**DISCLOSURE: Thank you OKCupid you have nabbed me a man...I played very little influence; it was really all you. That being said if you proceed to read my profile it's on a "friend" basis now**

I love self deprecating humor that is in truth based on a person's deep-seated inner confidence. I enjoy well held conversations - the uncanny ability to exchange in mutual listening and speaking - philosophical debates of human nature, existence, math, science, art, sprinkled with facetious pop culture references. At the same time, the comfort to exist without saying anything.

A chameleon, the ability to comfortably fit into a myriad of social or environmental situations.

I like to people watch, but I'm not sure how much others appreciate it.

I enjoy nature, traveling, hiking, cooking, eating, exercising, talking, listening, good films, massages, great art, listening to music, making music, logic puzzles, board games. I like to have more to do than time to do it. I am competitive, but more out of a personal standard.

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• tiki38

Contemplating what I'm doing with my life

It involves knives, no I'm not a chef of any kind except at home

This one I'll save for when we have a discussion

Boasting.

No particular order.
1. Dancing
2. Painting, Drawing, Sculpting, Ceramics, Crafting etc.. use your imagination...but I haven't learned woodworking or glass work/blowing...YET
3. Selling
4. Giving Talks/Speeches, performing
5. Making lists ;)
6. I see dead people
7. *censored stuff*...wink wink nudge nudge
8. Spooning (post #7)
9. Being an Arm Trophy
10. Singing in public...but I'm no good
11. Making people tell me their deepest darkest secrets
12. Cooking
13. Having an expensive palette
14. Organizing
15. Being chill
16. Swimming
17. Scrabble

Things I'm NOT really good at
1. Understanding most human malice, but I do get it sometimes
2. Skiing when it's snowing - hehe, last time I was on the slopes I got all disoriented and fell over. (vertigo?)..then skied off a small cliff...but if it isn't snowing watch out!

The baby fetus on my head (hope you know the reference)

My smile?...I tend to smile at people whether or not they're expecting it...My sexy cat eyes, rraaaawlll...I don't know because I'm not someone else!

And is this physical or mental/personality things people notice?

I've been told I'm a good listener and also that I'm a people person.

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini
BOUND AND COVERED: I'm currently reading 5 books at once or something silly like that - it's a living animal that changes regularly
*Kurt Vonnegut* - everything that I've read
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Catcher In the Rye - JD Salinger
Losing Moses on the Freeway
Shakespeare
The whole "Self Help" genre - por ejemplo How to Win Friends and Influence People, Think and Grow Rich, Failing Forward, Who Moved My Cheese? and a myriad of others
The Art of Happiness -Howard Cutler and the Dalai Lama
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and it's all Small Stuff
Herman Hesse - Siddhartha, Damien
Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
Roahld Dahl -everything he's ever written
OK - non sequitur - Clive Barker (trashy horror fiction and fantasy stuff) Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, Everville, The Damnation Game, The Hellbound Heart, The Thief of Always, Books of Blood (vol 1-3), Cabal, The Lord of Illusions
Sci-Fi in general - Isaac Asimov, HG Wells are a couple
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
George Orwell
Picture books...no, really...it's the artist in me OK?
Ralph Waldo Emerson is brilliant methinks
Beowulf - random
Short stories too
A Brief History of the World is sitting on my bookshelf, but I haven't read it yet
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Mock a Mockingbird (logic puzzles)
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The Giving Tree
A bunch more, I'll get back to you

MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTS: The Fifth Element, The Sixth Sense, Lucky Number Slevin, (pause, notice joke) FIGHT CLUB, Children of Men (the acting was mediocre, but I love what it purported), Forrest Gump, WAR Inc, Mississippi Burning, The Little Mermaid, Bond everything, Batman everything, The Matrix, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Slum Dog Mil., Princess Bride, Shawshank Redemption, What the Bleep Do We Know?, Signs, Southpark The Movie, Bond movies, FANTASIA, Good anime, pretty much anything that Tim Burton has produced - especially The Nightmare Before Christmas, Wedding Crashers, Anchor Man, Amelie - since they threw it in as an example, The Professional, The Departed, Oldies (black n white w/ Fred Astaire n Giner Rogers type stuff), The Wizard of Oz, The Wiz, The Last Unicorn, Chicago, The Neverending Story, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Little Miss Sunshine, Thanks For Not Smoking, An Inconvenient Truth, Supersize Me, the list goes on and on...

