CURRENT MISSION

To expand and better my understaing of the world, myself, and others.

ABOUT ME

I work at a small Interior Design company in SOMA. I rent a small in-law on the border of Bernal Heights and the Mission. I do yoga & pilates, and meditate regularly. I love oil painting and figure drawing. I'm more into art, music, history, games, nature & conversation than clubs, bars, & sports, but I'm open to trying most anything.

PHILOSOPHY

Only change is permanent, and you should always face the truth in spite of fear.

The only person you can change is yourself.

Interests

animals, answers, anthropology, art, baking, balance, books, bowling, carving, challenges, chess, chocolate, conversation, cooking, culture, dancing, discovery, drawing, dreaming, emotions, entertainment, ethnic-food, evolution, exercise, exploration, expression, film, flying, freedom, fun, history, honesty, humans, imagery, japan, kissing, knowledge, latin, laughing, life, listening, logic, music, myself, mysteries, nascence, nature, observing, omniscience, order, organization, painting, passion, people, phenomenons, philosophy, photography, pilates, places, plants, play, psychology, questions, quintessence, reading, release, revolution, roller-coasters, roulette, science fiction, scultpting, self awareness, sex, sleeping, sobriety, survival, sushi, thinking, tolstoy, travel, truth, understanding, vagrancy, vindication, volunteering, walking, water, writing, yearning, yoga, zenith, zingers, zoology

• animals
• arts
• culture
• writing
• books
• design
• interior design
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• baking
• exercise
• yoga
• pilates
• meditation
• walking
• clubbing
• flying
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• survival
• music
• sports
• bowling
• anthropology
• history
• law
• logic
• psychology
• science
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

12 monkeys, 2001, clockwork orange (anything kubrick), alien, blade runner, abyss, matrix, gattaca, open your eyes, brazil, butch cassidy/sundance kid, mc cabe and ms miller, unforgiven, le fem nikitta, professional, fight club, indiana jones, labrinth, legend, dark crystal, wizards, waiting for guffman, bad santa, anything wes anderson, some paul t. anderson, monty python, spike jonze, micheal gondry, some mel brooks, coen brothers, last tango in paris, anything fellini (nights of cabria fav.), coppola, most scorsese, most tim burton, lynch, cool hand luke, one flew over the cuckoos nest, gone with the wind, amelie, exorsist, jacob's ladder, a woman is a woman, umbrellas of cherbourgh, orson wells, pixar, hitchcock, ghost world, documentaries, kurosawa, Bergman, primal fear

most recently: 'revolutionary road' and 'rachel getting married'

MUSIC

Beatles, Floyd, Zeppelin, Stones, Blondie, Bowie, Nick Drake, Depechmode, Radiohead, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Lennon, Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, Leonard Coen, Cat Stevens, Sufjan Stevens, Broadcast, Dungen, Rage Against the Machine, Beethoven, Doors, Cake, Weezer, Tool, Tom Waits, Portishead, Talking Heads, Franz Ferdinand, Massive Attack, Pixies, OMD, classical, compilation albums and various movie soundtracks.

BOOKS

tolstoy, kafka, hesse, tolkien, ellis, salinger, palahniuk, takaki, heinlein, stephen r. donaldson, camus, J.H robinson, orwell, wharton, homer, emerson, whitman, thoreau. a lot of non-fiction, psychology, and history.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The birth of my niece, Moira, is the most amazing thing I've seen yet.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to play chess and give you tips on enhancing the apperance of your living space.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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