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rook1984

36 / M / Straight / Single

Portland, Oregon

His Details

Last Online
Today – 6:05am
Ethnicity
White
Height
6′ 2″ (1.88m).
Body Type
Jacked
Diet
Smokes
Trying to quit
Drinks
Socially
Drugs
Religion
Agnosticism and laughing about it
Sign
Virgo
Education
Graduated from masters program
Job
Hospitality / Travel
Income
More than $1,000,000
Offspring
Doesn’t have kids, but might want them
Pets
Likes dogs and has cats
Speaks
English

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My self-summary
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when Portland began to take hold...

I'm aiming for somewhere between bland and accidently entertaining. I think that I've failed on both accounts. I'm an introverted social outcast but I follow not psychological guidelines, thank you very much.

By the by... Damn. So many haters of the 'smoker' out there in PTown. This might take some getting used to. Or perhaps it might be time to consider quitting. It's a hard habit to break. It's a tough nut to crack. It's just one more bad cliche . . .

RaNdOm. My mail is still sent to my old place in Arizona. I continually refer to the MAX as the 'tram' because that's what the lightrail in Amsterdam is called. I prefer cats over dogs. I've recently discovered the wonder that is the Whole Foods goat cheese stand. All of my literary heroes appear to be dead now. Van Gogh is my favorite artist. I hate the heat. I miss drinking Irish Car Bombs. I'm jonesing for a new John Waters' flick. I'm procrastinating from developing plot lines and outlining chapters because it's hard to see much of anything from behind the brick wall I've just hit. But that's just this week.

Oh yes, I confuse people. And by people, I mean myself.

Girls with glasses, black tea, and things that go bump in the night (so many possibilities!) are all pretty damn rad. As are geeks, punks, nerds, goths, freaks, dweebs, librarians, bibliophiles, aspiring filmmakers, writers, artists, fallen Catholics, Irish chicks who drink Sake, and people who just generally don't suck.

I like wandering, people watching, hanging out in the snow, reading, writing, 'rithmetic, blah blah blah...I like a lot of stuff. And I dislike some stuff too. It's up in the air sometimes. More cliches.
What I’m doing with my life
Semi-recently transplanted into an Oregon state. Writing a novel. Thinking about quitting smoking. Finding balance. Doing my best to Keep Portland Weird. Searching for something, anything, everything!

Working the overnight shift at a hotel right now and settling back into Oregon after a hiatus of over a decade since the last time I lived in this State.
I’m really good at
talking. listening. procrastination. sloth. gluttony. amusing self-deprecation. getting along really well with animals (I'm like a universal pet whisperer or something). melting objects with my mind. watching The Big Lebowski AGAIN! baking pretty rad-ass gluten-free goods [scones even]. being pale and therefore only half a supervillain. pulling out random and seemingly useless information from my ass. word jazz behind the bongo stylings of Maynard G. Krebs (if the mood strikes). listening to oingo boingo.

You can feel free to call me a geek except that I don't hang out at carnivals biting the heads off live chickens for a captive standing audience. Not anymore at least. I do that shit in private now...
The first things people usually notice about me
1. Your eyes are so blue. [are they? i suppose that depends on your definition of 'blue']

2. Why are you wearing sunglasses on a completely overcast day? [I was weened on Arizona, unfortunately. It's instinct now to associate all forms of nature with polarized lenses]

3. . . . I would include more examples but people usually don't announce all these things they notice about me. Most people don't narrate their lives out loud and in public, unless you hang out around the Burnside bridge a lot. But they should. Everyone should. It would sure make things more entertaining for the rest of us...you can't make this shit up.