TV SHOW's of le past - Aeon Flux
Actually, most cartoons

MUSIC: "One good thing about music, when it hits you you feel no pain"
Marley, Janet Jackson (because she sings about naughty things!), India Arie, Jill Scott, trance, techno, hip hop, metal, punk, ska, classical, jazz, FUNK, DISCO, HOUSE, D&B, pop (sometimes I don't respect myself), talk radio, Jack Johnson, M5, country, reggae reggae reggae, Brett Dennan, Alex Gopher, easy listening, alternative, JayZ, Kanye, Death Cab 4 Cutie, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, unending. OH PANPIPE MUSIC! I play the flute, a little piano - love drummers and bassists.

FOOD: I don't do the whole meat thing anymore...for the most part....(don't worry, I don't judge you, eat as much bacon as you want and let me smell it too)...still eat seafood...I buy a lot of organics, at home it's mostly whole foods, but when I go out to eat I don't have the same kind of self control - I'm torn between my love for food and the concepts of "health". I love to share food with people and I love to cook for people. I've been exposed to a broad range of foods at this point in my life and I like it all.

WEBSITES: failblog.org, postsecret.org, sxephil, lolcats, textsfromlastnight.com

Ima go Wizard of Oz on yo a$$ - btw Wizard of OZ as an allegory for the gold standard, agree or disagree?

1. A Brain
2. A Heart
3. A Home (metaphorically speaking)
4. Courage (da nerve)

Wait, ToTo was on the journey...what was he looking for? Adventure! Oooh, and Companionship!!! Or loyalty... servitude? uh oh...

5. Adventure
6. Companionship

All the other generic answers one could fit in here, friends, family, books, love, intellectual people, whips and chains, piercings, high thread count sheets, knives, fruits and vegetables, opposable thumbs, and the little red underlined spell check thing (it says opposable is spelled wrong?).

Things I can do without - generic cable television

"Maybe it ain't sin. Maybe it's just the way folks is. Maybe we been whippin' the hell out of ourselves for nothin'. An' I thought how some sisters took to beatin' theirselves with a three-foot shag of bobwire. An' I thought how maybe they liked to hurt themselves, an' maybe I liked to hurt myself. Well, I was layin' under a tree when I figured that out, and I went to sleep. And it come night, an' it was dark when I come to. They was a coyote squawkin' near by. Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, "The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. And some of the things folks do is nice, and some ain't nice, but that's as far as any man got a right to say. I figgered, Why do we got to hand it on God or Jesus? Maybe, I figgered, maybe it's all men an' all women we love; maybe that's the holy Sperit - the human sperit - the whole she-bang. Maybe all men got one big soul ever'body's a part of. Now I sat there thinkin' it, an' all of a suddent- I knew it. I knew it so deep down that it was true, and I still know it" -Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath

Thinking, terrible paradox

In the X-Files intro it always said "The Truth is Out There" and then the last episode it said "Don't Believe the Lie" - was the lie that the truth is out there?

If a train leaves a station at six pm traveling 40 mph and another train leaves the station heading west at 30 mph, which direction is the first train traveling?

Well is it the 13th or a full moon? - because that will definitely dictate a different response!

It depends, sometimes I go out and sometimes I stay in...hm guess those are the only options really right? Unless there was an earthquake in which case I was taught under a table or IN A DOORWAY is best...

See all the above boxes

Saving Ryan

...=)

IF there was a drummer on the website you would have just heard a ba dum CSHHH succinctly follow by the absence of sound save the crickets in the audience

Ok, really? I use a salt stick for deodorant and I'm going to cast my own wedding rings when that day comes.

(see all of the above and go from there)

You have a great smile, seriously, one of my few/many qualifications

You're confident and well-spoken...really f*in' smart please - a combination of book and street/applicable smart

You're good with your hands

You appreciate a combination of spontaneity and consistency

You like the saying "Judge not lest ye be judged" and not because it's in the bible

You should NOT message me if

You're a much older man than I am...over 35 is pushin' it, but really late 20's is probably what I will go for

You're not physically fit

You're just going to put "Hi, you look pretty" in your message

You're not willing to shave your facial hair for me (yup, that demanding!) and other hair for that matter. I keep myself neat and trim and expect the same courtesy >=)