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therealjared Away

38 / M / Straight / Single

Saint Louis, Missouri

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Ethnicity
Height
6′ 0″ (1.83m).
Body Type
A little extra
Diet
Smokes
No
Drinks
Socially
Drugs
Religion
Sign
Libra and it’s fun to think about
Education
Graduated from college/university
Job
Artistic / Musical / Writer
Income
Rather not say
Offspring
Doesn’t have kids
Pets
Likes dogs and has cats
Speaks
English, Spanish (Fluently)

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My self-summary
Oh, Blah Blah Blah.
Who cares? Not you, right?
Just know: never married, no kids and go straight to the photos.

But if you do care, here's a long winded breakdown; *Takes a deep breath*

I assure you that I am an interesting and passionate man who has a quick laugh and an easy smile.

You're reading the profile of confidently humble man filled with gratitude for the life and experiences that he's been blessed to have.

I think I've had more fun in some years than most people get to have in a lifetime.

I have a black belt in not sweating the small stuff.
I understand that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.
I'm a pragmatic liberal.
I'm straight but not narrow.
I love dreamers and cynics and Amsterdam.
I actually prefer nice hostels to hotels.
I'm usually one of the last people to leave your fun dinner party because we lost track of time gabbing the night away.
I prefer the after party backwash hang out than the party itself.
I feel most at home in honest moments (see after party).
I believe we all have our heads in the gutter. But some of us are looking up to the stars.
I bless strangers when they sneeze even if they are across the room.
I have a man sized ego that is readily kept in check by the ability to laugh at myself. And I laugh hard.
I'm nice to strangers.
I hold doors open for people
I rerack my own weights at the gym, and sometimes even the other guy's too.
I have a sense of curiosity that is positively feline in nature.
I talk to every cab driver I get and ask them about their life unless they have a stoma in their voice box and they need one of them cancer kazoos to talk (this was my last cabbie).
I look at encounters with other people like encountering a fellow explorer and asking about what they have learned and explored. That means I'm going to read entire your profile, journal, and public questions just to satisfy my curiosity about the personality that goes with your picture. Maybe even have a daydream about what it would be like to be in your close circle of people or partnered to you. It comes with my inquisitive nature.
I want to find out all about you and get in your head and stretch out, ease the seat back, put my feet up and just soak up the ambience.

I have a sailor's heart.
I want to travel everywhere and when I get there I want to find all the sights and dive bars so I can show them to you when we go there together someday. So far I've lived a couple of years in Spain and a year in London and several months bouncing around to here and there with a backpack. Ideally I'd like to live in a place for about 2 years before I move on like Berlin, Paris, San Fran, Sydney, Byron Bay and Nimbin, Christiana Denmark, Goa, Barcelona, NYC, the list goes on. However the countries who's cultures are inherently misogynistic I'll skip. I don't go for the marginalizing of 50% of a population. Besides the feminine part is usually the best part:)

Unfortunately I think I'll need another 100 years of life to do all this traveling/experiencing that I want to do. This whole mortality thing has got me bummed. I wish we'd all live as long as jellyfish.

I have a fascination with counter culture and neo-societal endeavors however naive they tend to be. For without these how will humanity ever find a better system than we have now?

When entering a bookstore, I usually make a bee-line for the Sociology section, then Sexuality. However I've sworn off buying new books on these subjects until I've read all the ones I own.

I have a love for all animals and I feel a heavy hearted melancholy every time I drive past road kill on the biways. I generally don't agree with hunting. In fact all my rotten produce gets donated to a wild possum living in a near by thicket in my backyard.
*this endeavor had a twist though*

I often feel like I was born in the wrong time period. I should've been born sometime in the future time after World War III, where humanity is freed from oligarch control and all of planet earth has an egalitarian Bill of Human Rights. Where we universally recognize the inherent dangerous insanity of unyielding fundamental religious dogma. Hopefully then society will have progressed to the point where sexuality and sensuality are acknowledged to have nothing to with morality.

I think baseball is the most boring sport in the world after golf and cricket.
I have no interest in watching sports unless it's sudden death overtime or the end of championship game that's close. Something's got to be at stake for my interest to be spiked. However, going to a baseball game with friends and having a drink and rooting together: I'm all over that.
In Spanish I'd be called a "vivador"...not to be confused with a "vibrador".
I don't know.... we are all just made of star stuff as we all harvest starlight....I am who I am...(rap star voice) I got more facets than a 30 sided die, y'all.
I am libertine, intelligent, and an Iconoclast
What I’m doing with my life
Questioning it.

