All about me, huh. That's a pretty open-ended request. I mean what am I supposed to do, just ramble aimlessly and hope you get the information you're looking for? No dice, buddy. If I'm gonna do this thing you gotta be specific, or else I'll probably end up boring your ass right off your body and then where will we be? I'll be standing here babbling about heavy metal and hard drugs and furries and transsexuals and you'll be bored and assless. I don't think either of us wants that.

Although I will freely admit that the mental image of The Man With No Ass is really, really funny.

Seriously, though, the best way I can quantify myself is through my favorite bands: Iron Maiden, Megadeth, New Model Army, Skyclad, Accept, and Death Angel. That, and the stuff above, should tell you everything about me you need to know. I'm also big on random shit like the art of invective and the Philosophy of the Paper and the Knife, but that's a bit more in-depth...

I am anarcho-communist, canine, and polyamorous

Right now, I am a vaguely-employed artist and freelance bum. I used to be a student but various factors, including but not limited to health problems and a teacher apparently terrified of short guys with long hair and no shoes, have effectively put an end to that particular pursuit and frankly I'm in no hurry to get back into it. Otherwise, the stuff written here is still more or less accurate so I see no real reason to revise it. So I won't.

Well, fix one health problem, end up with another one. I had my surgery, but right after it, I paid the price for ignoring subtler signals and broke a disc in my spine. On the plus side, I can still outwrestle other pit bulls so long as I only use my arms and shoulders so I figure I'm doing okay. Eh?

I'm currently doing that whole pharmacy-tech-studying thing I mentioned in the previous iteration of this profile. Pharmacology rocks serious ass. It's one of those do-it-at-your-own-pace kind of things, which means it'll take me forever to, y'know, finish it and get a job, but on the other paw I'll know it better than you know yourself by the end of it, so there you go. From there, I work as a pharmacy tech. And that pretty much caps off my plans for future employment. I'm not very ambitious, and being a simple pharmacy tech in all likelihood is going to end up being the most I'll ever 'amount to', so if you're looking for some mover-shaker type you might as well move on. But I'm mellow, trusting, loving, and secure in my lowliness, and I'll probably be a lot happier in my insignificant position than most of those people can even imagine being. So there.

I'm not sure I consider this 'doing something with' my life as much as just being part of it, but since it's something you lot reading this will want to be informed of in case you're finding me attractive so far (for whatever strange reason) and are considering contacting me, asking me out, or whatnot, I'll go into it. I know this is going to put a lot of otherwise awesome people off, but I'd rather have that happen now than get attached to someone who'll notice my eyes are pinned one day and flip out at me for being a werejunkie. So here goes nothin'.

I am a long-standing multi-drug user. That is, I use several different kinds of drugs on sort of a random basis, not that I use a large quantity of one particular drug. While drugs certainly aren't the center of my life, they are a rather significant part of it, and if that matters to you, you might want to move on, because I'm not going to change a lifestyle that's working out very well for me just because it makes a potential friend/mate nervous or whatnot.

Now, mind you, this is not to say that I throw myself wantonly into anything that seems interesting with no thought or care for tomorrow. I take a good deal of care and pride in using responsibly and living sustainably, at least to the best of my ability with everything else going on in life. I always do a lot of research on any drug I'm interested in using, including descriptions of its subjective effects by other users, its chemical composition and how it functions in the brain and body, what positive, neutral, and negative side-effects have been recorded and which I should expect based on my health, age, physical status, et cetera. I take care of myself, more or less, and listen to my body. I don't use a drug just because I happen to feel like it at the moment (although sometimes I am powerfully driven by a need for this or that, similar to how sometimes I'll get a powerful craving for a certain kind of food -- I take that as a signal of deficiency and part of listening to my body); all drugs have meaning and a purpose for me. Most of them are tools and none of them are toys. I respect them for what they are, and I don't ascribe them qualities they don't have. I never choose drugs over food or other necessities, and more importantly, I've never even had to make that decision; I invariably am able to cover both necessities and drugs one way or another, usually with some left over for anything else I feel like putting it towards. I certainly don't live the high life, and as an individual I'll probably never even be anything above lower middle class, but I'm also not one bad judgement call away from homelessness or the grave either.

In short, a few years ago I did a lot of research, a lot of thinking, and a lot of soul-searching. At the end of it, I decided to give all this a try, carefully and cautiously. And lo, I found that it was good, and I've never looked back. Certainly I've experienced some negativity that I wouldn't have if I weren't a user, but I've also experienced exponentially more positivity that I wouldn't have had I never done my first hit of methamphetamine or oxycodone or marijuana. The negatives are like a broken bone next to winning the lottery. I'm a drug user, and I'm doing fine.

