Hello. My name is Maurice. I'm actively pursuing a quiet Winter. I've recently realized that I tend to get into some really frustrating moments during the first three fourths of the year, so I'm making sure the end is a bit more solemn and productive.

I'm generally keeping to myself nowadays, working on some projects or occasionally spending time with friends. Other than that, it's been calm.
Having many interests, I tend to think randomly and quite often. However, I do have a strong personality and a clear point of view, but it is fun to just space out every once in awhile. I used to have this clear cut plan to get my degree in whatever seemed to be more profitable, to live a life of comfort. Now, however, my life is quite different. I've made sure that my life revolves around the people, activities, and pursuits that are dear to me instead of an image of what society expects out of me. I am an artist, no matter how little profit I get from it. I'm a lover, no matter how many times it hasn't worked out with the women I've seen. I'm very passionate, and I believe in myself and what I do.

Art is my life. It is really important to me, so much that it has been the determining factor in a lot of my decisions in life. I really appreciate the Renaissance painters (Caravaggio, I love you), and I've grow towards modern design (yatzer.com). I enjoy silence, but I also look forward to occasional outbursts of fun, maybe at some random party or having an occasional get together with friends with my greatest bud, wine! I've recently realized that I'm a spiritual person in a sense, or at least in my own way. I enjoy the writings of Kahlil Gibran and Jiddu Krishnamurti, and I really respect great poets such as Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky. Kurt Vonnegut is also a favorite of mine, and Chuck Palahniuk has been moving up ever since he wrote Rant. Nature, or rather my connection with the rest of the world is really important to me. I cherish the natural beauty of this world, and I openly embrace the many cultures that dwell on Earth. I'm a traveller. I have seen many places already, and I know I will continue to once the time arises (or when money magically appears and fills up my closet).

I'm spending the these next few months working at a Mazzio's Call Center, which gives me the time I need to work on some large art projects. The job is okay, the pay is not fantastic, but the free time that it grants me is all that I want.

I'm also planning on moving into the city when Spring arrives. I might move out of state with a few colleagues of mine in the near future, but in the end, any change of scenery will do.

I tend to be a jack of all trades, but only in a specific niche if that makes any sense. In this case, I consider myself to be really good and well versed in Art and all that applies to it.

Also, I'm a good conversationalist. I enjoy conversations of any kind, but I do have a soft spot for music or film or anything that anyone does that's creative.

My friend's also say that my perseverance is unmoving. When I learn something, I keep trying until I get it right. I've been learning how to play drums recently and I can never seem to get away from the drum set until I've understood the beat I've been practicing.

The tattoos. I have two quotes in Arabic tattooed on both my forearms ("I existed from all eternity and behold, I am here. And I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end."), a tattoo above my right elbow, and a tattoo on my right side. People don't usually see the one my side as much anymore, but if you do, you'll see Three Flying Cats and the Hammer of Hope. If you can guess where that comes from, I'll respect you for your automatic good taste in music.

People also notice how generally nice and sincere I am. I can be a goof ball from time to time, so that tends to not go unnoticed as well.

Music: Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, The Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Band of Horses, The Beatles, Beck, Beirut, Bjork, The Black Angels, The Black Keys, Black Moth Super Rainbow, B.R.M.C., Bloc Party, The Bloody Beetroots, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Bon Iver, Boris, Born Ruffians, Bowerbirds, Bright Eyes, Brilliant Red Lights, Broken Social Scene, Busdriver, Cake, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Cat Power, The Chemical Brothers, Cold War Kids, Crystal Castles, The Cure, Cut Copy, DAFT PUNK, Damien Rice, DatA, Datarock, Death from Above 1979, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Depeche Mode, Digitalism, Eels, El Paso Hot Button, Elbow, Elefant, Enon, EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY, The Faint, Feist, The Fiery Furnaces, Fischerspooner, The Flaming Lips, Freezepop, Fujiya & Miyagi, Glass Candy, Goddamn Electric Bill, God is an Astronaut, GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR, Gogol Bordello, Goldfrapp, GRANDADDY, Handsome Furs, A HAWK AND A HACKSAW, Heartless Bastards, Holy Fuck, Hope of the States, Hot Chip, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Islands, The Jai-Alai Savant, Jason Webley, Jason Lytle, Josh Ritter, Jumbling Towers, Justice, Kasabian, Kavinsky, Kenna, The Knife, Kraftwerk, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Librarians, Lightspeed Champion, M83, MAN MAN, The Mars Volta, M83, The Mahavishnu Orchestra, Mates of State, Matisyahu, Matt Pond PA, Mellowdrone, MENOMENA, Metric, MEW, MGMT, Midnight Juggernauts, Moby, Modest Mouse, MOGWAI, Moving Units, Mr. Oizo, MSTRKRFT, Mum, MUSE, Nathan Johnson and the Cinematic Underground, Nine Inch Nails, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Peter Gabriel, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Portishead, P.O.S., The Postal Service, Prefuse 73, THE PRESETS, Prototypes, Pure Reason Revolution, The Radio Dept., Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, The Rapture, Ratatat, Red House Painters, Rilo Kiley, Rinocerose, Russian Cirlces, Russian Futurists, Sasha, Saul Williams, Scissor Sisters, SebastiAn, THE SECRET MACHINES, She Wants Revenge, The Shins, Shiny Toy Guns, Shout Out Louds, SIGUR ROS, A Silver Mt. Zion, SPARKLEHORSE, Spiritualized, Starsailor, Stellastarr*, Stephen Malkmus, St. Vincent, The Submarines, Sufjan Stevens, SUNSET RUBDOWN, Taken By Trees, Talk Talk, The Temper Trap, Tom Waits, TV on the Radio, Venice is Sinking, The Verve, The Warlocks, The White Stripes, Wolf Parade, Yann Tierson, 120 Days, !!!, a lot of classical music, and many many more....

I love movies, and too many to try and type on here. Just ask! Also, I love LOST so much!!!!! New shows that are pretty great that I've been watching are Community and FlashForward. How I Met Your Mother is amazing as well.

Books: Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Kahlil Gibran, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Arthur Nersiason, Henry Miller, Joesph Brodsky, Alan Moore, Czeslaw Milosz, Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, James P. Othmer, etc.

-My hands

-A paintbrush (and paint)

-Orange juice (no pulp!)

-My macbook (and subsequently, my music)

-A good Riesling (for the Summer months)

-And that momentous, fun evening with my friends that usually occurs at the end of every year, where I drink way too much wine and make a complete fool out of myself, yell at the television whenever Brady kills me with the fucking sword in Halo (I hate Halo and I hate the sword), and when I finally hit the bed and dream of naked women or actually being Speed Racer!

-The vastness of the Universe (I've been watching a lot of the Science Channel).

-If I should get a Daft Punk tattoo. I know, I'm a nerd.

-If doing the "Naked Man" actually works, and if I should try it.

-My current painting projects.

-My impact on the world and how I can make the Earth a better place somehow.

I'm probably relaxing or watching a film.

I'm currently working on a pretty large painting, so a lot of late nights are committed to that as well...

I tend to dance whenever I take a shower.

If you would like to know more about me.

I find myself talking about almost anything, no matter how weird the subject matter may be, so don't be shy.