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Smith Is The Name.

She's built like a steakhouse, but she handles like a bistro.

About Me

Figuring out my role as a liaison and a provider. Trying to remain true to myself. Hoping the world can reach a level of religious collectivism during my lifetime. Only on here about once a week, so please excuse me if it takes awhile to respond.

My Interests

"The usual...bowling, driving around, the occasional acid flashback." (If you got that quote, make yourself a white russian and say, "Here's to me.") Personally, seeing new places, cultures, religions, finding how I perceive myself differently in different environments, and learning how I change in those environments. A search for something that feels natural to me. Being aware that in a search for myself, I am myself all the while. Which are basically the same as The Dude's interests.

I'd like to meet:

At this time, I would like to meet people who have volunteered or spent time in general overseas. But, meeting new people, in general, who use the word general alot is generally interesting.

Music:

((The Magnetic Fields))(((THE BETA BAND)))((The Jesus and Mary Chain))((The National))((Beastie Boys))((DJ Shadow))((XTC))(The Castanets))If I could have been in any band, it would have been ELO. (Doo-wop doo-be doo doo wop)

Movies:

((Jaws))((Seven Samurai))((Delicatessen))((The Ice Pirates))((Flash Gordon))((Sanjuro))((OldBoy))((Hero))(((Dr. Strangelove)))((The Big Lebowski))(((YOJIMBO)))

Books:

(((HERMANN HESSE)))((W. Somerset Maugham))((D.H. Lawrence))((Tenzin Gyatso))(((KOBO ABE)))((Franz Kafka))((Kahlil Gibran))((Vladimir Nabokov))

Heroes:

People who realize love and peace are the most important things in life.

My Blog

Franzs Wild West Tours

Judging by responses with question marks in them to my email "Franz's WildWest Tours", I thought I had better send a half-assed annotated version ofmy perspective on this piece of Franz Kafka's writin...
Posted by Smith Is The Name. on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:51:00 PST

Kahlil Gibran

Here is some of Kahlil Gibran's writing that I took note of because I saw the truth in it and the beauty of it, on a personal level. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths...
Posted by Smith Is The Name. on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 03:43:00 PST

We see as we are.

Something that influences my actions is the idea, "we see as we are." Often, negative traits that we recognize in others are traits that we possess ourselves. This is not the case all of the time, but...
Posted by Smith Is The Name. on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:39:00 PST