I love to daydream I was conceived in a world where procreation is not limited to two individuals and I'm the love child of Ursula K. Le Guin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hayao Miyazaki, John Cage and Remedios Varo. I'm not sure what I would look like, but I'm certain I would be fabulous. Not that I'm not fabulous right now, but fabulous in a different way.

I love to read and I’m usually juggling three or four books at a time. I love science fiction and some fantasy. I love art and can easily spend an entire day at The Art Institute, MCA or Cultural Center. I gravitate towards the Avant-Garde but can extract favorite works from all the isms found throughout the late 19th century and onward.

Floral scented anything makes me swoon. I need more lavender scented soaps in my life. A super cute pair of sneakers is way sexier than high heels as far as I'm concerned. I love french fries with my pixa (that's exactly how I pronounce it too).I love cookie soup--especially in the winter. I love Adobe software and all things Apple even though I still don't own an iPhone or iPad. Sigh. I'm excited about CSS3. I'm gradually learning JavaScript and right now I have a love/hate relationship with the language. I want to learn After Effects and Maya. I want to learn more about music, art, psychology, philosophy, history, astronomy, theoretical physics.

I love my overly affectionate yet incorrigible orange tabby kitty.

I love pixels, vectors, pigments and substrates. I have a BFA in graphic design which has yet to yield any results. I'm currently a full time online graduate student studying web design & new media. I consider myself a struggling graphic designer, an aspiring web designer and a closet “artist”. I daydream constantly about making "serious" art and especially sound art. I noodle on the guitar at least once a day. I doodle constantly and sketch fleeting ideas for all sorts of creative endeavors I hope to undertake after I'm done with grad school.

I despise homophobia, sexism, religious fanaticism, a lack of respect for animals, extreme political ideology of any kind and irrational, erratic, inconsiderate, and mean spirited behavior.

Vegetarians, atheists, introverts, neurotics, geeks, nerds and just plain awkward and quirky individuals get plenty of extra points as far as I'm concerned. These truly are my people gosh darn it!

Temporary design whore, grad school and honing my dorkable ways.

Graphic design, web design, creative stuff. If you don't believe me check out my online portfolio at: www.birdonbicycle.com. Let's hear it for shameless self promotion. Yay!

Not acting or looking my age apparently. A 35 year old co-worker was until recently under the impression I was 2 or 3 years younger than her.

I want to say my smile but it's probably my bald head. I think I have a decent smile but seriously, who can ignore the glare of a well polished chrome dome? No one. As far as bald heads go, I'd like to think mine is pretty nice. At the risk of sounding vain, I'm confident it can give Patrick Stewart a run for his money.

Books:
Persepolis, Maus, Childhood's End, the Earth Sea series, Catcher in the Rye, Frannie and Zooey, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Meggs' History of Graphic Design, A Confederacy of Dunces, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series, The Hobbit, LOTR, War and Peace, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Don Quixote. I'm also anxious to dive into the works of J. G. Ballard, Paul J. McAuley, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joe Haldeman, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas Pynchon, Walter M. Miller, Jr, Alex Ross' The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Chip Kidd, more Jorge Luis Borges, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Charles De Lint, More James Baldwin, William Gibson, more Isabel Allende, Frank Herbert, Carl Sagan, Harry Turtledove, Stephen Hawking, more Jeanette Winterson, more Scarlett Thomas, Carol Emshwiller...

Movies:
I can’t imagine life without Netflix. I’m constantly maxing out my queue and sometimes I wonder if I’m going to need two lifetimes to watch everything I’ve saved. In any case here are a few favorites: Everything by Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, heck, everything Studio Ghibli puts out is freaking cool. 2001 and 2010. All the Star Wars movies, even the bad ones and I don't care what anybody says, Revenge of the Sith was fucking awesome. Gentlemen Broncos. An Angel At My Table, LOTR, I can't wait for The Hobbit to come out. Rushmore, Best in Show, Fellini's Orchestra Rehearsal, Roma, 8 1/2 and Intervista, All the Star Trek movies, even the weak ones. The Matrix trilogy, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Seven Samurai and Ran. A Town Called Panic, Linda Linda Linda, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Genghis Blues, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Helvetica, Everything by Pixar, Herb & Dorothy, Funky Forest: The First Contact, Mary & Max, Modulations: Cinema for the Ear, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Anything featuring Wallace and Gromit, The Host, Brazil, My Architect: A Son's Journey, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Moog...

