I'm a hazel-eyed Moonchild—dapper, highly approachable, and mystically inclined by nature. I was born and raised in New York City, but I've lived in San Francisco for a long time. My parents were indulgent and very kind, which explains a bit about my unusual confidence, jovial disposition, and emotional openness. I'm outspoken but tactful and not what I would call opinionated, in that I usually consider other people's viewpoints of equal interest to my own. My hyperactive metabolism enables me to grasp many things that baffle others, yet I often come up short in practical matters. My faith is solid and hard earned, not inherited or dogmatic. I love to dance, make beautiful things, and gaze slack-jawed into nature.

Like many, I am largely motivated by sex and attractive people, but I cultivate ideals to temper my folly. Although generous to a fault, highly sentimental, and easy going, I enjoy a fetishy, alpha type personality and am extremely bossy in the bedroom. (Yes, my name is an order.) I aspire to an egalitarian, Christian-Anarchist perspective, and try to enjoy everyone's uniqueness, but I'm weary of dull, jaded hipster-clones. I occasionally fret and fuss over futile minutiae, but ultimately rest in the knowledge that Destiny gives each of us what we need. I'm a loner with many friends yet I always want more. I prefer the fast lane, but I'm cautious and indicate before making a turn. Poised on the last rung of confidence before it becomes cocky, I'm secretly a bit shy. Reverent yet perverted. (Perverent?) I have a keen eye for nuance and innuendo, but often miss what's in plain view. I squint hard at the last purple before X-rays.

I worked with handicapped kids at a public high school for 14 years, but I resigned a few years ago in order to focus on creative pursuits full time. Basically, I'm an artist whose primary medium is the social-cultural life. This includes publishing a sporadical magazine called Proof, curating the occasional art show, booking, hosting, and DJing music events, being Music Director for a local Music & Arts Festival, writing a few books, drawing a lot, playing electric guitar, and trying to create a lively, thoughtful, provocative atmosphere wherever I go. I avoid fisticuffs and intoxicants: I prefer lucid, civilized discussion.

drawing, writing, editing, listening, talking, making friends, organizing shows. Sex is a high art which I take very seriously.

I sometimes wonder about this, but rarely get a satisfactory answer. I would guess it's my clothes, my eyes, or my smile which I'm told is a winner though rarely captured in photographs. Usually people are surprised to find out my age, and often ask to see my ID.

I don't know how important this is for finding a match, but seeing as I spend a fair amount of time reading, watching movies, and listening to music, ...

A few writers I've always enjoyed: Céline, Lewis Carroll, Philip K Dick, John Fante, Jean Genet, Astrid Lindgren, Emily Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Juan Goytisolo, Italo Calvino, Opal Whiteley, Mary Shelley, Gilbert and Christopher Sorrentino, Lord Byron, Gaston Bachelard, Mark Twain, Rob Hardin, G. K. Chesterton, John Hawkes, Flann O'Brien, Julio Cortazar, The Marquis de Sade, Rainer Maria Rilke, Novalis, Goethe, Schiller, Emerson, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Rudolf Steiner. I am a comics freak and I also read a lot about parapsychology, esoteric studies, conspiracy and ufo type stuff, and am fairly knowledgeable on these subjects.

Some of my favorite movies: Mr. Arkadin, The Brood, eXistenZ, Videodrome, Eyes Without a Face, The Tenant, Pippi Goes on Board, Eraserhead, Female Trouble, Teorema, The Saragossa Manuscript, Don't Look Now, Hump of the Sado Queen, Galaxy Quest, Mudhoney, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, L'Age d'Or, Los Olvidados, Belle de Jour, Score, Bedazzled, The Curse of Her Flesh, Shampoo, Duck Soup, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, Carnival of Souls, The Decameron, Autobiography of a Flea, Dead of Night, The Fallen Idol, Shampoo, Welcome Home Brother Charles, Spider Baby, Behind The Green Door, Spirited Away, Marketa Lazarova, A History of Violence, Let the Right One In, I Know Where I'm Going!, Salo, Curse of the Demon, The Holy Mountain, Phantom of the Paradise, Curse of the Cat People, Point Blank, Dead of Night, Billy Liar, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein, anything with Edward G. Robinson, Lon Chaney, Sr., Buster Keaton, Charles Laughton, Robert Mitchum, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet, Veronica Lake, Julie Christie.

