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JR

La dolce vita!

About Me

I love food and I love to eat! I'll eat and watch the Food Network at the same time. I love being fit (thought I'm not always), working out and the outdoors which sometimes conflicts with my epicurean and viticulture hobbies (again, why I'm not always fit).
A perfect day for me would be a big breakfast with good coffee followed by a day outdoors hiking/at the beach or kayaking, wine-tasting, watching a movie under the stars (maybe projected onto a wall?) all with good friends, and my new hubby/old love.
Constantly evolving as a person, definitely opinionated but strive to keep an open/accepting frame of mind (though not always easy when I know I'm right dammit ;p)
Trying to live life to the fullest extent but I succumb to the lazies as well. Conscious of my goals and career path but also of my relationships that sustain, support, and challenge me and I try to be the same in return to those I care about.
Continually re-focusing and refining my politics and worldview. Scoping out possible homes, possible pets, latest shoes and handbags, travel spots...

My Interests

wine & wine tasting, cheese, coffee, cooking & food in general, frozen yogurt (so hard to find!) movies that are beautifully shot and offer a story-line w/real characters, jazz, good music, art, travel & travel books
yoga, NPR, shoes, perfume, the sun & outdoors, writing when inspiration strikes, poetry, authors who use words and language meaningfully
a picture well-taken, reading US Weekly for celebrity gossip, spending time with family, candles, design in the everyday, playing with my panda in the bamboo

I'd like to meet:

soulful, mellow, thinking laid-back people, fun, spontaneous, light-hearted, serious political people, nice, unique interesting people, people who love to eat and be outdoors and indoors for culture, talk etc.

Music:

Radiohead, Marvin Gaye, Pearl Jam, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Jeff Buckley, Maxwell, Prince, Nina Simone, Tori Amos
Norah Jones, Death Cab for Cutie/Postal Service, OutKast, Dead Prez, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Fort Minor
Shakira, Buena Vista Social Club, Gipsy Kings, The Cure, The Sundays, independent music found on NPR, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Rachmaninoff

Movies:

V for Vendetta; The Age of Innocence; Dumb & Dumber; Bram Stoker's Dracula (Coppola); Princess Bride; Heathers; Pride & Prejudice; Kung-Fu Hustle; Edward Scissorhands; Top Gun; Heat
Wong Kar Wai films- I love cinematography! especially: The English Patient, The New World

Television:

So You Think You Can Dance; Sex and the City; Food Network 24-7 especially Paula Deen, Barefoot Contessa, Rachael Ray $40 a day

Books:

Plato- Phaedo; poetry especially by Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke and versenp++; Kate Chopin- The Awakening; Song of Songs; Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre; Toni Morrison- Jazz

Heroes:

Anyone who follows their dreams however big or SMALL