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Overview

  • 7 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Student
  • I am currently an undergraduate student of History and Re...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

The world is a strange place. Don't take it for granted for a second or you will miss the point.

PHILOSOPHY

I really don't know what I could write here. Just ask me, I think I could explain better in person.

Interests

Rock climbing, drinking, listening to good music, harmonica, guitar, backpacking, reading, writing, traveling, good friends, meeting strange and interesting people, rugby, religious philosophy, history

  • writing
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • backpacking
  • rock climbing
  • rugby
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

On the Road, The Dharma Bums, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Sun Also Rises, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Crime and Punishment, The Bhagavad Gita, Paradise Lost, The Iliad, The Oddysey, The Aeneid, The Oresteia, anything about lucid dreaming (Lebarge, Garfield etc,), Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Baudelaire, Ezra Pound, William Blake, Edgar Allan Poe...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I just recently hitchhiked from Santa Cruz to Oregon. (Incidentally where I heard about this website) Humboldt county is a a crazy place.

Countries I’ve Visited

Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States

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