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Alex

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I love to travel...In 1999, I was an exchange student in Skanderborg, Danmark. I've travelled extensively in Europe, and I spent a month in France (Paris, Alsace, and Haute-Savoie) this April. It was amazing! I also really enjoy hiking, and spending time outside in the beautiful world we live in.... I have an open mind, and not just when it comes to similarly-minded liberal types.

My Interests

Hiking, Skiing, Reading, thinking, talking, driving, flying, and others...

I'd like to meet:

Someone who is serious enough to appreciate nuance, but still have a somewhat strange, quirky, silly, and/or otherwise atypical sense of humor. Someone straightforward enough to not be a drama queen, and who realizes the utter idiocy of mind-games. If you can appreciate someone who has an eclectic musicical taste, appreciates small things, enjoys a good glass of wine and some great conversation, then I'd love to hear from you. We'd probably get along. I'd like to meet people who aren't afraid to use their minds, and think for themselves. I lead a far more balanced life than your typical twentysomething guy, but I do still love and enjoy having fun and living in the moment. Still, committment does not frighten me at all.

Music:

Everything. And I do mean everything, not "everything in the one genre I happen to like"... including Classical. Air, Bjork, The Clash, Depeche Mode, Emilianna Torini, Gary Numan, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Nelly Furtado, Postal Service, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, and many many others.

Movies:

Sneakers. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. Napoleon Dynamite. The Fifth Element. L.A Confidential. The Princess & The Warrior, Lola Rennt (AKA Run Lola Run in the USA), The Big Lebowski, The Others, Shadow of the Vampire, Leon (AKA The Professional in the USA, but the American edit sucks), Rush Hour, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The Hudsucker Proxy. Contact. Ronin. Brazil. The Vanishing. Traffic. Did I mention Sneakers? ;-) A host of others, as well, these titles are simply a very small and not necessarily representative portion of what I appreciate.

Television:

Good Eats (Alton Brown is awesome!), Family Guy, House M.D., The Daily Show, The Colbert Report.

Books:

Collapse by Jared Diamond, The Janson Directive & The Tristan Betrayal by Robert Ludlum, The Supreme Court by William Rehnquist, Ender's Game/Shadow by Orson Scott Card, West of Kabul, East of New York, by Tamim Ansary, American Autobahn by Mark Rask, Ishi - In Two Worlds, "One People, Two worlds", American Gods, Neverwhere, and Stardust by Neil Gaiman.

Heroes:

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. Seriously. Those motherfuckers had their heads screwed on proper-like.