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Ian

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

1. I was born in columbus, ohio2. I was an accident, but my mom assures me, (imagine your best mom voice) "honey, you were a little miracle"3. I don't notice the passage of time so much. I want to be the sort of person who's shocked to have made it to old age.4. i'm self conscious of the way i look in the morning. I don't usually make eye contact with myself in the mirror until after i've showered...5. I love working out. It's an amazing stress reliever for me...6. I went to art school for graphic design.7. I wish sometimes that i'd chosen a career that depended more on my body. I get tired of sitting all day...i feel like a jackass when i get "mousing hand cramps"...8. I want to teach people how to scuba dive. I think everyone should do it.9. I won't surf. Now that i know what's going on underwater, it makes me a little uncomfortable.10. I have one younger brother...He makes me feel like a parent...11. I like exquisite corpse parties...12. my mom forced me to join a ballroom dancing class at the age of 15.13. she lured me into it because she said my incipient partner was cute. I thought she was lying. she wasn't.14. I love motorcycles.15. I'm not interested listening to people who want to guilt me out of riding motorcycles with statistical talk of accidents.16. i like taking pictures with my old pentax.17. I think I take good pictures...and my camera's always on manual...18. I collect "things" when i'm on vacation & I put those "things" in scrap books, and i paint on them.19. I love languages. i'd speak 17 if I could...20. I'm taking spanish classes.21. I'm nervous to speak spanish in front of my friends22. If someone asks me if I'm fluent i say "I don't speak spanish fluently, but i can communicate well."23. I love animals. which is lucky, because my dad's a veterinarian.24. i'm introverted at heart. at least that's what my mom says. she's a therapist25. I love cats. I have two. Danny boy and Jeremy. they turned 5 this year. I keep telling them, they'll be around when i'm 40.26. I can't wait until they outlaw cigarette smoking in the bars here in chicago.27. i think music sounds the best in a car.28. if i don't stop now this could get boring.

My Interests

spanish classes - eating out on fridays - exercising while watching movies - motorcycles - good design - scuba diving - chocolate - reading while eating cereal - etc...

I'd like to meet:

a little consistency please...

Music:

tom waits - andrew bird - spoon - sloan - phoenix - rufus wainwright - tribeca - ted leo - the starlight mints - pedro the lion - radiohead - over the rhine - madvillain - the olympic hopefuls - islands - loveninjas - daft punk - the hold steady - elvis presley - the killers - koufax - soul coughing - metric - tycho - pharcyde - possum dixon - the octopus project - queen - rogue wave - sondre lerche - weezer - k-os - athlete - the redwalls - bettie serveert - blur - the magnetic fields - ratatat - stray cats - the streets - the weakerthans - etc...

Movies:

pedro almodóvar - alejandro gonzales inarritu - danny boyle - sophia coppola - alfonso cuarón - christopher nolan - guillermo del toro - wes anderson

Books:

disgrace - east of eden - the blind assassin - misery - abriendo puertas - the magus - the interpreter of maladies

Heroes:

tibor kalman, tom waits, lindford & karin bergquist (detweiler), evan dorkin, brit daniel, etc...