CURRENT MISSION

currently doing reconaissance (and some renaissance) for the revolution.

ABOUT ME

a guy livin' in toronto.

PHILOSOPHY

most of the choices in my life come down to actually one choice: whether i willing to be intensely present or comfortably absent in my own life.

Interests

activism, dancing, sexual fluidity, exploring, language, history, vegetarianism, anti-racism, feminism, anarchism, adventure, cooking, social justice, being, board games, video games, yoga, prague, coffee, being a geek, post-modernism
and anything that makes me curious.....

• dancing
• womens rights
• cooking
• coffee
• yoga
• video games
• board games
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

WORD: anne carson, haruki murakami, bell hooks, emma goldman, milan kundera, philip k dick, greg egan, audre lorde, paul monette, toni morrison, sky lee, daphne marlatt, neil gaiman, asimov, wanda coleman, wilde, angela davis, ethel wilson, michael ondaatje

FILM: Wong Kar-Wai, Almodovar, Julie Taymor, David Lynch, Gregg Araki, Bruce Campbell, Michael Moore, Atom Egoyan, David Cronenberg, sometimes Spike Lee & Ridley Scott, Paris is Burning, Lawrence of Arabia, Bleu, Blanc, Rouge, Elephant, Harold & Maude

SOUND: magnetic fields, the weakerthans, low, nina simone, tori amos, kings of convenience, broken social scene, saint etienne, dusty springfield, love, david bowie, stevie wonder, elliot smith, dixie chicks, tv on the radio, feist, Prince, 6ths, gentleman reg, arcade fire, kathleen edwards, amy winehouse, low, saturday looks good to me, ohbijou!, kate bush, grateful dead, jamie t, blonde redhead, Kids on TV, trentmoeller, final fantasy, m.i.a., creature, friends in Bellwoods, the ting tings, the dresden dolls, amanda palmer, queen, pheonix, MGMT, joy division, asobi seksu, broadcast, yelle, ladytron, john martyn, eugene macguiness

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

after a 4 year relationship with a fairly remote village in West Afrika, they re-named me through their traditional birthing ceremony to symbolize that i was now a part of their community.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, Mali, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Senegal, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Czech Republic

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