Shows:
The entire Stargate and Star Trek franchises, Spaced, Doctor Who, Pushing Daisies, The Kids in the Hall, Samurai Champloo, BSG, Cowboy Bebop, Torchwood, Creature Comforts: The Series, Hyperdrive, Cosmos, Portlandia...

Music:
Explosions In The Sky, Erik Satie, Steve Reich, Tommy McCook, El Ten Eleven, Dirty Three, John Cage, Rachel's, Tropicalia era Veloso, Gil and Costa, Stereolab, Neu!, Can, Isotope 217, Tortoise, Tom Ze, Jorge Ben, The Sea and Cake, Anthony Braxton, Jackie Mittoo, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, John Fahey, Mission of Burma, OOIOO, Astor Piazzolla, Brian Eno, Tone, The Bats, Amon Tobin, Mouse on Mars, Ludwig van Beethoven, The Coctails, Kraftwerk, Robbie Basho, early to mid Wedding Present, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Drake, The Feelies, Velvet Underground, The Verlaines, Claude Debussy, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Sonic Youth: except for everything that came after "Washing Machine", Béla Bartók, Mono (From Japan), Shannon Wright, György Ligeti, Josef K, early Orange Juice, Sofia Gubaidulina, early New Order, The Ex, Sun Ra , Lyn Taitt, Joy Division, Bauhaus, Rodan, Joao Gilberto, King Tubby, Herbie Hancock, Arnold Schoenberg, Fryderyk Chopin, John And Alice Coltrane, Boredoms, Unwed Sailor, June of 44, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, early Tangerine Dream, Russian Circles, Mogwai, Terry Riley, Tussle, Peter Brötzmann, Derrick May, McCoy Tyner, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Don Cherry, Anton Webern, Sneaky Feelings, Krzysztof Penderecki, Thelonious Monk, Camille Saint-Saëns, Dmitri Shostakovich , Archie Shepp, Archers of Loaf, Bobby Hutcherson, early Popol Vuh, La Dusseldorf, Eric Dolphy, Nicole Mitchell, Sergey Prokofiev, Cluster, Pharoah Sanders, Gustav Mahler, Harmonia, Albert Ayler, Maryanne Amacher, Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co., Franz Schubert...

Art & Design:
Remedios Varo, Francesca Woodman, Kasuma Yayoi, Mariko Mori, Takashi Murakami, Gerhard Richter, Jackson Pollock, Peter Saville, Man Ray, Jerry Uelsmann, Maggie Taylor, David Carson, Max Ernst, Stefan Sagmeister, ‪Dorothea Tanning‬, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg...

Food:
Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Indian, Ethiopian, Pizza, French Fries, Tater Tots, Disgusting Movie Theater Popcorn, Middle Eastern, traditional American breakfast food and basically anything with well seasoned Tofu.

• Free will--even if it is an illusion...
• My sanity
• Fully intact mental faculties
• My Kittie, books, music, films, the arts in general
• An evolving sense of identity
• The desire to learn

Working on school projects.

Earn my trust and then we'll talk. Seriously.

• You're creatively or musically inclined, or not
• You're super smart, no exceptions
• We have similar interests, duh
• You're super nice, considerate and understanding, no exceptions
• You're emphatic, and no, not like Deanna Troi silly
• You play or noodle on a musical instrument, or not
• You're emotionally and/or financially stable, or you're working on it
• You have a quirky sense of humor, or a sense of humor in general
• You can match or exceed my dorkable ways