i'm a gentleman, and a gentle man, and i know my profile is unconventionally quirky, but i definitely have my serious sincere side as well...that's true...unlike my age which i exaggerated, i'm much younger. i'm in the arts but love being around an eclectic mix of people, and some eclectic mixed up people as well.

i'm honest, sincere, funny, loving, fun-loving, compassionate, intelligent, talented, courageous, creative, committed to my personal, emotional, and intellectual growth, and i'm successful in my business.

i enjoy performing, exploring, dining with friends, going to baseball games, meeting new people, traveling, the theater but i also love home...here in new york city, and my original home in northern virginia.

i also like gym training, biking, snorkeling, scuba diving, movies, concerts, dining out with friends, walking in nature...nature walks, biking in the park up and down the west side bike path and all around town, music!.

studying, teaching, learning, loving, performing, reading, sleeping, and spending time with friends...and eating...oh, and gyming, singing, networking, cooking, discovering...

singing, teaching, joking, acting, beach combing, listening, snorkeling, caring for others, catching things before they...hit the ground, hang gliding and bungee jumping watching...big game wrestling...listen, i'm all for that; they're slaughtering elephants by the hundreds right now! put 'em in a ring, mano a...tusk, and let's see who comes out on top!

i don't know...that i showed up?

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Books: TAO TE CHING (Stephen Mitchell interpretation), CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, the first half of MOBY DICK (couldn't make it), THE PRINCE OF TIDES, SHOGUN, LONESOME DOVE, HAWAII, CHESAPEKE, THE KITE RUNNER (and many more upon request).

Movies: BRINGING UP BABY, MY LIFE AS A DOG, TWIN SISTERS, LONESOME DOVE, CINDERELLA MAN, HARAKIRI, DODSWORTH, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, A SHOT IN THE DARK, SOME LIKE IT HOT, ON THE WATERFRONT, and a bunch more.

Music: classical, jazz, traditional pop, raggae, pop.

Food: french, italian, mexican, turkish...latvian, chicken, fish, scallops, oysters, clams, potatoes, asparagus, fruit, Japanese, salads, arugula, apple pie, pumpkin pie, cherry pie...and beets.

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my wonderful friends and family, music, books, food, water...air.

what lao tsu said in stephen a. mitchell's wonderful interpretation of the TAO TE CHING; "stop thinking and end your suffering".

with friends, performing, or takin' in a movie, relaxing at home, watching t.v., going to the gym or a bookstore...

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i had a difficult upbringing...something along the lines of the benjamin button thing, except i was born in the middle and aged outwards. there, i said it, i finally got it out! boy, what a load...off!

(still working on this.)

you feel you want to...