My friends call me Peypey and I can eat a hotdog underwater. I am a professional data nerd, plant-whisperer, self-deprecating being at ease and unfinished product. I once helped create a community in which we tried to correct some of god's worst mistakes, like the tuba. I find pleasure in novelty, self-examination, hyperbole and delayed gratification. I am a modern gentleman; physically strong, open-minded, reflective, clear-speaking and friend to all four legged furry animals. I lose track of time, drink wine, get chatty, problem solve, talk to strangers, dream about new ventures, yell at my computer and maintain a close relationship with my family. I have been a DJ, a small businessman, a community co-creator, a student of sustainable living and portrait photographer. I've lived in the Bay Area most of my life - SF for the past 11 years.

I aspire to have a positive outlook on life. I was going to buy a book on it, but I figured what the hell good would that do. I love nature. I drove to the beach the other day and I totally rolled the windows down. I was just checking to see if the beach was really full of single people taking long walks hand in hand. By the way, I am totally willing to do that, if I have to. I like being where I am, contemplating my next move, growing vegetables in my backyard, hooping and learning all the things that my body can do. I love the circus arts and spend a couple days a week taking classes focused on aerial skills (trapeze, fabric), acrobatics (tumbling, basing), flexibility and strength training. When I'm not swinging 20 feet above the ground you can usually find me getting down in the kitchen, in front of 20kw sound systems or some stairs. I live on the third floor of a victorian and work on the fourth floor of an office building - so I'm constantly getting down ... stairs. My job is kind of a secret wrapped in a mystery drizzled in secret mystery sauce. Sometimes I wish they would tell me what I am supposed to be doing. But you know, 90% of everything in life is showing up. So far, I've managed to accumulate 3 weeks of vacation.

Talking like a slow playing record, playing pranks without getting caught, biting, maintaining my balance on my hand(s) or feet(s), hamming it up, asking good questions, endlessly reflecting, making funny faces, learning new things, using my hands and losing myself in the moment.

That I'm quite a fetching cad, brimming with optimism and juicy with expression. I don't know - what are you thinking at this point? If you can put your impression into words then you should just skip to the bottom and send me a message. Seriously, do you really want to know what books I've read?

[sad face] This is the section of your profile that I typically skip. I'm really not turned on by a laundry list of things you have read / seen / heard / tasted. To me, this is the kind of stuff that you share in person. What's important is that you have been deeply affected by great music, literature, theater and food. Having said this, I will digress into a stream-of-consciousness retelling of various art of note that I have consumed in my lifetime. [/sad face]

Books: Oreck and Crake, Cradle to Cradle, Awakening to the Sacred, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Snowcrash. Movies: I love character driven films that you can watch many times and still get something out of them. I have an enormous movie collection and my favorite directors are Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and the Coen brothers. Shows: The Producers, Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables. TV: Sherlock, Deadwood, Northern Exposure, Six Feet Under, Farscape, Firefly, The Mighty Boosh, Luthor. Music: Bonobo, Pretty Lights, Radiohead and Tipper. Radio: This American Life, Radiolab, The Moth, A Praire Home Companion. Foods: Bar Crudo, Nopa, Town Hall, Salvadorian pupusasas and eggs sunny side up.

Navel gazing time to contemplate prosy answers to profile questions, a mind that craves new ideas, ears for consuming music and other people's wisdom, a heart for family, lips to give good conversation and a body to be my vessel throughout this voyage.

Thinking I'm thinking too much, how quickly I would regret getting forearm tattoos, transactive memory, how long I can go without doing my laundry, am I drinking enough water and how much I respect women. After all, if it weren't for women, we'd all be men.

I am capable of performing one or more of the following activities on a typical Friday night:

Exercising my mouth with friends over a meal
Making shapes to syncopated rhythms
Soaking at Essex
Bringing chaos to order

It is unpossible for me to disguise a blush. I secretly like these unguarded moments despite the momentary embarrassment.

This is the section in your profile I read first. Too many OKC daydreams have been interrupted by lengthy or overly specific wish lists. What I want is for you to be a playful, expressive learning machine. That you are attracted to men who make you laugh, are engaging and thoughtful. But most of all, you have the capacity and confidence to send a message instead of waiting to hear from me.