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mike

I am here for Friends

About Me

there's more on the fster dot com page||||||||||||||||||||||I live life like it's my last life to live. I've been told more than once that I defy categorizations. I am in no way the typical grad student. I like people. I like pets. I teach an undergraduate course in public speaking at University of ****** here in LA. I love my job. I have a bunch of other projects but they are way too involved to mention here. I'm in grad school for organizational studies… Graduated from UC Berkeley...lived in the Middle East and in the UK. I love the smell of Amaretto; It's in my top five. I tell people what I think. I like laughing at_______ . Nothing shocks me anymore --- I've seen way too much for that. I'm thankful for what I have. I can hang with just about anybody and find something positive in the experience. I am a very non-judgmental person until it's time to judge...

My Interests

experimentation, filmfilm, verylivemusic, sports, hanging w/ my best buddies, Kablistic knwldg of the Jewish kind, Flow, Tibetfreedom, Marzapan Bakery in the Shuk, ancient Jewish culture, yoga, sudarshan kriya, aimlessly walking manhattan, new cultures, laughing when I hear words thrown about with no definition in mind ("they say that..." Who are these "they" people? There is no "they"...), very nice vibes at very cool venues with excellent people, finding the best places to ____, real people, moment, consciousness, psychology that matters, those damn late-night chat shows, indoor rock-wall climbing, those moments when my game of pool is on fuego, etc.

I'd like to meet:

...those who don't take life too seriously BUT can get into the conversation intensely. People who can live in the moment. Those of us who tell it straight up...nearing brutal honesty, but back a shade. Artists with a capital A. The silliest people on the planet. Someone who doesn't even know what I could possibly be referring to when I say artists with a capital A, but maybe wants to know. People who live fully, and are insanely interested in so many damn things that they feel it with a capital F

Music:

Feathergun, Steel Pulse, Sugar Hill Gang, Ben Folds, Jellyfish, A-M Montade, Urge Overkill, Counting & Black Crows, Fastball, Squeeze, Grays, TomPetty, Weezer, Mozart, Aaron Razel, oldr stuff from-, Van Morrison, Cat Stevns, R.E.M., Louis Armstrng ECost

Movies:

6 Degrees of Separation, Waking Life, They Live, Wild in the Streets, Good Wil Hunting, The Game, My Dinner w/Andre, Rushmore, BH Cop, The Fugitive, Sneakers, Logan's Run, OficeSpace, Gattica, BeingJ Malkovich, documntriesthatbustthenormbystorm, LuxoJr

Books:

Brave New World, Nietzsche's%^*, Alan Watts's, Man's Search for Meaning by Frankl, Richard Sennett's, Song of Solomon, Decoding Advertisements, Yalom's, Solomon's, some of Aristotle's, Gardner's, Bukowski's