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Neil Lover

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About Me



Background from Google search result Well...I'm a social worker by profession, a social worker who longs to be a professional tree hugger. Sooooo...I'm going back to school to learn something about this. Gulp...sounds like a lot of science...I've discovered (much to my chagrin) that living in Cali is way too expensive for me to achieve this goal. Lately, I've also found myself missing my family...so I'll be moving to New York state on November 1st to pursue my dreams and reconnet with them.This makes me very very very very very very SAD because Long Beach California has been my home for the past 9 years. However, I see my path before me, and am compelled to follow it...
What is Your World View?
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You scored as Idealist

Idealism centers around the belief that we are moving towards something greater. An odd mix of evolutionist and spiritualist, you see the divine within ourselves, waiting to emerge over time. Many religious traditions express how the divine spirit lost its identity, thus creating our world of turmoil, but in time it will find itself and all things will again become one.


Idealist


100%

Cultural Creative


94%

Fundamentalist


56%

Existentialist


50%

Postmodernist


50%

Romanticist


50%

Materialist


6%

Modernist


0%

Background from Google search result

My Interests

Camping, backpacking, boogie boarding (ie; anything outdoors & FUN!); traveling and experiencing new people & places (I really really want to see the ancient Mayan pyramids of the Yucatan); indie films; venturing out to see live music or dance w/friends who aren't afraid to shake it (go Matador and Ness!!!); local neighborhood restaurants and diners; the Hollywood Bowl; chocolate; strong coffee; wearing my pj's; listening to good music; the way the air smells in the morning; road trips with my BFF Erin; antiquing w/mom; Bears/Cubs/Bulls games with my brother...

I'd like to meet:

fellow crazies to commune with on my journey, spiritual soul siblings...

Music:

Bruce Springsteen's first two albums especially Greetings from Ashbury Park, Uncle Tupelo, This Picture, Wilco, Scissor Sisters, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Bloc Party, James, Arcade Fire, Imogen Heap, Jay Farrar, Blondie, Paul Simon, The Sweet Hereafter soundtrack, Ani DiFranco (my rockstar girlfriend), Interpol, Poi Dog Pondering, Billie Holiday, Queen, The Garden State Soundtrack, Beth Orton, Michelle Shocked, New Order, Elefant, Tracy Chapman, Sarah McLaughlin, Tears for Fears, Cold Play, Nirvana, Neil Diamond, G&R, The Twin Peaks soundtrack, Moby (my rockstar boyfriend)...and JOURNEY (oooh yeah)...

Movies:

Transamerica, Nacho Libre, Broke Back Mountain, Leaving Los Vegas, any and every Cohen Bros. film, Sling Blade, The Princess Bride, Garden State, Donnie Darko, Office Space, Blue Velvet, The Matrix Trilogy, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Wayne's World, 40 Year Old Virgin, Cable Guy, Less Than Zero, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves (go Lars Van Trier!), Boys Don't Cry, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Space Balls...there are so many.

Television:

Boston Legal, The Office, CSI Los Vegas, House, Arrested Development (taken off the air too soon), Twin Peaks (fond memories only), The Family Guy, Seinfeld (has there ever been a better TV show?), X Files (sigh, Fox Moulder was so dreamy)...

Books:

Currently The Mysts of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, LOVED it.

Heroes:

My mom who embodies beauty, compassion, and kindness; my grandmother who could laugh anytime, anywhere, anyplace; my best friend the erwinator who teaches me something new everytime I talk to her; my favorite ex-boss at the Village (you know who you are) for his "fight the status quo" and "question everything" philosphy; my brother Jody whose ability to trancend hardship borders on the miraculous...