4. I have no idea - I'm just making these up as I go...
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Wonder Boys - The Stranger - Strangers on a Train - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Naked Lunch - Ishmael - Survivor - The Metamorphosis - The Shining - Slaughterhouse Five - Post Office - Factotum - Smoke and Mirrors - Let The Right One In - The Road - The Contortionist's Handbook - God Bless You Mr. Rosewater - High Fidelity - Jesus' Son - Brave New World - Misery - Dermaphoria

Exit Through The Gift Shop - Evil Dead II - Shaun of the Dead - Taxi Driver - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Juno - Adventureland - The Devil's Rejects - Ninth Gate - Sleepy Hollow - Up In Smoke - The Nightmare Before Christmas - No Country For Old Men - Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Better Off Dead - Black Dynamite - Giant - Five Easy Pieces - Parenthood - The Big Lebowski - Fantastic Mr. Fox - As Good as It Gets - Apocalypse Now - Hot Fuzz - Dog Day Afternoon - Pineapple Express - The Foot Fist Way - The World According to Garp - Iron Man - Sherlock Holmes - The Third Man - M - Dial M for Murder - Strangers on a Train - Vertigo - Psycho - Waiting... - Valley Girl - Just One of the Guys - One Crazy Summer - Mulholland Drive - Zombieland - 127 Hours - The Social Network - The Town - Inception - Shutter Island - Crazy Heart - Blues Brothers - Suspiria - Halloween - Misery - Machete! - Hobo With a Shotgun

Dexter - Twin Peaks - Black Books - Community - Californication - Deadwood - The Young Ones - Absolutely Fabulous - Breaking Bad - Fringe - Spaced - Eastbound & Down - Bill Maher - Curb Your Enthusiasm - Modern Family - Top Chef - 30 Rock - The Office - The Simpsons - American Dad - Family Guy - House - Boardwalk Empire - Mad Men - Hustle - Bored to Death - Weeds - Arrested Development - Portlandia - Shameless - Wilfred - Louie - 2 Broke Girls - The Walking Dead - Work of Art - American Horror Story

Tom Waits - Flogging Molly - Oingo Boingo - David Bowie - Garbage - Fiona Apple - Fugazi - Circle Jerks - Sublime - Social Distortion - Joy Division - Siouxsie And The Banshees - Tool - Fear Factory - Fear - D.I. - Pennywise - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Dresden Dolls - Pigface - The Pogues - The Smiths - The Decemberists - Bad Brains - The Vandals - Panic! At The Disco - Public Image Ltd. - The Sex Pistols - X-Ray Spex - Mos Def - Thelonious Monk - Nina Simone - Nina Hagen - Patti Smith - Bob Dylan - Leonard Cohen - Arlo Guthrie - Woody Guthrie - Herbie Hancock - PJ Harvey - Bauhaus - Dalis Car - VNV Nation - Haujobb - Velvet Acid Christ - Death Cab for Cutie - The Velvet Underground - Tin Machine - Angelfish - Rise Against - Rage Against the Machine - Funker Vogt - The Swans - Kill Switch...Klick - Cole Porter - Charlie Parker - Miles Davis - The Cure - The Clash - Depeche Mode - Nine Inch Nails - Beck - Tones on Tail - Kraftwerk - Cocteau Twins - Gary Numan - Badly Drawn Boy - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Tenacious D - Gustav Mahler - The Beatles - Placebo - Sheep on Drugs - Moby - The Sugarcubes - Brian Eno - NOFX - Bad Religion - Ultravox - Operation Ivy - Dead Milkmen - Madness - Elvis Costello - KMFDM - Poe - Daniel Johnston - Stiff Little Fingers - Dead Boys

I know that it's difficult to tell, but I'm forgetting so much shit in 'these here' lists - there's so much more but this survey is killin' me I tell you!
The six things I could never do without
1. Artistic expression
2. Laughter
3. Vice
4. Women
5. Physical stimulation
6. Mental intoxication
I spend a lot of time thinking about
- how I'm going to bring back "rad" into the modern vernacular.
- the nature of life, death and the $10 haircut
- stuff
On a typical Friday night I am
howling at the moon. Or working. Or away. I always seem to be a million miles away . . .
The most private thing I’m willing to admit
I admit nothing . . .

. . . except that I work the graveyard shift and I don't currently own an automobile. If that's a deal breaker, sorry; better luck next time, Charlie.
I’m looking for
  • Girls who like guys
  • Ages 27–37
  • Near me
  • For new friends
You should message me if
* if anything in this profile has sparked your interest and/or curiousity
* if you like to go bowling while drinking White Russians
* if you have nothing better to do and enjoy driving by accident scenes with eyes wide open - train wrecks apply as well.