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reed

I am here for Friends

About Me

i'm not going to put a time reference into my profile, as i don't know when i'll be next updating it... but i've been promoted again to the national sales director of a giant home textiles company.

i moved into a beautiful 1br out in queens, on 34th avenue near both trains, and i love my apt/grocery store/neighborhood/having my friends-girlfriend close by .. and, well, everything about it.

My work situation is ideal ... i talk about it too much [work's fine...]

in the fall, i met and started dating the best girlfriend in the free world [you know, cause that bars the mathematical possibility that there is a better girlfriend in china... amidst the multibillions that live there]

and despite how well everything is going, i still often feel far from home, and long for my friends and family.

Bad Things About Me:

Sometimes i feel like these pages should be more balanced, so here goes. i'm cynical, ceaselessly vulgar , impatient, a dangerous workaholic , judgmental, pretentious enough to make known that i edited my own space without any pimp's help, hurtful , condescending, vain, a recovering emotional recluse, and [as if this wasn't already evident] i talk too much.

in lieu of quote, as an indicator of my current politico-spiritual leanings, please read the 'world house' essay by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., available everywhere on the internet.

My Interests

billiards, basketball, bowling, cooking, reading, [decent] movies, golf, plants, solar energy, the stock market as a reflection of reality, nanotechnology, stand up comedy, reading nytimes, nonfiction books, [fantasy books], good beer, good cheese, thanksgiving, home furnishings?, men's high fashion?, cleaning my bathroom?

I'd like to meet:

I'm supposed to be using this to meet people?

Music:

i guess i'll go in alphabetic order ... APC, Barrington Levy, Beach Boys, Beatles, Beck, Blonde Redhead, Bonobo, Bullfrog, Bjork, Busta, , Coheed & Cambria, D'Angelo, Dave Matthews, DJ Shadow, Doors, Dr. Dre, Fela Kuti, Fugees, Gang Starr, Ike Shaw, Jamiroquai, Jeff Buckley, Jefferson Airplane, Jehst, Joey Eppard, Kanye West, Kronos Quartet, Lake Trout, Led Zeppelin, Love, Ludacris, Maroon5, Mars Volta, Marvin Gaye, Matisyahu, The Meters, Micheal Jackson, Mike Patton, Miles Davis, Mr. Bungle, Notorious BIG, Outkast, Pink Floyd, The Police, Prince, Q-Tip, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Queen, Radiohead, Reality Check, Roots, Sade, MC Skibadee, Snoop Dogg, Splashdown, Subliminal Orphans, Squarepusher, Table Beat Science, Teknodrome, Thomas Mapfumo, Three, Timbaland, Tom Petty, Tonedeff, TOOL, TV On The Radio, U.N.K.L.E, Van Morrison, Weezer, Yoko Kanno & The Seatbelts, Youngbloods, Zap Mama

Movies:

the hustler, super troopers, american history x, american pimp, mr. death: fred leuchter, the corporation, pulp fiction, requiem for a dream

Television:

Deadwood [RIP], Carnivale [RIP], Rome, Sopranos [Last Season], Family Guy [should be put out of it's misery]

Books:

On Broken Wings [Gibran] The Wheel of Time [Jordan] Dune [Herbert] Wicked [Maguire] Shogun [Clavell] The Essential [Rumi / Barks] Le Morte D'Arthur [Malory] The 120 Days of Sodom [De Sade] Watership Down [Adams] Warrior of the Light: A Manual [Coehlo] A Song of Ice and Fire [Martin] Deep Survival [Gonzalez] Nourishing Traditions [Fallon] The Tipping Point [Gladwell] The General Theory of Love [Dr. Lewis, Dr. Amini, Dr. Lannon] Under the Banner of Heaven [Krakauer], The Long Emergency [Kunstler], Guns Germs and Steel [Diamond], The Singularity is Near [Kurzweil], Narcissus and Goldmund [Hesse], The Alchemsit [Coehlo], American Gods [Gaiman] The Botany of Desire [Pollan]

Currently:
The Satanic Verses [Rushdie]

Heroes:

Hanan Swiskay -- Loving father, doting husband, brilliant engineer and excellent man. CEO at the age of 21, successful stock market prospector, and a man of loyalty, righteousness, honesty, and compassion. He passed away June 22, 2006, at 10:25 in the morning, surrounded by his family.

My Blog

do people actually read these?

maybe i'm just another fevered ego, but i'm totally floored by how many 'profile views' i get in a day. what are you people even looking for? it isnt as if i change my profile every day, or add photos...
Posted by reed on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:43:00 PST

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Note to self: Remember to transfer all of my people from friendster to this, its much cooler. oh, and dump the body thats been sitting in my trunk for 2 weeks,
Posted by reed on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST