I'm eclectic, musical, contradictory, sensitive, sincere, intense, extreme, scatterbrained, and goofy. I'm bad at moderation and not taking things personally.

I love sharpies, singing & whistling, dark blue, madrona and cedar trees, wisteria, carnelian, Tetris, scaffolding, all kinds of alleys- even the smelly or muddy ones, tidepools, thrift stores, unusual architecture, spirals, and tildes. I'm interested in video editing. I want to enjoy chess, but I can't plan ahead enough for it to make any sense to me. I enjoy watching people play though. I do not like Furbys.

I live in the city right now, but what I want is to make a simple life in the wilderness with a woodstove, a group of friends, and some goats and chickens. I'd love to join or create some kind of intentional community. I am enamored with the idea of living at Christiania in Copenhagen.

I'm libertarian leaning towards anarchist. I am not opposed to hanging out with ultra democratic or republican people or possibly even trying to date them. But it might be tricky.

I used to be The Dirty Little Secret (DGSM), then Half-Cocked (RBSD), and now I'm The Playstation (RGSM). Yikes.

I like the natural smell of healthy people.

I do not have an umbrella, car, dishwasher, or TV. I take long walks in the rain.

I do not support organized curb-side recycling. I reduce and reuse and I turn trash into art and other things, or use it in other ways not intended. All of my paper products come from dumpsters. But traditional recycling is not a priority for me. In fact I'd even go so far as to say I think it does more harm than good.

I am open to polyamory or monogamy depending on who I meet. Or maybe slutty making out but monogamous sex. Or something like that.

I love, love hair. I like to touch other people's hair and I like people to touch my hair. Run your fingers through it, put it in braids or ponytails, twirl it around in loops, whatever, it just feels good! Every four or five years I shave my head and it feels fuzzy. I like to have it rubbed.

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My ideal match is someone who wants to travel around North, Central, and South America with me by bike, boxcar, kayak, or on foot, and go surfing, snow-shoeing, and hang-gliding, and tell each other silly stories under the stars and ponder our place in the universe. But even if you don't like adventure or being outdoors or word games or delving deep into our psyches and life goals or being weird and silly, we might still get along great. I'm actually fine with meaningless sex.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. ~Marie Beyon Ray

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The very least you can do in your life, is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do, is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its' roof. ~Barbara Kingsolver

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. ~Colin Greene

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around
you, every moment becomes a prayer. ~Frank Bianco

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste, that they hurry past it. ~Soren Kierkegaard

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same reason. ~Douglas Adams

~ Starting to sing again which I have missed! I love making music more than almost anything else in the world.
~ Trying to understand why I'm not doing what I say I want to.
~ Dancing in a peep show.
~ Climbing and swinging on scaffolding.
~ Making art. Right now I'm working on a musical You Tube vid and a multi-media collage made from a pizza box and found objects.
~ Learning to love, respect, trust, and forgive myself.
~ Finding out what kind of person I want to be.
~ Sewing poofy petticoats.
~ Being a slob.
~ Learning to play poker.
~ Dumpster diving.

I recently got involved in an amazing business called Market America that I am very excited about. It's quickly becoming a big part of my life.

And here are a few things I love to do but haven't done lately: Drawing knots. Riding rollercoasters. Trying to do gymnastics. Skydiving. Backpacking. Climbing trees in a windstorm. Going everywhere by bicycle. Roller skating. Writing essays and short stories. Tie dyeing stuff. Swing dancing.

Someday I will build a round, underground, dome-top, grassy, mossy, compact house out of wood, stone, metal, bottles, and whatever other interesting things I find, with roses growing on top. It will have stained glass windows, and a loft.

I want to learn to hop my bike onto a curb but I'm too scared to really try it. And I've always wanted to learn to ride a skateboard but I'm too self-conscious. :(

As soon as I get settled somewhere, I want to sing in a choir again. I really miss it.

I've been making some major changes in my life in the past few years and it's really wearing on me. Even though my life is getting better all the time, it's still stressful. I haven't had the motivation to do much- even things I love. That's a sad excuse.

Singing, whistling, drawing knots, cartwheels, spelling and grammar, being funny when I'm not trying to, arranging furniture, getting in touch with myself, coming up with silly stories off the top of my head, and getting lost. I can do the splits.

Probably that I'm fidgetty, that I seem to be in my own world a lot, that I write and draw on my hands and arms, and I have conversations with myself. Also my tattoos and my obnoxiously large boobies.

Books: Ender's Game series, Prodigal Summer, Practical Magic, anything by Daniel Quinn or Francesca Lia Block, The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving, Handmade Houses, The Catch Trap, Fahrenheit 451, Fledgling, Making A Living Without A Job, My Side of the Mountain, The Hobbit, Back When We Were Grownups, A Walk In The Woods, Anne of Green Gables, Running With Scissors, Watership Down, The Giving Tree, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, The Earth House, Dykes To Watch Out For, The Clan of the Cave Bear, Midnight In The Garden of Good And Evil, White Oleander, Six of One

Movies: Thank You For Smoking, DEBS, The Ref, Men In Black, Go Fish, Mary Poppins, The Long Kiss Goodnight, V For Vendetta, Groundhog Day, Serenity, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Matrix, Secretary, French Twist, Almost Famous, Flashdance, The Pursuit of Happyness, 12 Angry Men, The Addams Family, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Where The Heart Is, Death Proof, Juno, Lost In Translation, Joe Vs. The Volcano, Chocolat, Beautiful Thing, Thin Red Line, The Thomas Crowne Affair, The Gods Must Be Crazy, The Full Monty

Music: I like every kind of music. Barbershop, bluegrass, house, trance, NRG, choirs, mashups, marimba, big band, gospel, The Gorillaz, Anything Box, Dar Williams, Vanessa Carlton, The Vandals, The Beastie Boys, Libana, Run DMC, The Mamas and The Papas, Lauryn Hill, Andrews Sisters, KMFDM, Metallica, Men Without Hats, The Wailing Jennys, Tchaikovsky, Joy Division, Evanescence, Afro Celt Sound System, Blink 182, Garbage, Dead Can Dance, Queen, Kimya Dawson, Atomik Harmonik, Yaz, Garmana, Madredeus, Echo and the Bunnymen, Lebo M, John Denver, Lil Wayne, Me First & The Gimme Gimmes, Willie Nelson, Bobby McFerrin, Pink, Imogen Heap, Erasure, Joni Mitchell, Harry Belafonte, Macy Gray, Ivy Queen, Stomp, Johnny Cash, Methods of Mayhem, The Nylons, Tom Petty, The Dixie Chicks, Vienna Teng, Christina Aguilera, Love and Rockets, Weird Al, Enya, Rihanna, Mozart, John Rutter, Venus Hum, Beyonce, Shakira, Fleetwood Mac, Die Form, Indigo Girls, Covenant, Sublime, Salt N Pepa, Palestrina, Sarah Vaughn, Paul Simon, Apoptygma Berserk, Ladytron, India Arie, Tori Amos, Tegan & Sara, you name it. I'm loving Lady Gaga's "Poker Face". Lenlow is fantastic and amazing!

I love Pandora online radio. I listen every day.

I've watched the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical about 50 times and I have the songs on mp3s.

TV (on DVD only): Everything by Joss Whedon, Northern Exposure, Six Feet Under, Queer As Folk, The L Word, Big Love, CSI Las Vegas, High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, Dead Like Me, Red Dwarf, Eureka, Whose Line Is It Anyway, Dexter

Food: Mexican, Thai, sushi, Greek, bacon cheeseburgers, chunky peanut butter cookies, fudge with walnuts, peach margaritas, watermelon, grapefruit, veggie or bacon pizza, Jamba Juice smoothies, cheesecake, sour cream and onion potato chips

I'm the only person I know who doesn't like The Simpson's. It's okay I guess, but I never had a desire to watch it.

This question is silly. :/

Trust. Anarchy. Energy. Music. Creativity. Spirituality. Dark blue. Linguistics. Fear. Passion (I'm not talking about sex, or even love). Free will. Building a house. Physics. Light, colors, and shadows. Ethics. Architecture. Sex.

Everything.

How I can be a better person, and how I can learn to trust and respect myself more. How to achieve my goals. Whether or not I'm okay as I am.

Hard to say. I'd like to try the Friday night dance at The Wet Spot.

I wear men's undies. I like some of Brittany Spears' songs. Sometimes I like to be sad. I eat my boogers (in private). I have an anxiety disorder. I do think that a person's taste in books and movies says a lot about them. My moods change like the wind.

I may be a lot more full of shit than even I realized. I want to open myself to the world a lot more.

If you ask me something about myself, I'll probably answer, and if I answer, it will be the truth.

... You are a woman (or we're already friends ^_^)

...You have good boundaries, and are good at respecting other people's boundaries.

... You are not offended by libertarians

... You don't mind that I dance in a peep show and watch men jerk off.

...You don't use tobacco. I might make an exception for this one, but you better be able to prove that you are exceptional.

...You either proofread your messages before you send them or are a good typist. Seriously. I have real trouble reading messages that have a lot of spelling and grammar errors. I don't need perfection; just make an effort. I heart people who know how to use a semicolon.

OR... if you look like a chunkier Jordana Brewster!

... Bonus if you have a lot of hair and like people to touch it. Big bonus if you are passionate about art! (Including music, dance, architecture, writing, etc. In fact I think almost anything can be done artistically)