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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Italian, Spanish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Student, Teacher, Nomad
  • UB, NYU, VT
  • From Syracuse, NY
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

On the way to Somewhere

ABOUT ME

I'm having a picnic in the Industrial Park (the view from the slag heap is spectacular)

PHILOSOPHY

In the process of de-cluttering my mind. . . having more empty space up there allows the winds to whip around a bit more & make little dirt-devil trash tornadoes that eventually reconstitute all the obsolete ways of thinking & being, into all kinds of amalgamations of fantasticalness

Interests

Having illuminating & spontaneous interactions with other people, nomadic existence, yoga, meditation, Buddhism, architecture, art, camping, drawing, converting cars to run off veg oil, wandering the streets, thinking, eating (eating actual food- not the corporate food-product stuff), welding together strange creations, woodworking, traveling, reading (alot), DIY living, growing food, rail transit, metaphysics.

  • arts
  • architecture
  • diy
  • dining
  • picnic
  • yoga
  • running
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • cars
  • drawing
  • woodworking
  • camping
  • buddhist
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Books:

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, The Cosmic Serpent, Lipstick Traces, Confessions of a Disloyal European, Wherever you go -there you are, the air conditioned nightmare, the monkey wrench gang, the geography of nowhere, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, Another Roadside Attraction, A People's History, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Wanderlust, the Book of Learning and Forgetting, A Confederacy of Dunces, Steal this Book, Standing at Armageddon, Everything is Illuminated, the Botany of Desire, the Idiot, Autobiography of a Yogi, What makes you not a Buddhist, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, The Tibetan Yogas of Sleep and Dream, Coney Island of the Mind

Favorite Movies:

Walkabout, Don't Look Back, Being There, Chinatown, 12 Monkeys, Full Metal Jacket, SLC Punk, Hot Rod, Royal Tenenbaums, Idiocracy, I Heart Huckabees, Modern Times.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spent 6 months meditating in the Mountains, Climbed a Volcano,

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Nepal, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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