Me chiamo Ileana, io sono un po infantile, molto romantica e mi piace la semplicità e la buona gente.

I'm shy and weird but very friendly. I'm extremely adventurous. I am forever in love with nature and the Moon. I love the ocean (actually, love water in general...pools too, I love swimming). I love science. I love the universe. I'm currently a Psychology/Criminal Justice student (I'm working to be a Substance Abuse Counselor {Master in Health Sciences} and hopefully work with homeless addicts, I already volunteer when I can.

I like dancing even though I'm not very good at it.
I'm a hopeless romantic.

I'm nocturnal. I'm a tomboy.

I have a liking for firearms, the bigger the better (that's not a metaphor for something else), and love blowing things up and making noise when possible (New Year's is usually when I let loose with this).
I'm an autodidact and have been a bibliophile ever since I can remember.
I love to laugh hysterically.
I can be very girly sometimes and other times I can completely be one of the guys. I don't mind getting dirty, playing football in the mud, getting physically hurt, breaking a nail (lol)...I like to have fun and being a lady should never get in the way of that. "You cannot banish joy for that is the road to madness."
I don't give a rat's ass about what people I don't know/love think about me.

I am attracted to all things dark, macabre and mysterious, and anything odd and considered 'abnormal' or preternatural fascinates me. I like the 'supernatural'.
I gravitate towards outsiders (because I am one), misfits and the socially marginalized and excluded. I'm the kind of person that will sit down with the homeless and talk to them, I can't and will not ignore them. Contrary to popular belief, the average junkie on the street is not a menace to society. I've met some that I believe were brilliant and others that were extremely kind (but of course, there are seriously dangerous people out there too, but the panhandler down the corner is probably not one of them so treat them kindly, they're human and you never know...you could end up homeless one day too).

I'm very bad-mouthed but I know when and where to be serious and 'sophisticated' or just quiet.

I can't stand injustice and abuse.
I'm all for social justice and am very interested in something called Socially Engaged Buddhism.
I love meditating and doing yoga.

*I HAVE THE BAD HABIT OF GOING ONLINE AND LEAVING WINDOWS OPEN WITHOUT LOGGING OUT ALL THE TIME so if you message me and I don't answer even if it says I'm online, don't despair. I'm probably not online but will be eventually and I'll get back to you.

Not much, traveling and studying mostly. Really, just doing whatever I want.

Analyzing things and listening to people, apparently. I always have complete strangers coming over to me and literally pouring their hearts out for no reason at all...I guess I inspire trust. This is great for me because I make friends easily like that, usually without saying a word, and I get to hear all kinds of crazy and amazing shit you wouldn't find in the best books.

I'm genuinely interested in them? Overly nice?
My tattoos? My hats?

Books: (Too many...I am a bibliophile!)
Poetry especially Charles Baudelaire, Emily Dickinson, Charles Bukowski, Arthur Rimbaud, Pablo Neruda, Benedetti, Frost, Jaime Sabines, Kerouac, Ginsberg and Edgar Allan Poe,
The Little White Bird (J. M. Barrie),
The Will ( J.M. Barrie),
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie),
Matilda (Roald Dahl),
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery),
The Brave (Gregory McDonald),
Fletch (Gregory McDonald),
Souvenirs of a Blown World: Sketches from the Sixties (Gregory McDonald),
Running Scared (Gregory McDonald),
Hamlet (Shakespeare),
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare),
Confieso que he vivido (Neruda),
The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley),
Heaven and Hell (Aldous Huxley),
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley),
The Rum Diary (Hunter S. Thompson),
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson),
Hell's Angels (Hunter S. Thompson),
Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs),
Junkie (William S. Burroughs),
The Cat Inside (William S. Burroughs),
On The Road (Jack Kerouac),
Doctor Sax (Jack Kerouac),
Big Sur (Jack Kerouac),
Howl (Allen Ginsberg),
Manufacturing Consent (Noam Chomsky),
Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol),
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner (Samuel Coleridge),
Just Kids (Patti Smith),
El Burlador de Sevilla (Tirso de Molina),
Post Office (Charles Bukowski),
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl),
Escape From Freedom (Erich Fromm),
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (Peter Hedges),
A Little Princess (Frances Hudgson Burnett),
The Secret Garden (Frances Hudgson Burnett),
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut),
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater (Kurt Vonnegut),
Slaughterhouse-five (Kurt Vonnegut),
Armageddon In Retrospect (Kurt Vonnegut),
The Book of Lost Things (John Connoly),
Nocturnes (John Connoly),
Good Omens (Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett),
A Season in Hell (Arthur Rimbaud),
La Metamorfosis (Franz Kafka),
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde),
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis),
The Hound of The Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle),
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe),
My Booky Wook (Russell Brand),
Booky Wook 2 (Russell Brand),
I Am Legend (Richard Matheson),
La misteriosa fiamma della regina Loana (Umberto Eco),
Memoria de mis putas tristes (Gabriel García Marquez),
El maestro de Esgrima (The Fencing Master) (Arturo Pérez-Reverte),
El Club Dumas (Arturo Pérez-Reverte),
House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski),
The Whalestoe Letters (Mark Z. Danielewski),
Only Revolutions (Mark Z. Danielewski),
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (H.P. Lovecraft),
Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained (John Milton),
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (William Blake),
His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman),
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie),
The Varieties of Scientific Experience (Carl Sagan),
The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time (Mark Haddon),
Look Me in the Eye (John Elder Robison),
Thinking In Pictures (Temple Grandin),
Lullaby (Chuck Palahniuk),
Invisible Monsters (Chuck Palahniuk),
Running With Scissors (Augusten Burroughs),
Magical Thinking (Augusten Burroughs),
Dry (Augusten Burroughs),
Possible Side Effects (Augusten Burroughs),
Veronika Decide Morir (Paulo Coelho),
The Historian (Elizabeth Kostova),
Go Ask Ogre (Jolene Siana),
Go Ask Alice (Anonymous),
The Silent Boy (Lois Lowry)
Into The Wild (Jon Krakauer),
The Call of The Wild (Jack London),
Son of the Wolf (Jack London),
Touching From a Distance (Deborah Curtis),
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens),
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain),
The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells),
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving),
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson),
The Last of The Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper),
Animal Farm (George Orwell),
1984 (George Orwell),
The Diary of Ann Frank,
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury),
Animal Rights and Human Morality (Bernard E. Rollin),
Animal Liberation (Peter Singer),
Diet for a Dead Planet (Christopher D. Cook),
Diet for a New America (John Robins).

