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About Me

Compassionate. Passionate. Creative. Bargain hunter. Music lover. Talker. Brother. Son. Friend. Cinnamon Toast Crunch fan. Dreamer. Writer. Pinot Noir drinker.Runner.Intelligent. Actor.Optimist. Mellow. Ramblin man. Nomadic. Creative. Genuine. Original.

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My Interests

Books, acting, music, in depth conversations. People, becoming a better person every day. Passion, to challenge myself. Learning, taking the good with the bad. Having goals and achieving them. To drink great wine, in Milan and Paris.To write something that makes people think. To earn respect with my actions. To make my friends and family proud. To love my friends and family. Being happy.
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I'd like to meet:

Those who have substance,depth, passion, a fire. People who laugh at everything including themselves. Pretty much anyone who is mostly awesome.

Music:

Ray Lamontagne.Coldplay. Damien Rice. John Mayer. Van Morrison.The Doors. Steve Miller. Snow Patrol. Alexi Murdoch. Citizen Cope. Bright Eyes. Radiohead. Ben Harper. Jack. Dave. Zeppelin when they play the blues. Nina Simone. Matt Wertz. Portishead. Frou Frou.Ryan Adams.Dylan. Sigur Ros. Counting Crows. Amos Lee.Red House Painters. Ben Lee. Mark Kozelek.The Fray. Jackie Greene. Ray Charles. Al Green. Ari Hest. Billy Joel. Bob Schneider. Matisyahu. Bob Marley. Cat Power. David Gray. Sublime. Jeff Buckley. Nick Drake. The Spill Canvas. Josh Ritter. Ben Taylor. Jimmy Buffett. Iron and Wine. Jose Gonzalez. Without Gravity. Kings of Convenience. "Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Movies:

Braveheart.Top Gun.Pulp Fiction.Shawshank Redemption.Stand By Me.A River runs through it.Cool Hand Luke. Snatch. Casablanca. Vanilla Sky. Anchorman. Dumb and Dumber. L.A. Confidential. Heat. Lord of the Rings. Notting Hill. Love Actually. Van Wilder. Ray. Thank You for Smoking. Mystic River.

Television:

Sportscenter. MTV2. The History channel. Inside the Actor's Studio. Planet Earth on Discovery Channel HD, it is amazing.

Books:

Walden. Leaves of Grass. Anything by Pablo Neruda. The Count of Monte Cristo. Notes from the Underground. A Moveable Feast. Empire Falls. Lady Chatterly's Lover. As I Lay Dying. James Patterson. A Staggering Work of Heartfelt Genius.

Heroes:

My parents. My friends. Anyone who aspires for greatness. Poets, Actors, Teachers, Athletes. If we can dream it, we can achieve it. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

My Blog

Still holds true today

JFK's inauguration speech, amazing how much weight it still holds. Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy...
Posted by paul on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 07:26:00 PST

Two Wolves

The Two Wolves One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside peopleHe said, "My son, the battle is between two "wolves" inside us allOne is Evil.It is anger, envy, j...
Posted by paul on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:40:00 PST

Self-Pity

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.DH Lawrence
Posted by paul on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:29:00 PST

cellar door

A cellar door is a door that allows entrance to a cellar. A widely repeated claim holds that the phrase cellar-door is the most beautiful word in the English language.Cellar door is a combination of w...
Posted by paul on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:51:00 PST

up late

It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that g...
Posted by paul on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:59:00 PST

If

IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not ...
Posted by paul on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:38:00 PST

Sonnet XVII

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,in secret, between the shadow and the soul.I love ...
Posted by paul on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:35:00 PST

Belief

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brillia...
Posted by paul on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 06:31:00 PST

advice for life

..>..>Get Drunk ..>..> Always be drunk.That's it!The great imperative!In order not to feelTime's horrid fardelbruise your shoulders,grinding you into the earth,Get drunk and stay that way.On what?On w...
Posted by paul on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:40:00 PST