What am I doing with my life? I just asked myself this today. Ummmm...
....Just sittin' 'round, waiting for the Rapture, I guess. If it doesn't come by 2013 I'm swearing off prophetic religions altogether. Fer serious.
I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
Having a laugh.
Marveling at the warped views of society, then wondering if my own views aren't just as warped.
Planning a trip to Spain and Africa. Tomatina here I come!
Trying to do the right thing.
Battling my id in an attempt to be more magnanimous.
Finding my fortune.
Being happy to meet fellow nomads with good stories to tell.
Taking strangers and travelers to any place I'm living and showing them a good time.
Doing random acts of kindness.
Doing random acts of humor.
Visiting Chicago frequently.

Trying to choose which photos best represent me but still look good It's hard because I can't upload any photos of my cock :(

KIDDING- Apparently having unsolicited cock photos is epidemic on here. I never would have known this phenomena existed if it weren't for those informative profiles.
So in order to stand out like a good guy amongst the inundation of unsolicited prick pics I vow that no one has sent or recieved photographs, drawings, sketches, carvings, or daguerreotypes of my gentle-alia. (Actually scratch that. There was that callback for the Puppetry of the Penis.... ) Then I make the solemn oath not to send penis pics to anyone... unlessyouwantmeto-AND you take me out to dinner. And I'm talking about a REAL dinner at a REAL restaurant ladies, not one of those homogenized cookie-cutter places like: Chili's/Applebee's/TGIfridays/Houlihan's/Senor Williker's Family Feed Lot and Funporium/Olive Garden/Pasta House/ O'Neils. Please, let's live a little, girls.
I’m really good at
I'd say self-deprecating, but I'm not really THAT good at it.
Remembering obscure facts from stories you've long forgotten you told me. Like the time, 7 years ago, at the bar the night you moved out of your old apartment and you said that your boss was sexy in an "Urkel Kind of way".
Helping improve your mood.
Finding the obscure dive bar or forgotten places you never thought existed.
Collecting constantly a menagerie of of wierdos, free thinkers, characters, and fellow iconoclasts in a rogues' gallery of friendship. Care to be added? I'm like fly paper for freaks.
Showing people a great time.
I was going to say snogging but apparently everyone here is so maybe I need to reevaluate my skill level.
Taking photos when people aren't posing.
Lighting up a fucking room.
Making people laugh.
Being a host.
Listening.
Wasting a few hours in a bookstore.
Making cats purr.
Being a good wingman.
Making it to international festivals.
Being misunderstood.
Listening to NPR.
Taking the piddle.
Reading four books at once and then nothing for months
Asking questions.
Owning my Mistakes.
Daydreaming.
Taking the back way to Black Rock City and not getting a flat.
Entertaining.
Playing.
Making "to-do" lists.
Getting lost in foreign cities on purpose.
Blowing smoke rings.
Backpacking.
Empathy.
Procrastinating.
Seeing things in others that not everyone sees.
Meeting new people.
Being able to drink and prolong the happytime feeling without getting Drunk.
Having a cornucopia of knowledge on useless fragments of trivia on a panoply of esoteric topics while concurrently drawing a blank on very necessary things like important dates, names, and how to get back home with out my GPS.
My skills are LEGION!
Favorite books, movies, shows, music, and food
It's gotta be The Giving Tree.
Where the Wild Things Are, A Road Less Travelled, a lot of non-fiction, pop up books, Great Expectations, The Game, Cherohonkees and Food Court Druids,

Movies: American Beauty, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Boys and Girls Guide to Getting Down, Cocaine Cowboys, DOCUMENTARIES, DOCUMENTARIES, DOCUMENTARIES, Listening to commentary, PCU, Say Anything, Pulp Fiction, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, O Brother Where Art Thou, Fargo, Freaks, RollerBoogie, old psychology movies from the 40's and 50's.
I also like foreign films. I wish Hollywood would make more of them. But they don't because of the man.

MUSIC: I like the music people like!

