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John

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About Me

I was born and raised in Richmond VA, and sweet tea, bluegrass, and front-porches will always be dear to my heart. I love music, play a few instruments, and sing motown and monster ballads in the shower. I can lose an entire weekend to coffee, pastries, movies, and good converstion. I have camped in Grand Canyon, kayaked through Mexican jungles, bed-and-breakfast'ed my way through southern Europe, but I have never been to a Cubs game.

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Richmond, VA
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Where I come from and where I am today...


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My Interests

"The unexamined life is not worth living"
.. I like live music, coffee shops, exploring new places, literature, skin, kyaking, philosophy, nice jeans, challenging intellectual conversations, being outdoors, and learning guitar. I've been camping in Grand Canyon and now I'm hooked--wanna go back with me?

I'd like to meet:

"It is better to be impetuous than cautious, for Fortune is a woman, and it is necessary, if you wish to keep her down, to beat her and knock her about."--N. Machiavelli. I like passionate people who have something to say, however out there it is.

Road trip companions, deep thinkers, southern ex-pats, tequilla drinkers, observers, challengers, unselfish people with contagious smiles, individuals, iconoclasts, the east coast diaspora, anyone who can drag me out of my shell, those who seek the bigger picture...

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''The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'' Albert Camus

"To show compassion for an individual without showing concern for the structures of society that make him an object of compassion is to be sentimental rather than loving" William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

"May God give you an inquiring and discerning heart, the courage to will and to persevere, a spirit to love, and the gift of joy and wonder." -Adapted from a Catholic baptismal prayer


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This is my favorite Monet...House of Parliament at Sunset

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I love the stars

Music:

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Eddie From Ohio, Lyle Lovett, Counting Crows, Seldom Scene, Sigur Ros, Dixie Chicks, Classic Rock, Monster Ballads, Folk, Bluegrass, Oldies, '90s Rock, I'm always on the lookout for good 80's songs (ie: memories of roller skate night) so drop me some hits!

Movies:

Almost Famous, La Dolce Vita, Amadeus, Heathers, Big Fish, Donnie Darko, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Flirting With Disaster, O Brother Whereart Thou, Uncle Buck, Queens of Comedy, Mean Girls, The Sweetest Thing, Harry Potter, Brokeback Mountain just for the scenery

Television:

Don't watch that much T.V...I actually don't have one that does anything besides show movies

Books:

At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill, 100 Years of Solitude, Skinny Legs and All, Middlesex, Hooking Up (Tom Wolfe), The Prince, House of God, Tao of Pooh, Fitzpatrick's Atlas of Dermatology, Song of Myself, and many others...we should talk :)

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.. .. Ocracoke Island off the coast of OBX, NC: view from the Ferry (Spring '03)

Heroes:

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy"--F. Scott Fitzgerald