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Overview

  • 7 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • i act and model. and wait tables. and dig people and pl...
  • i'm a student of the human condition. and i went to usc.
  • From princeton, new jersey
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

my motto as i live and learn is: dig, and be dug in return

ABOUT ME

i like to live life and i love to meet crazy travelers and share part of this life. as far as i'm concerned, life is all about experiences, good or bad, they're all positive as long as you learn from it. this crazy city of los angeles has no soul, not to mention angels, but its a hell of a good time.

PHILOSOPHY

a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
handcuffs will get soft and billyclubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow.
you ARE home.
i felt free and therefore i was free.
to be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best night and day to make you everybody else is to fight hardest battle anyone can fight and never stop fighting.

Interests

summer, the sixties, the seventies, peace truth love beauty, art (ars longa vita brevis...the est?), ee cummings, kerouac, burroughs, acting, humanity, the evolution of humanity, all things in moderation especially moderation, theatre, film, good times, mad souls, bonnaroo, nyc, la, sf, john lennon, dave eggers, hunter s. thompson, ernesto che guevara, states of conciousness, friends, late nites, road trips, uncalled for rooftop sunrises, that one last drink, parties of all shapes and sizes as long as they're stocked with good people. as far as i know, i don't hate anything except hate.

  • arts
  • acting
  • beauty
  • partying
  • drinking
  • hunting
  • road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS and PLAYS: on the road, lonesome traveler, naked lunch, cities of the red nite, the enormous room, him, eimi, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, you shall know our velocity, catch-22, the tooth of crime, the fifth of july, fear and loathing in las vegas, the electric kool-aid acid test, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the celestine prophecy, the sirens of titan. MOVIES: blow, fear and loathing in las vegas, there will be blood, almost famous, waking life, requiem for a dream, across the universe, noises off. MUSIC: radiohead, the faint, dispatch, jack johnson, rage against the machine, rise against, against me, state radio, the strokes, the hives, rx bandits, bad religion, the lawrence arms, bob dylan, the doors, the beatles, janis joplin, jimi hendrix, ani difranco, sublime, simon and garfunkel, the velvet underground.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

i stayed in a bungalow in a croatian national park with one of my greatest friends and got hammered late into the night with some shy and hilarious and friendly poles whom i will never forget.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Germany, Gibraltar, Grenada, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Laos, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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