Me = LA native, born in Hollywood. The hospital I was born in is now the church of Scientology. Yes, I do feel tainted by this fact.

I love food, greatly enjoy the outdoors & couldn't imagine living far from the ocean. I'm a runner, a hiker, a mountain biker...

Wow, a rhyme. That was horrible.

I'm a foodie. I believe life is too short to eat bad food or drink bad wine. Of course I also believe life is too short to not exercise after partaking in the aforementioned good food & wine, lest we feel sluggish. I can't abide couch potatoes, especially in Southern California. Go outside, play in the sun, you'll feel better, trust me.

I'm allergic to cats but have one (it lives outdoors at my old place... I visit & play & my old neighbor feeds him... long story, he was a rescue that grew up in my yard. Hey, I may be allergic but I couldn't let the little bugger be put to sleep!)

I'm a former mohawked punker (back when it actually wasn't cool and you didn't buy your $200 punk wardrobe at Hot Topic). Now I'm the normal looking guy (give or take) who still loves old Bad Religion & Circle Jerks (the band, not the nasty sexual act). It's all about state of mind. Mine's pretty open, is yours?

I'm quite amused with this site so far. Enough so that I even posted pics, wrote some pithy blurbs and even took a bunch of tests. While I'd love to actually be struck with a case of "ooh, she's awesome!", I'll more likely come down with "hey, cool friend". What that means is that while I'd love to meet someone I would be "Interested" in, it may or may not happen, but a cool friend or two would still be pretty awesome. One can never have too many great people to run amok with!

REVELATION: (using "update" is so 2008) I just realized I'm in my 30's. Wow, easy to forget when you live life by the rule "If you were on an island with no clocks and no calendars how old would you be?" Me, I firmly believe the adage, "You have to age but you don't have to get old." Still, cut me in half & count the rings, then drop about a decade and you should have my persona age (minus the binge drinking associated with that age)

Revelation Part II: I type way too much sometimes.

I'm doing all kinds of things with my life. Until recently I was an on-set medic in the film biz. Basically a glorified school nurse for actors & stuntmen. 95% of the time my job was as exciting as, "Can I have an aspirin?" "Sure".

Yeah, high adventure... 8 years of it.

So now I'm galavanting & working on several other things, hoping one will pay off in the reasonably near future. Life's too short to work in a cubicle or in fluorescent lights (or heaven forbid, both!) While I could go back to the old medic job at any time (my union card is active you see), I think that the industry is a trap. Sure you make great money, but you're so busy working you never get to enjoy it. Life's too short and I have no desire to work to retirement age only to realize that I'm too old & tired to enjoy myself. So here I am, trying other things, working and traveling in new cities. I'm taking back my life after 8 years of 14 hour days and I'm loving it.

For shits & giggles I write. Zombie stories, adventure stories, romance stories... it's a hobby that would be fun to make a buck at some day. We shall see.

I spend a ton of time in either LA or Philly. I'll also be off to San Francisco again quite soon. It's good to be busy and even better when you can be busy in new and interesting places!

UPDATE: I am officially over Philly. No, for reals. I love the town, it's food, history, architecture, the Philly 'vibe' (I even love Sugar Mom's) but between the bass-ackwards way the city is run, the preponderance of hipsters with shitty neck tattoos of their own name (the hipster version of a cowboy beltbuckle methinks) and some horrible stuff that recently happened to a dear friend, well let's just say that if you know anyone who wants to buy a car in Philly I'll be looking to sell mine. Yes I have a car there for work. Long story. Of course I still have to go back periodically... karma or something?

I think Berlin and Florence are the next destinations. I miss Florence every day (literally) and my friend in Berlin (awesome city) keeps bugging me to come back & visit. Maybe if the Euro tanks a bit further vs. the dollar. In the meantime most of the year I live a few blocks from the beach in Venice... not such a bad life.

New Venture! I'm now working on making and bringing to market a super spicy ginger brew. Suggestions for names/slogans accepted. My friend came up with "Hotter than a supermodel on fire" which made me laugh. I think that is probably more marketable than "More burn than after that Bangkok bordello", which still amuses me.

Being modest.

Being Sarcastic.

Oh, and full-contact strip-Scrabble.

The peg-leg, glass eye and parrot on my shoulder.

Sorry, was dreaming about pirates again. It's fun to be swarthy!

Pixies, best band ever. Don't try to argue, it's the internet and I can't hear you.

Books? What are those? You mean the things they use to write down what was said in the movies?

Neil Gaiman (Good Omens especially), Ariosto (Orlando Furioso), Guy de Maupassant, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Christopher Moore, Amy Hempel...the list goes on...

Wristcutters. Brain Smasher (a love story). Groundhog Day. Love that movie.
Amelie, Girl on the Bridge, 5th Element, Cinema Paradiso, Oh hell, I watch it all, there are too many to list (and lists are rather boring anyway for the most part.)

Digging Brit Tv... Spaced, The IT Crowd, Life on Mars, Black Books, Peepshow... still haven't seen Big Train, that's next on the list.

...Mark it 8 Dude...

If Man is 5 then the Devil is 6...

I like to think I could do just fine with a loincloth and a Rambo knife. But let's be realistic...

Good food, music, art, conversation, travel, adventure, exercise and of course the one everyone has to include here, sex (though I think it may fall under "exercise" or maybe even "adventure" in the right situation)

Traveling the world, eating amazing new foods, meeting amazing new people, expanding my horizons, seeing it all! Life's too short not to travel!

Oh, and I also spend hours thinking about "walls of pretty".... one can never look at too much art!

Either in or out, either quiet or bantering, either running amok or being mellow...

The ideal is to not fall into the trap of having a "typical" Friday night isn't it? So much more fun to change it up.

I do love First Fridays though. So much great artwork, so little time!

That I find it odd they ask you to admit something private here. Hmmmm, it's all data mining for Big Brother!

Ok, here's something. I know how to say "Circle Jerk" in Swedish. Yes, totally random vocabulary gold pointed out by my Swede friend who realized that two words I know (Bun and Masturbate) combined make Circle Jerk.

No, I'm not typing it here, you'll just have to be curious. Ha!

You are intelligent, have a penchant for witty banter, are sarcasmic (so sarcastic you get off from it) and don't take life too seriously.

I'm in LA but do travel fairly often. Philly is a regular stop as is SF lately. It'd be lovely to meet some new friends around the country or even the world, so if you'd care to just say hi (rather than send a lascivious message, though those are ok too) by all means do.