Don't believe me? Drop me a line and get to know me so you can find out for yourself.

Screwing up and being a jerk.

Seriously, I don't really know what to say. I'm good with words, I suppose, particularly when I'm angry. Heh. I'm told I'm funny. And I do amuse myself quite frequently but that doesn't really count, does it? Can't deny a certain amount of artistic skill, or at least inclination.

Ahh. Waffling and self-deprecation. Definitely good at those.

In all seriousness, I'm very good at roleplaying and a king of the English language, I can read six hundred pages in an afternoon without speedreading or otherwise skipping anything, I can type over 100wpm and probably closer to 175 or maybe even more (it's been years since I tested that), I'm a very skilled debator and I love arguing provided there aren't any serious emotions involved, I communicate very well with animals, I read most people easily and accurately if I care to... *shrugs* That's just the stuff I can think of that I know are more or less true. Saying it feels uncomfortably like bragging, though. I know I'm not making it up or exaggerating (and I might be a bit conservative in a couple areas, actually) but I'm just not comfortable extolling my own abilities for some reason. Who knows?

You tell me. What did you notice first? (Actually, seriously, do. I have no fuckin' idea and I'm sorta curious.)

Books

By Author:

Dean Koontz -- Fear Nothing, Seize the Night, Midnight, Hideaway, False Memory, Odd Thomas, The Face, By the Light of the Moon, Dark Rivers of the Heart

Michael Creichton -- Jurassic Park, Sphere

Bill Bridges -- The Last Battle

Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman -- All the Dragonlance books up to Dragons of Summer Flame, but most especially The Doom Brigade.

Machiavelli -- The Prince

Al Franken -- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

J.R.R. Tolkien -- Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit

Robert Aspirin -- All the Mythadventures of Aahz and Skeeve.

It goes on and on and on... on average I read several books a week. There's no room to list everything I enjoy, but I also read Pern, the Anonymous Rex series (which goes Anonymous Rex, Casual Rex, and Hot and Sweaty Rex with more on the way), a HELL of a lot of Dean Koontz, some Stephen King, random textbooks for the fun of it, the DSM-IV and its companion study guide (yes, I read those recreationally), et cetera. Moving on to much shorter lists...

Movies

Night of the Living Dead

Apocalypse Now (NOT the shitasmic redux)

The Howling

Dead Alive

Wolfen

Highlander

Airplane

Die Hard

The Omen

Jurassic Park

JP: The Lost World

JPIII (forget the name

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Not a true documentary, but entertaining and more true than not nonetheless.)

Bowling for Columbine (Same.)

Behind Enemy Lines

Music

Roughly in order of preference. This is more a listing of general Stuff I Listen To rather than *favourites*, because I listen to A Lot of Music and I wanted to give a general overview of my listening habits rather than sticking to just the stuff I like best. I may trim it down to 'favourites' someday, but at the moment I don't feel like it.

By Genre:

Heavy Metal --

Traditional Metal: Iron Maiden, Accept, Blaze, Bruce Dickinson, Iced Earth, Shadoz Edge, Dio, Seikima-II

Thrash Metal: Megadeth, Death Angel, Exodus, Annihilator, Anthrax, Laaz Rockit, Meanstreak, Nevermore (power/thrash), Stormtroopers of Death, Sepultura (most)

Folk/Viking Metal: Skyclad, The Lord Weird Slough Feg, Cruachan, Otyg, Angizia

Death Metal: Death, Opeth, In Flames, early Therion, Strapping Young Lad, Carcass, Soilwork, Gardenian

Black Metal: Vintersorg, Summoning, Agalloch, Amon Amarth, Arcturus, Lilitu, Havayoth

Power Metal: Blind Guardian, Demons and Wizards, Manowar, Hammerfall, Angel Dust, Dragonforce, Falconer, Zanister, Running Wild, Nightwish

Doom Metal: Dawn of Dreams, Dark Tranquility, Mahavatar, Daylight Dies

Progressive Metal: Savatage (powerprog), Dream Theater, Michael Vescera Project, Queensryche, Symphony X

Metalcore: Providing the Sickness, Vic 20, Enemy Dawn, Multiply, Neck

Nu-Metal (NOT the bullshit unmetal Korn/Limp Bizkit/Papa Roach douchefucks, true modern-style metal): Sift, Chimaira, Fear Factory, Dead Method

