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My self-summary Propose an edit

I am a musician, writer and artist ...and believe it or not, that can be a curse most days. There's nothing quite like one creative urge distracting you from another-- especially when you need to be working on the latter. People sometimes don't know how to classify me. I enjoy sometimes, but hate it mostly.

Here's my portfolio, for the curious: http://web.mac.com/roxby

I appreciate communication in its most direct form. I like hard, glaring truths. I prefer criticism. I prefer rationality, yet, I feel deeply. I like details. I like being analytical. I like being intuitive. I like digging in and seeing what makes things tick. I like language, but I feel that we deny ourselves, and our lives and our realities too much by adhering slavishly to labels and symbols (in spite of my being a slavish Symbolic Interactionist). We might try, instead to accept our contradictions— to believe in gray, and the danger of black and white. We should find the things that we love, and plumb the depths of them. figuratively or literrally. Create. Be more than one thing.

A few notes on sexuality: I have a strong proclivity for bisexual boys; and no, I do NOT believe that they just "need some time to come out of the closet" or "need to choose." I very nearly put Bisexual for my own preference on this site, but the truth remains that my attraction to men is strongest, and I could really only be satisfied in a relationship with a male. In terms of sexual politics and gender roles, I find that people who are bisexual echo my own beliefs and preferences most often. My best friend in the entire world, (and, for the sake of disclosure, my first girlfriend) is a queer (bisexual) polyamorous gender theorist. I love and respect her, and she was a definite proponent of these theories during my formative years.

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

Freelancing as a composer and graphic designer. (Graphic design pays the bills far more dependably, for the record) Working hard on seekrit projects that no one will ever see. or everybody will. Taking care of my aging grandmother. (Try it. It's not for the faint of heart.)

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I'm really good at Propose an edit

Writing. Drawing. Digital Painting Composing. Photoshop. Using antiquated versions of QuarkXpress. Puzzling at the new ones. Cooking. Analyzing things. Being frustrated. pissing people off when I don't mean to. pissing people off when I do. breaking laptops. (no, really!)

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

Usually, it's my hair, my eyes, or my deceptively outgoing personality. (I am actually QUITE shy.) Nowadays, my shrinking profile.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

My Favorite Books: House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski; Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, Rant - Chuck Palahniuk (In that order); Another Roadside Attraction - Tom Robbins; No Great Mischeif - Alistair MacLeod; The Wilding of America - Charles Derber; Night - Elie Wiesel; Ceremony - Leslie Marmon Silko; Knowing When to Stop - Ned Rorem; Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman; Poems by T. S. Eliot, Federcio Garcia Lorca, Rumi

My Favorite Movies: Dancer in the Dark, Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Hours, American Beauty, Life as a House, Good Will Hunting, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Cruel Intentions, Dolores Claiborne, The Incredibles, Lilo and Stitch, Favorite Television: True Blood, Lost, Veronica Mars (RIP), BSG. Wonder Falls (RIP), Firefly (RIP). (Why do I love the shows that can't stay on the air? WHY?????)

My Favorite Music: Gustavo Santaolalla, Psapp, Regina Spektor, Devotchka, Erin McKeown, Jamie Cullum, Frou Frou/Imogen Heap, Dresden Dolls, DeVotchka, Ani DiFranco, Poe, Bjork, Massive Attack, Broken Social Scene, Atoosa, Miranda Sex Garden; Eric Whitacre, Samuel Barber, JS Bach; Elaine Stritch, Ella Fitzgerald, Joni Mitchell, Nina Simone

My Favorite Foods: Anything finely crafted, nuanced and well-thought out. Anything passionately improvised. Subtle flavors. BOLD flavors. Italian, particularly Cuicina Toscana, Mexican, Asian. Middle-Eastern. I must confess, though, that there's nothing quite as satisfying as a greasy, fast food hamburger from time to time.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

Avoiding the hackneyed, if true, air-food-water route, let's list instead, "six things I would rather not do without." (Isn't that what they're really asking anyway?)

A Macintosh. An internet connection. Something to write on. Something to draw with. Something to make noise with. My friends (who are occasionally any and/or all of the previous three items on the list. I sometimes vary the preposition to my own amusement)

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Writing. Class structure. Cycles. Causality. Why Americans have such a stick up their @$$ about most stuff, and how easily they're lead around by the handle. Politics. Plots. Plot structure. Music. Time dilation. The Salem Witch trials. Music. (thinking music and thinking *about* music.) Cylons.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Creating.

Waiting desperately for the next episode and/or season of BSG to start.

(is it 2009 yet??)

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I've had lunch with Chuck Palahniuk, drinks with Slash and Leo Furey and Alistair MacLeod, and hors d'oeuvres with Federika von Stade.

Oh yeah, and I put my shoes and socks on: sock, shoe; sock, shoe.

You should message me if Propose an edit

are intrigued or appalled by what you see here. If you'd follow me into Hell, if only out of morbid curiosity. If you'd like me to vary any of the prepositions I mentioned above with you. If you want to make something with me. If you want to read me poetry, or I, you.

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