But a quick list would be: The Beatles, Bob Marley, Sting, Beck, Ben Harper, Coldplay, Fat Boy Slim, Manu Chou, Squeeze, Jamiroquai, Zero 7, Moby, 311, Andre Segovia, trip hop, house,fat nickel bags of FUNK, indie, I'm so eclectic on this topic and I always love being introduced to something new.
I also believe the best music to dance to is in gay clubs.
My identity is not music genre based and never really has been. I hope there is more to your identity than your musical tastes.

FOOD: I'm a raw-food-vegan-wannabe. However this is like the guy who smokes a pack a day saying he wants to quit. A lot of this has to do with the factory farming and the treatment of animals and the impact on the environment blah blah blah. But dog gone it, if they aren't the tastiest carcinogens around..... As a rule of thumb I'll try anything at least once, even bugs in Thailand (never stateside). But nothing beats a good meal at an Italian restauraunt with a nice glass of wine...except maybe Spanish tapas with a delicious pitcher of fruit filled sangria.
The six things I could never do without
Just 6? Hmmmhm

You know on second thought I could do without a lot. I mean, people went through the holocaust, I think I could do without my laptop.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
People, politics, the sex, the entertainment business, places I want to visit, languages I want to learn, movie plots, storylines, script ideas. The psychology of dating. Women. Human interaction. Nurture vs. nature.
Lobbying is the greatest threat to democracy.
Trying to figure out a system of governing that protects us from the human animal propensity to abuse their power.
Human animal propensities
Who I would help if I won the current lottery jackpot.
The evils of modern corporate America.
What 3 superpowers I would most like to have. Currently it's immortality, invulnerability and time travel. These things are important to know... don't judge.
What 3 music instruments I'd pick if I could be an expert at them.
What 3 to 5 to 7 languages I would pick to be fluent in if I could.
Etymology.
People who think the world will different or end in 2012 are easily manipulated.
What it was like to live during the Black death of 1348.
I THINK ALOT. Fer serious, it's like a madcap orgy of Bonobo chimps in my brain.

AND what my dog thinks and feels once I leave for the day. Is he sad?

UPDATE He thinks nothing now because he's dead and in doggie hell.
On a typical Friday night I am
Down with the journey.
Riding the wave till it breaks.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit
I was a roadie for Vixen once....once.
I’m looking for
  • Girls who like guys
  • Ages 24–56
  • Near me
  • Who are single
  • For new friends, long-term dating, short-term dating
You should message me if
You just want to meet someone interesting and have a good time. If you have a sense of adventure OR admire one in someone else. If you think we might have good conversation and laughter. If you like eccentric types, enjoy Sociology, respect and enjoy the art of "knowledge seeking" or anything else I said is seemingly interesting to you. You have lots of interesting tales to tell. I want to hear them all and by that I mean have a real conversation and hear your voice and see your face, not endless emails and ichats and texts.

You have a keen sense of intuition.

You are a social worker (they tend to be good people with good hearts who think of others).

You are an Antipodean, fair skinned, or a redhead. These aren't requirements. I've never even known a redhead.

If you saw any grammatical or spelling errors in my profile that need correcting. I like to be right even if it means you teach me what's right. Then I'll be perfect...MWah Hah Hah!

You'd rather have a live conversation on the phone or Skype than several emails back and forth. Then rather quickly have a meet up to test chemistry before we build each other up in our heads. Don't worry, my ego doesn't allow for stalking of the disinterested or unrequited love.

******SIDE NOTE****
If we end up meeting and I find that you aren't attracted to me (I know , crazy right?) I promise not to be a major league douche and be bitter and resentful because you don't "like" me and start being rude and angry in order to save my ego from rejection. If we go out and I experience an ATTRACTION FAILURE to you I promise not to use this as an excuse to be mean and treat you rudely. We can still have a good time hanging out sharing each other's company. No need to ruin the whole night. Who knows, maybe I have friend for you.
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Also, I leave the windows on my computer open for days including OKC. It doesn't mean I'm online nonstop for days. Don't be offended if I don't respond to your IM. I'm just away.

DON"T message me if you text like as much as an eighth grader. Or if take yourself or life too seriously. We are all gonna die someday so let's be merry, for tomorrow we may die.
Not me though, I'm going to live forever.
So far,
So Good! *thumbs up*

You are a sapiosexual, because I sure am one.
Because I loves me some intelligence. In fact, I'd like to frotteurise with your intellect.

Message me if you knew what frotteurise meant.