birds especially crows and hummingbirds, oil paint, cheese, goats, NPR, hiking n' biking, thrift stores, cooking, reading, dreaming, cuddles and hugs, bonfires, bioluminescence, Ethiopia, ex-goth, kayaking, kundalini yoga, cats, locavores, gardening, the slow lane, dinners with friends, movies, work-sleep, random creative projects, road trips, camping, INFP, beach days, Jumbo's Clown Room, Junk Food sushi, 6 days out of 7 mellow-- on the 7th an adventure, please!, ozone saturated air after a thunderstorm, scars, sorta shy, left of center in more ways than one, the ocean in all of its moods and seasons

"It is the contents of our days, after all, that make up the contents of our lives."

I start most of my days off with biking or hiking around the hills near to where I live. Cold Springs is a favorite trail, but lately I've been favoring cycling. If I'm lucky, it is also a painting day and I'll spend a few hours working on a bird painting. I'm drawn to the birds that I see most often in my daily life-- not far-flung exotics. I love crows for their intelligence and black glossy beauty and hummingbirds for their delicacy and acrobatics. I garden in a sort of chaotic manner with a strong preference for growing things that can be eaten later on. I'm happy getting lost in a good book. Just started A Home at the End of the World. I loved the movie when I saw it a few years ago and the book promises to be as good if not better. With friends I enjoy kayaking, eating good food, camping, and occasional adventures in L.A. for shows or whatnot.

Perhaps you've surmised from the above that I am much more interested in the present than far-flung goals?

Another Roadside Attraction, The Wind-Up Bird Croncile, Animal Vegetable Miracle, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Rumi, White Oleander, Borges short stories, James and the Giant Peach, The Master and Margarita, House of Incest, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, The Life of Pi and on and on and on...

Charlie Kaufman's screenwriting--Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malcovitch, Chocolat, Delicatessen, Uzumaki, La Communidad, Fight Club, Donnie Darkco, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Cronenburg's films-- especially Crash and Existenz, most of John Waters' films, Most of Tim Burton’s, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Blue Velvet, Pan's Labyrinth, Tetsuo: Iron Man

A Silver Mt. Zion, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Neko Case, Low, Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval, Beth Orton, Cat Power, Velvet Underground, Smog, Gillian Welch, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Pixies, Iron & Wine, Sarah McLachlan, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, The Wet Spots, Here, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Pinback, Set Fire to Flames, Devotchka, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, David Bowie, Radiohead, Rowland S Howard, Tool, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, and in the past year it seems like the last vestiges of my angry and loud early 20's taste have drifted and now I find the most pleasure in slowcore and longform atmospherics.

I'm a long habituated vegetarian (actually more of a pescatarian, but that is a hideous sounding word, isn't it?) with a lot of admiration for those who try to embody locavore and slow food ideals. I love to cook and eat. Favorites include: pizza, anything with a ton of cheese, "junk-food" sushi, spicy, mexican, italian, new.

I tend to think myself in circles. I prefer to experience and feel because of this issue.

Starting things off with a coffee around 6pm to counteract that I go to bed ridiculously early most other days of the week.

Those people you catch picking their noses while driving on the freeway? I'm one of them.

your name begins with "L", today is Tuesday, you own a spork, your bouts of wanderlust happen only occasionally but with surprising intensity, you enjoy a good cry while watching a movie