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Erik

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About Me

I like to read and I like to think. I stay busy, and I feel like a slacker when I take time to relax. I like a good conversation, be it about religion or sex or food.I like people. People can be incredibly lazy, and because of this they can become stupid, hurtful, dramatic, sloppy, narrow-minded, and a host of other irritating qualities. And yet, I cannot resist them. I have a genuine fondness for my fellow humans. Perhaps it is because I am flawed in all the same ways!My possessions are important to me, and occasionally I try to simplify ... to ween myself off material things. Then I gorge. I also drink too much.I am a boy in an aging body. I am evil. I guess I mean that I am utterly selfish, the way that children can be. I try to make up for it in my small ways, but I'm not fooling anyone.
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My Interests

Absinthe, Acting, Alcohol, Altered States, Archery, Bartending, Beer, Books, British, Cards, Ceremony, Chess, Cigars, Commedia dell'Arte, Cooking, Costuming, Craps, Dice, Dickens Christmas Fair, Drinking Alone, Dungeons & Dragons, English, Etymology, Family, Fine Spirits, Fire Breathing, Food, Friends, Gambling, Gaming, German, Gin, Good Eats, Grammar, Hard Liquor, History, Honda Shadow VLX, Hypnosis, Juggling, Jujitsu, Kickboxing, Linguistics, Magic, Martial Arts, Martinis, Meditation, Mixology, Morality, Motorcycles, Mythology, Native American, Norse, People, Period Films, Philosophy, Pipe Tobacco, Pirates, Poker, Pretentiousness, Programming, Psychology, Religion, Renaissance Faire, Ritual, Rum, Runes, Satanism, Sewing, Sex, Shakespeare, Sonnets, Swedish, Swords, Tattoos, Tequila, Throwing Knives, Vikings, Violence, Whiskey, Wine, Writing

I'd like to meet:

I'm not really here to meet people. Rather, I want to keep track of the million or so people I already know, but never get to spend time with. Then again, one can never have too many friends, right?

Music:

Leonard Cohen, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphy, Metallica, Beethoven, Jon Bon Jovi, Alien Fashion Show

Movies:

The Departed, Boondock Saints, Dead Man, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Montana, Dream for an Insomniac, Imposters, Fight Club, Lord of the Rings

Television:

Heroes, The Black Donnelleys, Firefly, Babylon 5, Scrubs, Good Eats, Battlestar Galactica, Molto Mario

Books:

Ender's Game, Midshipman's Hope, Living the Martial Way, Prometheus Rising, Crazy Wisdom, Tigana

Heroes:

Kristal, the love of my life, my parents Viki and Joel, my sister Cora, and my brothers: Matt, Sam, Dave, Rob, Ben, Orion, and Nathan.