists and elbows. You might be screaming “No, no, no” and all they hear is “Who wants cake.”...

I'd like to meet:

Above all, Maturity. The ability to set aside emotional irrationality when confronted with the need to exhibit calm and careful demeanor. Conversation and openness of yourself is the most amazing thing to root connection to me and bond to a most solid ground. I will always open with full disclosure and express myself freely. I love life and you should too, with me.DO NOT LIE to me. If you shake my trust, you're gone. I've grown up enough and been through enough in life to know better. Everyone goes through it and I know that, but unless you're a 20 yr.old or just thereabout, you should know better too. There's nothing more sad&pathetic than a grown adult who's a pathological liar or egomaniac-unless you are a sociopath&legitimately have a medical condition planning or already taking medication for it.Most importantly is the tendency to show compassion and kindness (to yourself and others) when the darkest parts of our hearts make us afraid and insecure. I look for: Honesty, Sincerity, Humility, Humor, Wit, Charm, Intelligence, Care, Openness, Kindness, Empathy, That crystalline shine that the most wonderful people I know always seem to exude. The eyes tell me everything I need to know usually. Talk&converse with me, question me, impart wisdom to me, teach me the things you know best and show me what you're good at. Challenge me (appropriately) and joke with me because I'm sure as hell going to do all those things to you.I also want to meet the interesting and/or toxic people.. the drunks, the people who poke about short people, bald people, queers, Siamese Twins and the elderly, drug (ab)users, chain smokers, pot tokers, and white trash crackers... but they could tell the jokes to any of those above-mentioned people because they're obviously not even remotely close to serious about it when the love they have is so clear to everyone. Anyone who knows and can introduce me to Amy Sedaris or anyone who also loves Amy Sedaris, anyone who reads David Sedaris, people who have dogs missing one leg, someone who saw Fabio the day a goose smashed into his face on that rollercoaster, public masturbators, hand and/or foot models, nipple fondlers and pooper scoopers, people who wear an eyepatch or fake mustache, anyone that can speak Pittsburghese, or anyone who knows what a Dirty Sanchez, Donkey Punch, Rusty Trombone and Hot Carl is. Make me smile, make me laugh, make me think and make me cry(out of love-fuck off if you make me cry in pain).I have an eclectic group of friends whom I care about. I love meeting new people- hit me up. Hopefully I can meet some more eclectic folks who I can love meeting. And be upfront. Don't pretend to be someone you aren't and that will say volumes.. but make a genuine attempt and you will surely catch my attention. I want to meet anyone who read this whole damn profile. Oh yeah... did I mention I'd also really like to meet anyone who knows Amy Sedaris? ;-)

Music:

deep/jazzy house ala naked & cafe del mar, eclectic tastes: Sting to Pizzicato 5 to Maceo Parker to Lisa Shaw to A3 to Scissor Sisters to Dolly Parton to Paul Van Dyke to Sasha/Digweed, Dmitri, Miguel Migs, damn near ALL naked music. love me some funk. If it's got a beat, I'll listen to it and probably find something good to great in it. I'm always willing to hear something new- even if it be a first and a last time only....

Movies:

Big Lebowski, Fargo, LOTR tril., Delicatessen, Waiting for Guffman, American Beauty, The Thing, Gods and Monsters, Heavenly Creatures, Iris, Clue, Freeway, Magnolia, Requiem for a Dream, Silence of the Lambs, Misery, Nightmare B4 Xmas, Serial Mom, Dancer in the Dark, 9 to 5, Mary Poppins, oh man, there are a lot of 'em. I'm a movie nut. ...

Television:

not a huge TV fan, except on DVD without commercials. as TV goes, ADULT SWIM!!!!!DISCOVERY CHANNEL AND HISTORY CHANNEL; HEROES!!!!; simpsons; family guy; invader zim; SeaLab; South Park; ST:TNG; Buffy; Carnivale is a strange fix, AbFab, Kids In the Hall, Lost,things I DO watch on 'real' tv not regularly, but worth tuning into: Daily Show; At one time, Alias... but not anymore; MythBusters; Inside the Actor's Studio; PBS; Discovery Channel, History Channel; Golden Girls; Smurfs or DuckTales, if only they'd ever play the damn things again.I miss Liquid Television. Is there ANYONE out there who has seen or remembers Turkey TV on Nickelodeon many years ago?...

Books:

TOO MANY TO LIST HERE.If you know Guns, Germs and Steel... you got a big something we can talk about.

Heroes:

I need a hero... I’m holding out for a hero 'till the morning light. He’s gotta be sure, And it’s gotta be soon, And he’s gotta be larger than life. I need a heeeeerrrrrooooo...and Kelly-

My Blog

In her satin tights, fightin for her rights... and the ole Red, White, and Blue!

Wonder Woman!!!hehehehe... i'm going to go see Linda Carter AKA Wonder Woman tongiht.  A friend who is uber obsessed with her got me a ticket and she's going to be ?singing? somewhere.  I gu...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Wed, 02 May 2007 02:18:00 PST

Holy Shit

I can't believe how long it's been since I've logged into this thing... wow, I really need to catch up. Life is wonderful, Saturn is returning, and I couldn't find myself in a happier place in life. ...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:20:00 PST

I know I haven't responded to any mail....

SORRY! I've been super super busy (in good ways)! There have been some amazing developments in my life but sadly it's left me with less time than I'd like, esp. to be on here very much. I haven't e...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 06:56:00 PST

Doctor Atomic

went ot the opera last night with like 20 of my friends. we all got dressed up and they converged at my place where we ate tuna noodle cassarole(so delicious) and had some drinks and champagne(also d...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Sat, 15 Oct 2005 01:22:00 PST

Life is short, Love is long

I feel sorry for those people who disregard the love and time spent with the people they love. I think it really exemplifies just how incapable a person is to recognize, acknowledge or experience love...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 06:04:00 PST

It all comes full circle

It's wierd but all the things we experience as children and all the things we go through with our parents come back to us as adults. We subconsciously choose people and situations that mimic those wh...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:28:00 PST

LoveParade/Folsom

I had a ridiculously good time this weekend. There were so many friends from out of town in and a few of my old friends from college and we were moving all weekend long. I haven't been out like that i...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:40:00 PST

The Crazy Weekend

well, starting to do some work but i wanted to type a little here first before i get into the thick of it. a friend from college is in town whom my roommate and i have not seen in many years. he's h...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:17:00 PST

Power to the Peaceful

I don't know if anyone made it out to this while here in the city, but I've gotta say that I was really blown away by it. It's a remarkable thing to see when there has been so much over the last many...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:48:00 PST

long time, no read...

wow, sometimes i lose track of all of this stuff that i find it overwhelming to catch up. Then when I am here trying to expunge some brain vomit, I find myself at a loss for words. What a pisser. ...
Posted by Jeffrey the Leo on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST