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About Me

Hey there. Necessary comments after awhile of this: I would like to interact with people through this site, but please don't be offended if I don't get back to you if you want me to listen to your music. I also don't dig you advertising for yourself through comments "about me." Also, I wait a while to answer actual messages to see if your profile disappears. But if you love me because I'm beautiful and you want me to cash your out-of-country cashier's check, you probably don't have the English language skills to read this missive. Sigh. Me (real person):I am a sensible artist: a writer, poet, blues singer and guitarist. I am authentic, straight-forward, and tell-it-like-it-is. I enjoy the same of others, although I do appreciate social skills and common courtesies, especially kindness and consideration of others. I am funny, sweet, laid-back and generally utterly delightful, if you are. A super date would be horseback riding, target practice with a bow and arrow, or a tough hike, but I suppose meeting for coffee or a beer is a good interview.I have a great interest in history, sociology, languages and linguistics -- I'd definitely be an intellectual nerd if I was self-conscious and had small breasts. I'm sure it's fun to watch me get testy, but I've got a low tolerance for BS, and will not be trifled with. Since I have changed this text and added the stuff about my intellectual interests, I have not been contacted nor trifled with (except by musicians). Since I have already blown it, I will mention that I am taller than you unless you are 6'2" (I am six feet tall, but I also wear shoes).

My Interests

Blues, coffee/cigarettes and reading the paper, laughing, playing guitar with friends, converation, pleasure, sunshine

I'd like to meet:

Smart people...men for dates...anyone for hanging out, meeting for drinks, etc. Seattle women looking for laughs and intellectual conversations, please don't hesitate to write.I'd love to go hiking, play soccer or badminton in the park...I adore well-made documentaries (especially war documentaries -- I own the 26-episode 1980 World At War series), and I could be into starting a study group on something we're both interested in (learning a language? I could work on my crap German or my crap French, and/or begin Spanish, Arabic or Italian). If you're into drinking and bitching, sharing dinner or playing guitar (or all of that together), I'm down. Always up for a drink.You be cool, relaxed, kind, easy-going, funny and smart.

Music:

NOT INTO: (I said NOT INTO) The Greatful Dead, current country music, rap, hip hop, experimental jazz, reggae, gothic/industrial, late 80s bands (you know what I'm talking about), speed/death metal, anything new-age, or drum circles, mostly. If you really like these things, we probably won't get along. Everything else is OK. I admit I have heard rap and hip hop that I like, but I do not search it out. Oh, and though the dissonance of experimental jazz is said to have its own charm, I am not mature enough to enjoy it, like 95% of the population. I do love me my torch songs. I am really into old blues artists: Blind Willie Johnson, John Jackson, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Josh White, and Son House; 60s soul: Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Solomon Burke, James Carr, Aaron Neville, Chris Marlowe, Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett, Joe Tex, Bobby Moore, Jackie Wilson and Etta James; and then T Rex and the Stooges, Elvis, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Johnny Cash, George Harrison, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Tom Petty, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, The Clash, Adam Ant, XTC, Nick Drake, Iron & Wine, and Bob Log III, currently.

Movies:

Shawshank Redemption, West Side Story, 12 Monkeys, Groundhog Day, Waiting for Guffman, Joe Dirt, Office Space, The Fisher King, the Monty Python movies... I'll remember more...Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet

Television:

Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Reno 911. On this HBO kick, I would say Band of Brothers, Oz, Rome and Deadwood -- that last episode of season one was a masterpiece. Documentaries on PBS. I really enjoyed Kung Fu when I was young but I haven't seen it since. Did you know that story was Bruce Lee's idea -- then they chose a white guy to play the role? Damn shame.

Books:

I'm on another non-fiction kick let me get back to ya

Heroes:

Ivy Fox, Elvis, Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Parmahansa Yogananda, John Brown, Muhammed, Jesus, Gore Vidal, Harriet Tubman, Salahuddein, Diana Spencer, Blind Willie Johnson, (on that note) Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, Boudica, Alcibiates, the Pythons, George Orwell, Roald Dahl, Noam Chomsky, Shelby Foote, Charles Nelson Reilly, Roger Waters, John Lennon, Howard Zinn, Michael Moore, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, my mom and dad (MOST of the time), and anyone who fights the good fight and helps the less fortunate (or translates passion through art superbly).