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Rika!

Move-move-movin on!

About Me

Someone once gave the analogy that people are like jigsaw puzzles; You've got to appreciate how the pieces come together as a whole, to be able to appreciate the puzzle. If you get too caught up on the details of a single piece, you may never be able to to see how one fits with the other.So here I am, once again, trying to piece together the whole...

My Interests

Music, movies, animals, food, nature, architecture, furniture design, photography, power tools, new ideas, passionate people.

I'd like to meet:

Great people... Those who appreciate life and receive well what it brings.I have zero tolerance for fake, selfish, and ignorant people. If you have positive energy and pure motives, I will most probably like you.

Music:

Pet Shop Boys, Fisherspooner, Maximo Park, Elliot Smith, Mirah, Joy Division, Junior Boys, Architecture in Helsinki, The Dears, Bjork, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian...

Movies:

Dogville, Chungking Express, 2046, I Heart Hucklebees, Secretary, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Children of Heaven, Fight Club, Zato Ichi, Motorcycle Diaries, Office Space, Clerk, Edward Scissorhands, Pan's Labyrinth, The Departed, Emma, Great Expectations, Lost in Translation, all LotR's, My Architect, Moulin Rouge, Amelie, Royal Tennenbaums, Fantastic Planet, Irreversible, Howl's Moving Castle, Eternal Sunshine....

Television:

I don't really spend much time in front of the tv, but HGTV is sometimes good.I'm addicted to Heroes. Recently got turned on to Grey's Anatomy and House. I enjoy Project Runway if I can ever catch it. I will watch, but isn't religious about, American Idol.

Books:

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind, I just finished Book 6...I somehow got started on The Time Travelor's Wife. I didn't expect it to be any good at first, but then became ridiculously addicted to it.I am a Cat, Atlus Shrug, Fountainhead, The Celestine Prophecy

Heroes:

My mom, my brothers, Louis Kahn, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Hilary Clinton.