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BIG AL

I don't know you, but I love you

About Me

I am a 34 year old single Libra male. I love lots of good people I am fortunate to have in my life. I love nature, being a goofball, kisses, hugs, friends, family, and knowing I made a difference in someone's life. I accept people very easily and I hate lies, even to one's own self... If you don't like honest people, then you will not like me at all! I am writing a novel about my three months backpacking in Europe and I play drums in the band Peace Warrior. I had a really rough beginning to 2006, but the universe has shown me copious amounts of love as of late, thanks for my blessings (may my friends and family receive good fortune as well)! I enjoy laughing, moving new places, starting businesses, festivals, hiking, backpacking, travelling, and surfing. I work for Whole Foods Market in Santa Rosa, California and as a landscape architect for Balcerak Design. I am 3 years old on the west coast... I have lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Indiana, Maine, North Carolina, and now Cali. I stay in touch with lots of folks, but I always enjoy meeting new ones.

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My Interests

Drums, playing live music, kissing, love, sex, laughing, hiking, backpacking, camping, travelling, adrenaline rushes, surfing, skiing, festivals, and starting businesses. (There aren't many things I won't try out at least once)

I'd like to meet:

Exciting, fun, creative, interesting, adventurous, and energetic free spirits. I like people that don't conform to the norms of society...

Music:

South, Doves, Spacehog, Beatles, Police, Particle, Ride, Super Furry Animals, Spearhead, grey, Led Zep, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, the Who, Parliament Funkadelic, Ben Harper, Les Claypool's various projects, Phish, my band Peace Warrior, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Al Green, Maceo Parker, Pink Floyd, Kula Shaker, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Van Morrison, Belle and Sebastian, Tenacious D, Violent Femmes, Morphine, Common, Deltron, Roots, Kanye, Outkast, Peanut Butter Wolf, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Dandy Warhols, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Blockhead, Poets of Rythym, jazz drummers Art Blakey, Max Roach, Billy Cobham, Gene Krupa, Tony Williams, pretty, weird, orgasmic, seismic, catacylismic, it don't matter, if it moves me I'll play it...

Movies:

Dazed and Confused, Office Space, Garden State, South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Amelie, Beautiful Mind, Tao of Steve, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, High Fidelity, School of Rock, Lord of the Rings, Breakin and Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo, Run Ronnie Run, Empire Strikes Back, Ace Ventura Pet Detective, Dumb and Dumber, Shawshank Redemption, Igby Goes Down, Napoleon Dynamite, Spinal Tap, Red Dawn, Moulin Rouge, Half Baked, Waking Ned Devine, Thumbsucker, Snatch, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Team America, documentaries (Grizzly Man, Born into Brothels, Real Dirt on Famer John, Gunner Palace, the Corporation, etc...), I like funny, inspiring, educational, and interesting, all four together is magic.

Television:

I haven't watched TV in years, don't even know what's on now... I do miss Red Dwarf and Northern Exposure though....

Books:

I like reading anything because I believe in expanding your horizons by taking other's points of view into account, but I have enjoyed the works of Vonnegut, Bryson, Hiaasen, Leonard, Sedaris, Orwell, Maguire, King, Steinbeck, Grisham, Eliot, and countless others...

Heroes:

Anyone who has the guts and will to stand up for what they believe in, even if they are wrong, those that selflessly help others for no personal gain, and people who work their way up from nothing...

My Blog

End of the year blog, yes Craig no more crying for you!

Hello everyone! Well, it has been some time since I have sat down at a keyboard and pounded out some musings on life, updated what's going on with yours' truly, or expounded on any number of topics ra...
Posted by BIG AL on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 10:35:00 PST

Some shit coming up

Hey everybody! Well, I am home sick with the flu and bronchitis... Aargh, but otherwise feeling great. I have been busy planning shit coming up (yeah, there's something new!) and thought I would exten...
Posted by BIG AL on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

Home, Coachella, summer

Hello everybody! Well, the prodigal son has returned safe and sound to California. What an excursion three months abroad was... I miss life on the road to be honest, there is something extremely satis...
Posted by BIG AL on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:04:00 PST

Final blog

OK, here it is my final blog from Europe. I head home on Tuesday and I am ready for some hugs, kisses, and love. I have missed my friends terribly on this trip, but what an experience! Here is a sampl...
Posted by BIG AL on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:40:00 PST

Greece, pillow pack international, and ready

Okie dokie smokies! Big Al here again... Whew, what a trip this has been. It is 2007 and this has been a great way to kick off the year. The "Pillow Pack" truly went international as Molly and Geoff j...
Posted by BIG AL on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:38:00 PST

Travel mishaps, Christmas, triumph of spirit

Hello everybody! I have had 1,047 views of my blogs thus far and I am so excited and honored that people are so supportive and it makes me really feel like I can make this book happen! Well I am safe ...
Posted by BIG AL on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:38:00 PST

Emily and Acceptance, Vienna, Budapest, Switzerland and French Riviera

Hello all, well here's hoping all your holiday planning is going smoothly. It is wild to see all the holiday preparations in each of the places I visit. I have seen more Christmas Markets than one gro...
Posted by BIG AL on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:51:00 PST

Vienna, the castles, Berlin, etc...

Well I realize I am falling way behind in my writing on-line and it builds up some suspense for the book as well.... so I will give some quick bulletins. I have been through 6 countries now and each o...
Posted by BIG AL on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:35:00 PST

Attacked in Amsterdam!

Hey everyone,I just want you to all know I am doing fine. I am a bit shaken up, I had my wallet, jacket, and one glove stolen. I went to a dance club last night and after a great night, including maki...
Posted by BIG AL on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

Retirement home, Emily dreams, everyday living

OK folks, back to the lecture at hand. When last I left off I had drunken myself into a stupor and paid for it. I was glad to awaken the next morning free from a hangover and ready to set out towards ...
Posted by BIG AL on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:15:00 PST