There's something exciting about surprising people, especially in this cynical age we live in. I love making people think. So much in this world is taken for granted. I love seeing people opened to new possibilities. Dark, self-effacing humor comes naturally to me, and when I'm feeling light-hearted I revel in the awkward and the absurd.

I have two beautiful children (13 and 8) and am lucky to have a joint-parenting situation with a responsible ex.

I'm kind of moody too. I'll wake up in a silly mood one day, and a serious one the next. On the other hand, I'm generally calm and clear when problems arise.

I'm currently a web and graphic designer. Formerly I was a massage therapist and shiatsu practitioner, and I miss this work, but I haven't had any time for it.

I'm also part of an art collective. We do all kinds of stuff, but our focus these days has been on music. I also do some activism/organizing, including sitting on the editorial board of a local activist rag.

Japanese style karaoke: that's where you go up and make a fool of yourself and not try to sing the song perfectly as if you're on a talent show (eeeeww!).

Masked arm wrestling.

Bodywork. I love working with the body. There's something very zen for me when I'm working with tissue.

Design/direction/production. I love working on creative projects, whether it's a cartoon, a song, a video, whatever...

Philosophy: political, economic, moral, psychological... whatever. I love challenging my own assumptions and learning something new. Don't confuse this with me being wishy-washy: I can be very stubborn. In a society where most people avoid the work of deepening themselves (because you are unlikely to be rewarded for depth outside of your immediate social circles), I can be confident bordering on arrogant. At the same time, I am very self-critical.

No idea. Depends in what context you meet me. I embrace human nature as contradictory, and am comfortable being wild and fun sometimes while being reflective and restrained at other times.

I'm interested in basically all creative mediums. I love music from Miles Davis to Aphex Twin, Portishead to Santigold, Ibrahim Ferrer to Erykah Badu, dead prez to Kate Bush... but my first love was electronic music with a dark aesthetic: albums like Depeche Mode - Violator and Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral. If I'm in the mood, I could go dancing anywhere; whatever is playing; I want to revel in it: hip hop, reggae, jazz, jungle, whatever, but again, I'm especially at home at an industrial club. Hip hop probably comes in second for dancing :)

I looooove books. From Russian literature (Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn) to sci-fi (William Gibson and Philip K Dick), poetry (Kim Addonizio and Borges), political analysis (Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Chris Hedges), and Burroughs, Don DeLilo... Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" is a favorite, as is "Carnage and Culture" by Victor Hansen. I think those two books compliment each other very well, along with Zbigniew Brzezinski's "The Grand Chessboard"... Skinny Legs and All, Cloudsplitter, Anna Karenina... TCL/Hippo Club's Quantum Mechanics Adventure ... yum yum yum eat em up books!!!

Movies: Seven Samurai, Mulholland Dr, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Life Aquatic, The Science of Sleep, Matrix, Rurouni Kenshin, Planet Earth, Everything Everything, Edward Scissorhands, City of Lost Children, The Wall, Requiem for a Dream... Mostly I'll watch whatever you (or my kids) want me to watch. I'm not picky; it's not about the movie, it's about spending time with you. However, I am critical. I will complain about plot holes and cliches afterwards, but it's all in good fun---I may also gush about how great it was, but that's more rare.

My kids, books, music, sex, mediums to express myself, time to reflect.

Without considering the physical necessities of course ;)

I go out on Saturdays, Fridays I'm almost always with my kids. Maybe we're playing Munchkin or some other card/board game. Maybe we're watching a movie... maybe we're all doing our own thing in the living room. It's important to me that we spend our time around each other.

Lately I've been practicing on Saturdays. I'm lucky to have a group of talented musicians around me, and am going to start playing live shows very soon.

This isn't really private, but since my profile outs me as overwhelmingly "Drug-friendly" I want to be clear: I don't use anything these days beyond the occasional 420 and alcohol (especially whiskey and tequila).

You like maps. This will make me happy.

You like both being challenged and being challenging (I don't want you to be a pushover, but at the same time you should expect that I will challenge your assumptions). I love expanding my horizons, I hope that you do too.

You like pervy jokes. Especially involving perversions that don't make sense to us.