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Leila McRaven

Black bandana, sweet Louisiana.

About Me


I'm a Gemini with my moon in Taurus, born in the Year of the Dog. I'm loyal, compassionate, blatantly honest, and little bit deviant. I am an analytical thinker, psychologist, Buddhist, martial artist, published poet, polyglot, unabashed nerd, and world traveller.

I like comedy, classical literature, traditional Japanese tattoos, pistachio gelato, fine art, philosophy, Irish music, whiskey, and pin-up girls. I don't like drug addicts, willful ignorance, drama queens, the sound of biting one's fork, pathological liars, unmannered children, and people who can't spell.

My Interests

99th percentile, abstract thinking, aikido, ancient history, animal rights, archaeology, art, astrology, beauty, biopsychology, bisexuals, black comedy, bodhisattvas, body piercing, books, buddhism, bushido, caffeine, carpe diem, classical literature, coffee, comparitive religions, computers, dachshunds, dalai lama, dead languages, democratic socialism, deus ex machina, diabolical schemes, digital art, dogs, dreamscapes, eidetic memory, enlightenment, esoterica, europe, fire, foreign languages, freedom, geniuses, gnosticism, human rights campaign, iconoclasm, insomnia, intellectual intercourse, international studies, justice, koans, la petite morte, learning, linguistics, literature, logic, love, martial arts, meditation, memento mori, mensa, metaphysics, motorcycles, music, mythology, native america, neuroscience, new orleans, peace, philosophy, piercings, poetry, polyglots, post-modern bohemians, programming, qi, reading, redheads, renaissance paintings, samurai, science, shamanism, shinto, shotokan, socialism, spirituality, sushi, tattoos, tea, theatre, thought, traveling, truth, twins, video games, wine, wolves, world domination, writing, zen

I'd like to meet:


I collect books, bladed weapons, and redheads, but somehow manage to lose all three. I like meeting unique, brilliant, and revolutionary people of impressive intelligence, talent, and beauty. With that said, welcome to my world.

Music:

311, A Perfect Circle, Acid Bath, Aerosmith, Ani DiFranco, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Bob Marley, Calahan, Concrete Blonde, Damien Rice, Dan Reeder, Deadboy & the Elephantmen, Dead Kennedys, Doors, Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly, Flyleaf, Fly My Pretties, Hill of Beans, Interpol, Janis Joplin, Jenny Owen Youngs, Killers, Malvina Reynolds, Martin Creed, Metallica, Michael Franti, Mindless Self Indulgence, Misfits, Nine Inch Nails, New Orleans Bingo Show, New Pornographers, Noisician Coalition, NRBQ, Pixies, Poe, Portishead, Rasputina, Regina Spektor, Rock City Morgue, Rolling Stones, Shins, Social Distortion, Sons & Daughters, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Tool, Tori Amos, VNV Nation, White Zombie, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Movies:

a clockwork orange, amelie, american history x, boondock saints, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, eyes wide shut, exorcist, fight club, full metal jacket, gia, house of 1000 corpses, jackie brown, kill bill, lord of the rings, matrix, pi, poltergeist, pulp fiction, resevoir dogs, requiem for a dream, saw, shining, silence of the lambs, sin city, snatch, trainspotting, usual suspects, v for vendetta

Television:

absolutely fabulous, law & order svu, monty python's flying circus, osbournes, sex and the city, x-files

Books:

Aristophanes, Aristotle, Byron, Campbell, Crowley, Gaiman, Ginsberg, Goethe, Herodotus, Jordan, Joyce, Keats, King, Marx, Rice, Robbins, Russell, Sade, Sophocles, Tolkien, Voltaire, Vonnegut, Weir, Wilson

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Tenzin Gyatso

My Blog

LiveJournal

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Posted by Leila McRaven on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:38:00 PST