Hello, my name is Christopher. I'm a novelist and short storywriter, and a singer/songwriter.

I'm a curious spirit that never really fit in with any single group - so I have many. I strive to discover the lands and lives around me, looking for the odd kindred spirit. I'm self-confident, yet easygoing and definitely open minded, with the insatiable curiosity to try everything - so my experiences, friends and loves are as varied as can be.

I am a man of unique tastes. I am passionate about the earth, love animals, champion both human rights and civil liberties, travel with wanderlust, consume books, lift weights, and own guns. I believe individual freedom outweighs society's total safety and your personal comfort. I'm romantic, and loving, and can be strong or gentle. I'm quite social, yet enjoy solitude. I'm bi and poly, yet focus on my primary relationship and my art. I am both selective with my wide group of friends, and incredibly accepting of anyone's true self. I'm not contradictory - I'm just not conventional.

I have a great relationship and a writing career that I'm focused on. I'm very selectively open/polyamorous outside of that. My time tends to be full (even when I'm not dating) yet there is always the potential for a great connection. Life starts with friendship and a fiery spark.

I'm devoted to my writing career, as well as my musical avocation. Both mean a lot to me, and a good chunk of my day is spent devoted to it. In addition to this I also 'day job' doing tech and creative writing in the Video Game industry. When I'm done, it's time to escape outdoors into adventure.

My wanderlust has me traveling a month or more out of the year, and I love to drop everything and backpack new cultures for months at a time. I am an explorer of 16 countries: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Columbia, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvadore, Mexico, Canada, and our own US of A (so far).

I often say BURNING MAN is my favorite foreign country because it's so wild and unlike any culture on earth. You will find me there performing, celebrating life and contemplating the new year. Let me know if you plan on being on the playa!

If you find we have much in common, feel free to write and say hi. Who knows, you just may make a new friend, maybe more. ;)

Writing.

I'm not sure, but folks have often told that they've never met anyone like me.

I'd neither expect nor want total compatibility in these things. I enjoy cross-pollination. ;)

(A) Deathbird Stories, by Harlan Ellison, A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannary O'Connor; Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; The Talisman, by Stephen King and Peter Straub; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson; Lizard Music by D. Manus Pinkwater; The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffennegger; Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman; Stories, by T.C. Boyle; Taltos, by Steven Brust; Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk; One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Down And Out in The Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow... Way too much to list here. Reading is part of my work - I read constantly.

(B) Fight Club, Brazil, Blade Runner, Se7en, Sean of the Dead, American Beauty, Kunk Fu Hustle, Spirited Away, Kill Bill, Alien, Silence of the Lambs, Schindlers List, Orgazmo, Being John Malkavitch, Harold and Maude, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Sleepless in Seattle... I tend to follow the careers of David Fincher, Hayao Miyazaki, Quintin Tarantino, The Cohen brothers, and other directors. I don't watch TV, but I love movies.

(C) Tool, Tori Amos, Tom Waits, Jason Webley, Pearl Jam, Puscifer, Muse, Gorillaz, Soundgarden, Dave Matthews, Gogol Bordello, Mike Patton, The Red Elvises, Parliament, Alice in Chains, Pink Floyd, The Black Crows, Claude Debussy, Yoko Kanno, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Set Fire to Flames... I write music, so I listen to everything, especially if it is unusual.

(D) Every strange and wonderful cuisine of the world. My favorites are Mexican, Italian, Argentinian, Indian, Thai, Vietnamese, Brazilian. Peruvian, Hawaiian, Ethiopian, Korean, and Japanese. Many of these I have eaten in their home countries. I love food so much I trained as a chef, and though I don't cook professionally anymore, I still light the flames every day.

If you are looking to tempt me out, you only need utter the word "sushi".

Editors

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Travel - The outer world through which I explore myself in relationship to others. I've traveled 17 countries.

Writing/Reading - The inner world through which I express all that I have known. Writing and sharing words and music is my life.

Friends - Being up to no good in favorable numbers ;)

Sex/Intimacy - The realm of true connection; Intimacy is my favorite space.

Food - The divine state of flavor, richness and spice. The tart of wine, and the sweet savor of eating dessert first.

Animals - Dogs, cats, wolves, and wilder creatures; Lives through which I realize my own wild nature.

activism, adventure, aikido, airsoft, alone time, alternative lifestyles, androgyny, animal rescue, animal spirits, animal training, animals, anime, anthropomorphics, astrophysics, authors, backpacking, bare feet, BDSM, belly buttons, bisexuality, body piercing, bodysurfing, books, boyfriends, burning man, camping, candles, cats, children, composing, conversation, cooking, cuddling, dance, dogs, earth, environment, erotica, exploration, family, finance, flannery o'connor, flirting, foreign cultures, foreign films, forests, freedom, friends, gardening, girlfriends, guitar, guns, hair, harlan ellison, hiking, hobie 16, honesty, honor, horses, hugging, hugs, intellect, intimacy, investing, journeying, kids, kissing, learning, leather, libertarian, long hair, love, magick, making out, meditation, meeting new people, money, monogamy, motorcycles, mountain biking, music, musical instruments, musicians, mythology, naked, native american, nature, nookie, novelist, npr, nudity, pagan, pansexuality, passion, polyamory, quantum physics, queer, reading, red cross, redwoods, relationships, renaissance faires, road trips, romance, sacred sexuality, sailing, sake, scotch, search and rescue, self, sensuality, SEX, shamanism, shooting, simple living, singing, snorkeling, snuggling, songwriter, songwriting, spanish, spirituality, surfing, sushi, tantra, teaching, thunderstorms, tom waits, tori amos, totem animals, touching, touring, travel, voluntary simplicity, weight lifting, wine, wolves, writer, writers, writing, yoga...

A) Holed up in creative space, reading, writing, singing.

B) Out doing crazy things with my friends that you only hear about in urban legend. Somebody has to do it.

I'll try *anything* once.

...You are looking for a clever and interesting friend to show up in your world so we can explore it together.

Likewise I'll message you if I sense you enjoy the extraordinary, take the path less traveled, try new things, aren't afraid to walk alone, have an open mind, a loving heart, and most of all, love the thrill of adventure.