Tie Dye Steve

I'd like to meet:

A woman in her early to mid thirties (although I wouldn't turn away late twenties or early forties), who has her own thing (artwork, place to live, income and transportation) going on, but space in her life to meld with what I do.

She will either have the patience to allow me to complete my projects, or the initiative to jump in and help me.
She should be adventurous, playful, and unpredictable, but respectful of my boundaries.
She should be able to take care of herself, but occasionally allow me to take care of her as well. She should be able to face minor crises with an even and cool head, and to allow for both of us to provide mutual support in all of our endeavors, together or apart.
She can't be the jealous type for two, non-negotiable reasons.
1. I teach women self-defense
(I also bow to some extraordinary female instructors who teach me), and
2. I frequently accept new phone numbers, in social situations,
from people ordering a tie-dye.
These are also reasons why I am determined to take things slowly,
so that anyone I do get together with will be confident that I can control my libido.
I'm no prude though,
...I can deliver a great bawdy joke (in the right time and place),
...I've been told that I sometimes growl 'in the the heat of the moment',
and...I enjoy doing Tasteful Nude Artwork
(for which she'll want to pose often ;)

Music:

I grew up with Classic Rock, but I appreciate a good symphony as well. I also like Bluegrass, Reggae, Blues, Spacey Funk, and I'm in a Grateful Dead Tribute Band, so a lot of my listening time is devoted to them.

Take the quiz:
Which Grateful Dead Song are You?

St. Stephen
(Surprise Surprise!)
You are a deep person. You tend to get caught up in the beauty that's left in the world. You like to take full advantage of all situations. You keep on being yourself, there needs to be more people in the world that will just take a minute to enjoy nature.

Movies:

I like to rent movies to watch while I work, and I mix it up between comedy, music, drama, action/science fiction, martial arts.
Movies I own copies of - The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, Panic Room, Copycat, The Recruit, Rock Star, Boogie Nights, The Original Star Wars Trilogy, Dances With Wolves, The Thirteenth Warrior, The Tolkein Trilogy, Clerks, Murder At 1600, Walk The Line, Superman Returns, Ray (Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles), Pi, The Bruce Lee Master Collection, and lots of Grateful Dead Concert Movies.
Movies I'd like to own; Festival Express, anything Grateful Dead that I don't already have (I'm in 'The End Of The Road', 6 minutes in, I get interviewed), Saving Grace, Kentucky Fried Movie, The Matrix and it's sequels...

Television:

I also enjoy watching some TV while working. Mostly PBS because that's where you find the most objective political reporting, and I'm always up for This Old House. But funny keeps the mood light while I'm putting love into my work, so, Funniest Home Videos, Seinfeld, Mad About You, Cheers, Just Shoot Me, Home Improvement, That Seventies Show, Malcolm in the Middle, Simpsons, King of the Hill...
Don't like- all the Crime Drama's, Medical Drama, Reality TV, or mainstream sports, but I do enjoy Sports Bloopers. I also like the stunts on Fear Factor, but the 'eating gross stuff' is a big turn-off, that's when I change the channel.

Books:

I like to always be reading something, usually two or three books at a time. I am currently reading fiction~ Robert Ludlum's 'The Bancroft Strategy', and recently finished Tommy Chong's 'I Chong', about his time in prison (I often commented before reading the book, that "Tommy Chong is living proof that this war has nothing to do with Freedom", and I feel even more resolved to that quote now), before that I read 'Sophie's World', a fiction based on the study of philosophy, and it peaked my curiosity to explore the works of Plato and Socrates. I'm also currently reading The Great Dialogues Of Plato and The Taoist Inner View Of The Universe. I've read all of the J.R.R. Tolkein books ( I decided to read the books before allowing myself to see the movies), all of the 'biography' series of The Grateful Dead (members and crew), The Scorpion Sanction, Catch 22, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, several Martial Arts related books; Hwa Rang Do (Volume One), Jiu Jitsu Techniques (White to Green), Internal Alchemy, The Warrior Is Silent, Breathing Underwater, Aikido For Life, Sun Tzu's 'The Art Of War, The Teaching Of Buddha, The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyayana, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, The Day They Hanged The Sioux, The Things They Carried, Several John Lennon biographies (including the 'negative' one by Albert Goldman, and I still hold 'The Walrus' in high esteem) Sphere, The Celestine Prophecy (and it's sequels), Conversations With God (and it's sequels), Andrew Carnegie's 'How To Win Friends And Influence People', The Seventh Commandment, The Da Vinci Code, The Prophet, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence, Zen and the Art of Seeing, Zen in the Martial Arts ( three totally different 'Zen' books), The Born Again Skeptics Guide To The Bible, and (most of) The Bible (I couldn't get past 'Laviticus' and 'Numbers', Moses was an extortionist!!!), All four books from the Hichhikers Guide 'Trilogy' (The Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, The Restaurant At The Edge Of The Universe, So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish, and there's one more that I'll remember later) , All of Kurt Vonnegut's stuff, most of Mark Twain's stuff, George Orwell's '1984' and 'Animal Farm', Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World', The Hundredth Monkey, In The Company Of Eagles, Different Drum, The Road Less Travelled, The Emporer Wears No Clothes, The Rockefeller File, Amy Goodman's 'The Exception to the Rulers' (I'm very proud to say that I was her bodyguard last year when she spoke at the Eureka Municipal Auditorium), Gregg Pallast's 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy', JFK's The Strategy Of Peace, and I recently re-read Hitler's 'Mein Kampf', don't get the wrong idea there though, it's not because I agree with him, on the contrary, it's because I see way too many parallels in what's going on today, and I like to be able to debate with an educated tongue. I've spent hours reading from the USA PATRIOT ACT, and still have not gotten through the whole thing, as it refers to many existing laws that it amends, but enough to know that the Bill of Rights has been abolished.
I also read the Times-Standard almost every day,
The Arcata Eye, The North-Coast Journal, and The HSU Lumberjack, every week,
and I recieve the Washington Post, New York Times, and The San Francisco Chronicle, daily, online.
Yeah, I like to read...

Heroes:

Many Heroes for Many Reasons. I try to be one myself from time to time.
Some Famous People that I've had the pleasure of meeting;
(In no particular order)
Santa Claus, Allan Bravo, Eric Clapton, David Crosby, John Fogarty, Joan Baez, Country Joe Mac Donald, Ritchie Havens, Bunny Wailer, Melvin Seals, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, All of Little Feat, All of Leftover Salmon, All of Cubensis, Chris Robinson, Mark Ford, All of REM, Corby Yates, Keller Williams, The California Guitar Trio, Don Haupt, Merl Saunders, Members of Janis Joplin's Band - Big Brother and the Holding Company, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Cassidy, Pete Sears, Mickey Hart, Bonnie Raitt, Ricky Lee Jones, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Woody Harrelson, Cheech Marin, Weird Al Yankovich, Dr. Demento, David Nelson and his band, Timothy Leary, Jack Herer, Guardian Angels Founder- Curtis Sliwa, Hwa Rang Do's Chief Master Taejoon Lee, Rev. Joseph Lowry, Josea Williams, Corretta Scott King, Ru Paul, John Trudell, Darrel Cherney, Amy Goodman, Michael Franti...
Most were random and brief meetings, right place at the right time kind of thing, so some of these people wouldn't remember me from Jack's Brother, although most of them have a piece of my work, and some members of Little Feat have bought a lot of my work, and ask for it to be hanging when they play here. Those guys are very hospitable.
I apologize
to anyone I've left out.
I've never forgotten
the words to a song,
but I often forget
that I know them.
Haven't met The Dixie Chicks, But I'd like to. ........ ..