Owning 4000 LPs makes it hard to choose, but I really love The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Byrds, The Hollies, Big Star, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Move, Queen, Os Mutantes, Scott Walker, Colin Blunstone, Nick Drake, John Cale, Pink Floyd, The Monkees, Jethro Tull, The Beach Boys, Hawkwind, Steve Hillage, Bo Hansson, Gong, Faust, Agitations Free, Amon Duul II, Cluster, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Fairport Convention, Donovan, The Shaggs, Sly & The Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Curtis Mayfield, Family, Genesis, Yes , King Crimson, Van der Graaf Generator, Peter Hammill, Caravan, Hatfield and the North, Camel, Magma, Le Orme, Slapp Happy, Durutti Column, Wire, Public Image Ltd., John Foxx, The Smiths, Joy Division, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Echo and the Bunnymen, Blondie, Chrome, DOME, Devo, The Go-Betweens, Dungen, The Cardigans, Belle & Sebastian, Astor Piazzola, Charles Mingus, Slim Gaillard, Alice Coltrane, Lonnie Liston Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Popol Vuh, Captain Beefheart, Robert Wyatt, Ange, Heldon, Brian Eno, The Cure, Ultravox!, Tuxedomoon, Au Revoir Simone, Miranda Lee Richards, The Four Seasons, Iggy Pop, Syd Barrett, Ray Davies, Buzzcocks, Small Faces, The Monks, The Young Marble Giants, and so on... Really, I could go for pages. Music is very important to me, and I appreciate popular and esoteric music equally.

More than six, and not in any particular order: It's hard to imagine life without friends, beautiful music, great books and movies, creative freedom, delicious food, clean air, love and sex, and magnificent clothes.

I must say, I'm really tired of people whose only interests are 'all things dark and morbid' ... you know: serial killers, medical atrocities, black magic, fascism, human ugliness, gloom and doom and crap. Give me a break! If this is you, I'm sorry, but you're a drag. Don't get me wrong, I lived through the 1970s & 80s, avidly studied all forms of bullshit, and probably know more about that stuff than you. I love weird, screwy things that most people don't understand or care about ... But who in their right mind builds an identity around sheer negativity? The 'dark side of human nature' is not cool or romantic; it's stupid, ignorant, greedy, slothful, and cowardly.

Likewise, I find the current neo-atheism disenchanting and misguided. I respect others' right to believe what they like, and more to the point, I'm interested to know why. I often get along better with agnostics and open-minded atheists than with many religious people I meet, but I usually find the god they reject bears no resemblance to the one I believe in. Basically, another name for god is the cosmos. The physical universe is god's body, and we each reflect facets of god's true being in our inner, unseen world of soul. Just because certain religious people and organizations promote incredibly stupid ideas is no reason to get hung up; if you undertake an earnest study of esoteric spirituality, you stand to learn a great deal more about the true human being than you will by studying the hard sciences. You want to talk about stupid ideas? Quite a few "rationally" minded atheists (including a few scientists and scientific engineers) have gotten us in a hell of a mess in recent decades! Do we blame atomic bombs, nuclear meltdowns and global warming on science? Of course not (and I'm not saying we should), but these things didn't arise out of spiritual/religious thinking, did they? Continuing to explore the scientific mode of cognition is absolutely necessary to avert our current disaster course, but we also require moral and spiritual knowledge to ground this pursuit. This can only be happen when science and spirituality are brought into play together.

So, now that I have you thinking my way, let's elaborate our shared outlook a bit further: To effectively subvert the prevalent world-view—which is reductive, reactionary, morbid, dogmatic, materialistic, technophiliac, and otherwise wrongheaded in countless ways—we must replace it with something better. Human beings are social creatures and we cannot survive separate from the truth. If our lives be theater, we should perform with dignity, stagecraft and a respectful wink to the almighty. Yea, so be it.

Ah, but enough about me! ... Well, on second thought, here is some more about me:

having fun and making sure everyone around me has fun.

I have started an Obedience School for Disobedient Girls. Strong, smart, independent women only need apply. The ideal student: You are not afraid of life, you are eager to experience all that your womanhood has to offer, and you are ready to express it in the appropriate setting. You enjoy making yourself attractive and feeling feminine, and, though aware of sexism, you like being objectified in the right context, and you wish more guys knew what they wanted and did it without apology or anxiety. You expect men to be considerate, polite, respectful, stylish, and open-minded, but—most importantly—you are tired of making all the decisions in bed. You can stand your ground in conversation and enjoy lively discussion, but you are flexible and not argumentative. Your fondest desire is to be manhandled by a dominant gentleman—gentlemanhandled. You are guided by your heart and mind, and you recognize that your body is a gift to enjoy. You strive to improve yourself, but do not fret over things you cannot change. In short, you are a woman of the future.

You don't phrase every sentence as if it were a question. (I believe it's called uptalk.)

You don't use the word 'random' when you mean arbitrary, surprising, unexpected, or unknown.

You don't mind standing and walking on my right side most of the time.

You occasionally drool, or think you might enjoy drooling on occasion.

You've read my entire profile and think, "I need to know this guy!"