good guy here looking for that special connection, spiritually, physically, emotionally, and intellectually. I am creative and artistic as well analytical and logical. I like to see myself as a good mix of thinker, truth seeker and doer.

I am a classically trained violist currently freelancing in NYC. I am also active in human rights, environmental protection and animal welfare issues locally and globally.

making people smile, making music, lending a hand, organizing, living simply, gardening, rearranging furniture, scrabble, procrastinating, drawing, listening and making connections with others.

that I look younger than my years and my calm and affable nature

currently toggling between Tom Regan's 'A Case for Animal Rights' and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated

here are my favorite authors vs. specific books:
David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, Roberto Bolano, Carson McCullers, Tolstoy, Annie Proulx, Miguel Ruiz, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ian McEwan, Murakami, Tom Regan, my Dad's books

movies
to name a few...anything Star Trek, Countercorriente (Undertow), The Fifth Element, Moonstruck, I am Love, Kinsey, Ice Age, Elizabeth, Europe-Europa, Steel Magnolias, Traffic, Central Station, In America, Dead Man Walking, Beautiful Thing, Three Kings, American Beauty, Maria Full of Grace, Finding Nemo, Muriel's Wedding, Departure, A Separation, Talk to Her, Priest, The Color Purple, Romeo & Juliet, Boys On the Side, Fargo, Maurice, Transamerica, Moulin Rouge, Little Miss Sunshine, Einayim Pkuhot (Eyes Wide Open), Boys Don't Cry, Earthlings, The Matrix, Frozen River, Billy Elliot

music
a wide range of "classical" from Monteverdi, Dufay, Gesualdo, Vivaldi, Bach, Corelli, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, to Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Bruckner, Sibelius, Debussy, Mahler, Barber, and Glass to name a few. Oh and I suppose I like modern stuff too, just that I study and perform the aforementioned so much it's just what's in my head. music is universal and I often find that what begins as aversion can turn into a love affair.

food
plant based power! compassionate cuisine of all kinds

adaptability over absolutes within reason but if I must, I'd prefer not to live without at least a few of these...honesty, peanut butter, compassion, vibrato, trust, recycling, love

- how to live a principled life
- whether I should completely rearrange my living room (again)
- coming back to my breath and letting go
- as of late, swimming and my 2013 triathlon goal
- how to persuasively, articulately, and compassionately respond to questions on why I'm vegan
- where my Dad is
- transporter technology
- hot Dads in my neighborhood (seriously ridiculous)

if not rehearsing or performing somewhere in NYC, catching a movie or chilling with friends over a bowl of hummus, or geeking out with Star Trek marathons on netflix

vulnerability is both a beautiful and terrifying prospect

any of the above resonates