I am a terrible spectator. And I have to write longer summaries. Shorter is not always sweeter.

trying to get up earlier

solving problems, first dates, making up words, staying friends, flirting with birds, and exploring boundaries.

this question bothers me, because the answer is naturally mutable. I have the same problem with those damn password reset questions. I leave an answer and couple weeks later when I have forgotten yet another useless password I also can't answer "Who is your favorite president?" or whatever.

I love books, food, music, and movies. I did change the order. Diversity for all of them. People who get stuck on favorites are missing out. Just sayin'.

I also know that some experiences are just better. So instead of favorites how about just quality experiences?

amazing live performances:
* einsturzende neubauten - amazing sonic fabrication
* eartha kitt - it felt like she was singing just for me.
* depeche mode - lights lasers and all that shit
* tom waits - otherworld story hour and variety show
* lords of acid - bumping off the walls!
* sugarcubes - sheer absurdity

Consumption that continues to consume:
* 20' up in a tree eating huckleberries and staining myself while hornets supply the ambient soundtrack.
* In a 60s themed London lounge eating/drinking a cocktail that looks and feels like caviar.
* In a cafe on a side street near the Eiffel Tower eating ravioli covered in a marinara that distorts time and space.
* In a Seattle tapas bar eating foie gras topped with maple ice cream and onion crisps.
* on a beach in Mexico eating a ceviche so good that it still compels me to quest for its doppleganger.

Words that make me want to read, write, or just chat about them:
* _Sometimes a Great Notion_ (by Ken Kesey) - who would believe that logging families were so engaging.
* _The Secret Garden_ (by Frances Hodgson Burnett) - an amazing story of simple liminal experiences leading to rebirth.
* _Evening_ (by Susan Minot) - straight visceral stimulation. super life positive book about a person dying from cancer.
* _The Grapes of Wrath_ (by John Steinbeck) - quite simply the best ending to a book ever.
* _Fools Die_ (by Mario Puzo) - I couldn't put it down, and I just realized that I am pretty sure that Californication is somehow based on it.
* _God Emperor of Dune_ (by Frank Herbert) - it's all about the big picture, baby. Oh, and *no fear*.
* _Botany of Desire_ (by Michael Pollan) - symbiotic relationships with plants?! of course, why didn't I notice that before?
* _Right Hand, Left Hand_ (by Chris McManus) - symbology bound up with physiology, what could be cooler?
* _The Happiness Hypothesis_ (by Jonathan Haidt) - I can defer, distract and instruct, but I don't control the elephant.
* _The Language Instinct_ (by Stephen Pinker) - generative grammars rule my world.

Roller skates, books, family, strangers, sharing, chemistry. and shoes, I shouldn't exclude shoes.

the way everything is connected.

I love kids and I have three daughters that live with me. But they are generally low maintenance and don't affect my social life much.

you can respond to these unanswered OKCupid messages (profile context left to the imagination):
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"my third leg"
gets me in trouble, but my eighth wheel makes for a quick escape.
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"editing is the rule"
Write, remove, distill, refine. Logophilia might be a disease, but editing is the cure.
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"vowel exchange..."
meet consonant exchange:

lick lack luck
sick sack suck
stick stack stuck
trick track truck
knick knack k'nuck

whose brains did you eat? It's ok, I totally date zombies; at least they are animated. And I totally know how to keep a corpse feeder sated.
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"freak gasoline accident"
so are you brokering or just breaking?
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"simplicity"
a laconic and compelling profile.

I like to make up grammars. I currently suggest adding abusive case. it would be like the accusative but with a little more follow through.
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"equilux"
The equinox and a full moon is makes for brutal change. I became a socialite of cthulhu proportions and have already devoured two of my peer groups this week and left a swath of devastated egos. Right now I have a hunger that only a generation of past lives will curb.

time to light my wheels...
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"semicolons"
make me hot. I am just learning how to high five, but I know you would be a good addition.

PS - I enjoy chess, but can't take it seriously.
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"omni-flavorous"
Brussel sprouts are all in the preparation. I had some amazing melt in your mouth bacon roasted sprouts. I always give a vegetable a lot of chances, but there has to be some variety in the preparation.
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"it's blurry"
the fragment on your arm, I mean, I can't read it. I have a compulsive urge to know what words people use. Especially in a permanent way.
PS - *love* and *grace* are on my forearms.
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"that voice"
...the lovely call of the jade crow. how sweet is your vitriol; how rhythmic your condemnation.

I would swoon from your rejection...
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"failure is part of the pleasure"
article about important it is that we make mistakes.

and a very interesting book about perfectionism:

I found it relevant to almost every self-sabotage event I have ever been through.
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"serrated"
yer teeth are pretty. so sharp and menacing...
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"superficial"
I think it must have been that first time I saw Madonna on Solid Gold. I was so young and impressionable and her wig was just so beautiful. I almost cried when she took it off. ;)

anyway, beautiful, just beautiful.
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"lethal vs. nonlethal"
I understand about bugs. I ignore to a point and when they get hostile I swat a hornet out of the air and sweep it off to the side. It's just practical, right?
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"fluorescence"
black lights make everything better. Especially teeth, which take on an egalitarian supernatural feel.
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"ambiturner"
"You've got a lot of talents kid, but hanging a louis just aint one of them."
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"brutal choppers"
squirrels are funny but angry squirrels are even funnier. When I was a kid I was mugged by a bunch of squirrels for my apple. There was a lot of posturing and adrenalin, but it was the squirrels that won.

I am guessing that you leave small rifts in the time space continuum. I would gladly buy dinner if I get to see a young Spock stepping out of an alley.