Movies, too many as well:
Arizona Dream,
The Brave,
Howl,
Chaplin,
Into The Wild,
The Rum Diary,
Midnight in Paris,
The Breakfast Club,
The Pick-up Artist,
Buffalo 66,
James and the Giant Peach,
The Soloist,
Drive,
Modern Times,
Sherlock Jr.
The Man Who Cried,
Half Nelson,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,
Only You,
Dead Man,
Blue Valentine,
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus,
Dracula,
The Science of Sleep,
Adam,
Finding Neverland,
Rango,
Control,
August Rush,
Temple Grandin,
You Don't Know Jack,
The Tree of Life,
Gadjo Dilo,
Hesher,
The Phisher King,
L.A. Without a Map,
Running Scared,
Arthur,
The Tempest,
Mr. Nobody,
Fear and Loathing...,
The Lookout...etc.

I enjoy watching Whose Line is It Anyway?, Law and Order: S.V.U., Dexter, In Treatment, House and Being Human (UK)...among others.

Music, way too many but some favorites include:
Chet Baker,
Eros Ramazzotti,
Steely Dan,
Rubén Blades,
Van Morrison,
Morrissey/The Smiths,
Dion and The Belmonts,
Poe,
Patti Smith,
The Gits,
Creedence Clearwater Revival,
The Doobie Brothers,
Janis Joplin,
Frank Sinatra,
Cat Stevens,
Iggy and The Stooges,
Bob Dylan,
AFI,
Rancid,
VNV Nation,
Apoptygma Berzerk,
Draco Rosa,
Vanessa Paradis,
The Pixies,
Jeff Buckley,
Elliott Smith,
Serge Gainsbourg,
Ours,
Jimmy Gnecco,
Robert Downey Jr.,
Rein,
Gogol Bordello,
Manu Chau,
Gipsy Kings...etc.
(I like jazz, punk rock, psychedelic stuff, Motown 'oldies', R & B, good ol' rock and roll, funk, alternative rock, old Salsa, classical, 'gypsy' (Rroma) music, flamenco, bossa nova, ska, reggae, hardcore, electronica...etc.

My favorite foods are Italian (I could live on just pasta {not so good for the body though}), Mexican, American and Puerto Rican cuisine. I enjoy sweets too....and an array of alcoholic beverages including wine, spirits and assorted beers and rum. Cigars/tobacco are also something I enjoy. I love me some Monte Cristo's and some good ol' RYO Bali Shag and organic American Spirit.

Love.
Oxygen.
People.
Music.
Books.
Cigarettes.

The world, life, death, spirituality, kindness; human behaviour and the real meaning of altruism (which I believe exists). Also how much I would love to be able to adopt a child someday...

It varies. I could be watching a movie at home or at a theater...or enjoying a stimulating conversation over some wine or a few beers with a close one or a complete stranger.

I can enjoy an expensive wine and a good meal, but I'm just as happy (in many cases, much more happy) sitting somewhere with a pretzel or taking a walk while enjoying some good conversation. I'm not impressed by money, quite the contrary. Simplicity is often much more beautiful.

I can be quite a complicated little lady....I'm not in the least conventional and I had a very libertine and odd upbringing (hippie parents) so I turned into a weird lady (I don't mean this negatively). I'm usually a mix of femininity with tomboy-ish and male attitudes. I'm just a mix of class, sophistication and education with ghetto and street-wise attitudes, it probably won't make sense but that's what happens when poor people get an education and get out of the ghetto...and when girls grow up around boys.

If the overly redundant nonsense I've written here makes sense to you. If you'd like to discuss wine and beer; poetry, philosophy, literature and hedonism...or if you have overall similar interests (and if you have a beard too).