Grindcore: Zombie Sneak Attack, Anal Cunt, Fuck ... I'm Dead, Cattle Decapatation, As Millions Suffer, Asscavern, Goatfuck

Punk Rock

Folk/Cow Punk: New Model Army, Mojo Nixon, The Ziggens (some)

Traditional Punk: Dead Kennedys, The Dead Boys, The Ramones, Neurotic Outsiders, Danzig, The Ziggens (some)

Hardcore: 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Spitfire, Black Flag, Biohazard, Agnostic Front

Pop Punk: Atom and His Package, Pansy Divison

True Rock

Surf Rock (Preferably Instrumental): Dick Dale, The Ziggens (some), The Surfaris, The Mermen, The Ventures, Izzy Stradlin', Gary Hoey (some), Agent Orange (some), Surf Punks, Meshugga Beach Party, Blacklight Posterboys, Los Straitjackets, Junior Brown

NWOBHM: A.S.A.P., Wolfsbane, Tygers of Pan Tang, Overkill, Blitzkrieg, Wolf

Classic Rock: The Doors, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Allman Brothers, Golden Earring, Alice Cooper, Elton John (early; the good stuff), Aerosmith, Frank Zappa, Queen, Rolling Stones, Steppenwolf, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull

Hard Rock: Psycho Motel, Slash's Snakepit, Motley Crue, Guns n' Roses, Faster Pussycat, Tool, Pat Benatar, Sugar Ray (the real early stuff before they sold out), Faith No More, Rob Zombie, Rammstein, AC/DC, Satriani, WASP

Rap/Hip-Hop

Subgenre? Who knows?: Non-Phixion, Insane Clown Posse, KRS-One, MC 900 Foot Jesus, MC Frontalot, MC Hawking, DJ Deathtrip, Necro, Ill Bill, Gorillaz, NWA, Chino XL, Busta Rhymes

Industrial

Coil, Frontline Assembly, Skinny Puppy, White Zombie, KOMPRESSOR, Biotek, VNV Nation, Wumpscut, Allerseelen, Das Ich, Suicide Commando

Random Other Bands

Great Big Sea, GWAR, Momus, Voyeurs, Coven, Greg Kihn Band, KMFDM, Obsidian Dawn, Venetian Snares, ... And Oceans, Abuse of Power, Powermad, Alice in Chains, Rhapsody, Prototype, Primus, Nirvana, Pitboss 2000, Mithotyn, The Wildhearts, et cetera ad nauseam...

And finally, last but not least...Food

I am a dog (pitbull/coyote for anyone interested), so naturally, I am a carnivore. Respect to you vegetarians, vegans, et cetera out there, but I can't do it and I don't really want to. For me, that just isn't natural. I'm also a big fan of breads and other grain-based food for some odd reason or another. Anyway if you're wondering what kind of stuff to feed me, here's some specifics... fortunately, other than the above stipulation of carnivorism, I'm not terribly picky. Not that I expect anyone is even remotely interested in feeding me, but hey... it could happen. *shrug*

Japanese: Sushi (unagi, tobiko, tamago), unagidon, miso soup, green tea ice cream

Chinese: Hot and sour soup, pork chow mein, mushu pork, pork fried rice, sweet and sour pork, lemon chicken, potstickers, fried wontons, pork rolls

Et Cetera: Chili dogs, chili cheeseburgers, double cheeseburgers with extra onions at McDonalds, double cheeseburgers with bacon at Burger King, soft tacos with no cheese and extra meat at Taco Bell, pepperoni, sausage and pepperoni, and meatball mozarella Hot Pockets, cinnamon sugar toast, Cheerios, Rice Krispies, Raisen Bran, apple spice, brown sugar, and fruit-and-cream oatmeal, Bagel Bites pizza, Tombstone frozen pizza (pepperoni, sausage and pepperoni, four meat), min-Tombstones (same flavours), sausage and Craterellus (black trumpet mushroom) omelette with Italian herb toast, roast duck sandwiches with Chinese duck sauce, et cetera ad infinitum.

If anyone is still reading at this point, you have my hearty congratulations. I am impressed by both your patience and how interested in me you actually seem to be. You may now rest easy, knowing that you know far, far more about me than anyone ever needs to know. If knowledge is power, you are now a king. At least, of me. What that gets you is a scruffy half-coyote pitbull who likes OxyContin and pizza, but hey, it's something.

Music, my pack, my mates (I'm polyamorous so I count any and all currently choosing to be with me as one entity, because I couldn't pick one over another), freedom to run, the Internet. Yeah, yeah, shut up. And I think that's really it. I could tack on drugs too, but if I'm being fully honest, I could live without that. It would just suck.

