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About Me

new agey, tree huggin', yoga doin', film buffin', tennis ball hittin', chop sueyin, sushi eatin', raver dancin, geeked out, artsy fartsy California Cliche mutt

My Interests

too many interests... however, here are a few: sleeping, dreaming, tennis (i'm totally geeked out on that right now), design, art, martial arts, taoism, wicca, the generally new agey occult thigamajig, travelling, films/video (i call this my virtual crack), speaking of virtual worlds actual VR is a "real" interest of mine, ants (sometimes weird but cool nonetheless), guitar (i'm not very good), sci-fi/fantasy/general reading

I'd like to meet:

I don't really know who I'd like to meet. I suppose anyone who treats me with a certain amount of basic consideration and who tries to be themselves. Although, I recognize that it takes time to feel comfortable with people sometimes. I enjoy hanging out with people who have a passion for life and have a generally happy attitude.

Music:

i'm pop-music challenged. pretty much up for anything. I'm an old-school raver so I enjoy trance and progressive house, but I've also been know to enjoy country western music so go figure.

Movies:

I'll have to fill this in later, since i see so many movies. I'm actually trying to get away from watching so many movies because I've been tabulating how many hours of my life adds up watching these "moving pictures".

Television:

Although i usually hate reality shows I really enjoyed Amish in the City which was an interesting take on cross-cultural issues
I hate to admit that I like Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, but we all need mental Doritos every once in a while, or at least I do
Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. Pretty geeky but I enjoy it.
The Daily Show (they should cut the interviews)
Furturama - i love the sardonic tone of it

Books:

Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
All the OZ books
anything by Gene Wolf
Tao of Pooh
Urban Shaman
The Magician's Companion
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Vurt by Jeff Noon

Heroes:

I've never really idolized anyone but I guess I'd say Monica Seles - I love her attitude towards life and tennis, plus I like the idea of having the opposite of what people would generally except for a guy's hero to be my heroine.

My Blog

An email Cone of Silence

So I've been emailing people for the past few days and almost no one has gotten back to me. It's like I exist in a Cone of Silence from the old Get Smart tv series. My voice is bouncing off but no one...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

geek! geek! geek! geek to the 3rd power

For those of you who may wonder about what I mean when I say "geek". (yeah, like anyone reads this blog...) , I define geeking out as anyone who's a little overfixated on something for a certain perio...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Invisible World of Water Bears

***WARNING - Serious Geeking out ahead*** I've been making certain art doodlings that people have told me resemble microbiological creatures, so I decided to do some research on them and, lo and ...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Resistance is Futile and other bedtime fairytales

My neighborhood has recently been targeted by developers because the housing market is so lucrative right now in LA. This, in addition to a few other events, has made the neigborhood coalesce aga...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Art of Seeing

I'm going to see the ophthalmologist again tomorrow since the eyesight in my left eye has been getting worse and worse since I got zapped in the eye accidently by a laser mouse a few months ago. They ...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Day 12,384 on Spaceship Earth

So this is day 12,384 (approx. since I didn't take into account leapyears) on Spaceship Earth for me. Hopefully, I've got anywhere between 1-20,000 more to go. I've suspect that even though I'm runni...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the Lotus Festival

Every year Echo Park hosts the Lotus Festival by the lake. The Lotus Festival is an Asia Pacific themed event. I haven't been for a while, so it was really wonderful to go there and be part of the tee...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

About my MySpace page

So, I was thinking about what I hope to accomplish withmySpace space a la the usual designer mode of thinking (what are your objectives and sub-objectives, blah, blah, blah) and I came to the conclusi...
Posted by Mario on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST