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planty

I am here for Friends

About Me

Been described as: intense, complex, sensitive, and unpredictable.
Describe myself as: curious, easily amused, and a little absent minded.
I am rarely bored. I think anything examined closely enough will reveal something fascinating, with the possible exception of baseball.

My Interests

Compassion, laughing, deconstructionism, making music, knowledge, dancing, Chinese, history, biology, news, eating plants, politics, "experiments", perspectivism, Wu Tai Chi, tea, photography, mass transit, cats, meditation, Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
Taoism.

I'd like to meet:

"True dialogue... is a questioning of each other and it never leaves us where we were before, either in respect of our understanding of the other or of ourselves." - J. L. Mehta

Music:

If it's in a minor key, I will probably like it: Bach, Arvo Part, 16 Hp, Noir Desir, Tea Party, Vivaldi, VAST, Billie Holliday, Altai Hangai, Buena Vista Social Club, Fugazi, Orff, Gogol Bordello, Mozart, Tool, Louis Armstrong, Paris Combo, Black Star, Stravinsky, Natacha Atlas, breaking glass, Cop Shoot Cop, excessive bassoons,
Weird Nightmare.

Movies:

Spirited Away, Fifth Element, Star Wars, Gorky Park.

Books:

The Art of Happiness, Bloom County, Euripedes, Siddartha, Chuang Tzu, Holy Terrors, Alice Miller, Holzman's Ruan Ji, The Last Dance, Calvin and Hobbes, Te Tao Ching (Henricks), Mo Tzu, The Path to Love, Sophocles, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Gardener, A Bright Red Scream, Zadig.

Heroes:

Useless Trees, Cook Ting, Ruan Ji, Hsi Kang, Pinky and the Brain, Gorby, anyone who practices nonviolence.