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Passionate about music and making the world a better place. I'm also into hanging out in The Park, people watching, camping/hiking, pure American freedom (a.k.a. tearing down the open road like a Bald Eagle on my motorcycle), reading, watching movies, gardening, and drinking beer/whiskey. An explorer at heart, I would rather take the back roads than sit in traffic, even if it takes longer.

As a 4th generation New Yorker I'm prone to sarcasm. Sometimes I offend midwesterners, but I'm actually sweet and affectionate. And.
I do yoga.

I used to be a community organizer. Then, I was community horticulturalist. Now, I'm a musician/sound engineer. I also have a part time gig helping poor people find housing.

I'll always be a pinko.

I'm a pretty well rounded human and half way decent at a lot of things. However, I'm ranked internationally in the following:
Skipping rocks (my personal record is 26 skips);
petting cats;
writing melancholy songs;
navigating and packing (I'm a well traveled NOLS graduate);
crossing the line;
Super Mario World;
being a good listener;
and, of course, parallel parking.

People who don't know me have a hard time telling if I'm being serious. I'm not.

Books:
The Mists of Avalon; The Giver; 1984; Siddhartha; The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Steppenwolf; All the Kings Men; Mother Night; Heart of Darkness.

Movies:
The Little Mermaid; The Godfather; Monterey Pop; Wayne's World; Being John Malkovich; The Village; Purple Rain; Encounters at the End of the World; Star Trek; Planet Earth; American Beauty.

Shows:
Don't really watch TV, but if I do it 's probably SVU.

Music:
Zeppelin; Neil Young; Baroness; Two Gallants; Surfer Blood; Iron & Wine; The Strokes; Meat Loaf; Roberta Flack; Margot and the Nuclear So and So's; Ratatat; Pink Floyd; Paul Simon; Band of Horses; Gillian Welch; NWA; Michael Jackson; Queen; Chuck Berry; Fleetwood Mac; Leonard Cohen. Rock & Roll etc. Since I started working in recording studios, I've learned to appreciate most music, sometimes by necessity.

Food:
I like most food, as long as it's actually food. But really, pizza and cookies.

Seltzer.

Songs I'm writing; Springtime (please, thank you?); socioeconomic and environmental issues (i.e. how fucked up Shit is); the great open Spaces of the American West; whether I should get a Cat; REALLY boring technical recording Stuff; learning Dutch using this music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmVDr93UJQQ; Yankee Lake.

Actually, I prefer to party on Sunday.

...isn't everything on the internet already?

Please *don't* message me if you hate snuggling. Obviously we don't have to snuggle, but I can't stand snuggle-haters.

Please *do* message me if you think we would connect in some transcendental way, or just have a good conversation over drinks on a Tuesday (or similar).