All sorts of things. I have inattentive-type ADD, so my brain jumps from one thing to another just habitually, following the tiniest strands of connection from one idea to the next, just basically wandering aimlessly through the ether. I do spend a lot of time deliberately thinking, though, and often my thoughts concern music, art, people I love, people I miss, drugs, what I should draw next, wondering if I should make a move towards someone I know is very fond of me in case he could use a friend with benefits even over the Internet but worrying I'll frighten him or something, pondering various philosophical ideas, thinking about my roleplaying characters and/or talking to them and/or helping a new one grow from the seed of an idea into a full-fledged personality, whatever book I'm reading or game I'm playing at the moment, neuro- and/or psychopharmacology, pharmacology itself, psychology, bands I like, bands I want to see live, bands I have seen live... it goes on forever about literally anything.

Although it is fair to note that, when someone I don't know approaches me in a friendly way and starts talking to me, I think a lot about them because they're totally new to me and thus fascinating, and so even when my brain wanders off it usually comes back to where it started within a few minutes. And I rarely miss something my long-time friends say to me because I'm so used to listening to them that it's almost a subconscious habit, so I don't even need to be looking at them to pay attention on one level or another. So rest assured, when you speak to me, I am listening even if my mind is temporarily somewhere else. :)

Hanging out right here online or wandering around with my car and my MP3 player, usually cruising under the influence of at least one substance if not more. I might be playing Drinking Stupid or 21 with my brother or roleplaying or up to my ears in art supplies, but I'll more than likely be comfortably stoned and available to talk or hang out or whatever.

Actually, that's a pretty good description of any given night.

I'm not a sexual person much at all. I used the word 'bisexual' to describe myself because, given I have no [hysical interest in sex whatsoever, I don't really care what anyone else has in their pants in that respect either. The best term would be 'asexual', I guess.

Since my doctor prescribed testosterone to me as a hormonal therapy, though, and since discovering that the boost in mood and physical strength and so forth I get from that blends very nicely with my favourite drug at the moment(an opioid), my interest in sex has changed somewhat. I still have little to no physical interest in it (that is, at risk of TMI, my 'erogenous zones' aren't really erotically responsive; masturbation doesn't feel like anything special, I don't really get physically aroused, et cetera ad nauseam), but the testosterone and the opioid work together to make me feel both more confidently masculine and a hell of a lot more affectionate, with the result that I now enjoy engaging in sexual activity on a psychological and emotional level. I still don't feel much of anything from it physically, but I truly enjoy playing at (that is, roleplaying) sexual acts with those people whom I love, and occasionally a particularly good friend, or even just a new buddy if we click well enough, to whom I'm attracted (usually male, but I certainly won't turn down a woman if I like her a lot and she wants something from me).

I specify 'roleplaying' up there because the only people I've ever been interested in sexual play with are people who live quite a good while away from me, and so the option of actual physical sexplay doesn't really exist for us. And to be honest, I'm not sure I'd be quite as comfortable, enthusiastic, or good at 'real' sexplay as I am at roleplaying it, just because I've never done anything even remotely similar (hell, I've never even kissed anyone) offline, and I honestly don't think I'd know what the hell to do. Inexperience plus being right in the middle of my transition (I'm a transfag) equals a lot of incertainty. Someday I'll most likely learn how and what to do, most likely after I complete my transition, but most likely not for a while yet.

So, you people looking for a lover who like having physical sex early in the relationship, I recommend going elsewhere. Even people a good distance from me who'd be happy with roleplaying probably shouldn't get their hopes up. For me, sex is a way to express affection and caring for people I feel at least a strong connection with, and mostly it's something I do for people I love. So there's that I guess. There's always the possibility for exceptions I suppose... but then, I say that because I'm stoned as I type this. Besides, I think there's some cosmic law against people coming to me primarily for sex (pun inadverdant).

You're really bored. Or if you're interested in, or, gods forbid, attracted to me, I suppose. That's probably not a likely scenario, but who knows? I'm always happy to hang out with anyone who's interested in hanging with me, so go ahead and get in contact if you feel like it, for whatever reasons you may have. Doesn't matter to me -- although do warn me up front if your interest in me is, improbably, romantic in nature. Because if you don't I'll probably never notice unless you start blatantly flirting with me or something. And even then I'm likely to interpret it as play and return it in that mind, rather than recognising that you really are flirting with me, if that makes sense.

Aw hell with it. If you feel like saying hi, do it. I only bite if you don't mind. :)