Tangerines don't come easy.
If you ever reach total enlightenment while you're drinking a beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. - Jack Handy
Something about me--
I come from MA and CO, USA.. live in San Francisco, CA. born: Nov. 1979
Graduated from Harvard with A.B's in Psychology and in VES (Visual and Environmental Studies)
for a living I have been a climbing guide, an artist and photographer and currently work as a managment consultant.
Hobbies: Photography, Painting, Rock Climbing, Snowboarding, Ice Hockey,
Triathalon
Favorite Sport: Snowboarding
Favorite drink: good beer.
Interesting anecdotes: I spent a few years travelling around the world...doing more than just being a pair of eyes and a western wallet. I have summitted Denali and been to 23K feet in India. I have competed in a professional snowboarding event. I have been on stage at a strip club in
Prague.
I would find it difficult to live without: music, good beer, my passport and
N80 ..mmm.. sweet caffeine. and sushi.. and books... words.. snow and
board.. friends and siblings.. and my dog.
I could do without: bicycle thieves, telemarketers and television.
Favorite musical groups: This is a tough one.. but recently circulated:
modest mouse, radiohead, bob dylan, charles mingus, built to spill, talking
heads, mos def, tribe called quest, common, ween...
Favorite movie: kinda tough. maybe Dead Man? (Jim Jarmusch)
Favorite movie quote: "Teryaki chicken. Tery...aki chicken. Soup?
Soup...sooup...Chicken noodle....? Cookies. Pudding. PUDDING!!!"-
Punch-Drunk Love.
Favorite food: coffee. or coffee heath bar crunch ice cream. or sushi. sashimi..mm raw fish.. or thai food. I like food.
Favorite TV show: Simpsons. not even close.
People tell me I look like: nobody. I have my own special brand of hideous.
My friends would describe me as: genuine. crazy. intense. kind. fun.
intelligent. irreverent.
I am addicted to: caffeine. adrenaline.people.
Favorite board game: The one with the clay that's a kind-of cross between
trivial pursuit, pictionary and charades...
Last great book I read
hard to say... ones where i get lost and forget the world. now reading 'gould's book of fish' and 'gravity's rainbow', recently finished 'foucault's pendulum' (eco). loved calvino's 'if on a winter's night a traveller' and kundera's 'book of laughter and forgetting'.
If I could be anywhere at the moment
neverneverland. no: its early morning. i'm sipping coffee backcountry in alaska looking out at a foot of fresh powder. orrr.. a beach in ton sai, thailand with my toes in the sand looking out at limestone cliffs and turquoise waters.. or maybe just at home, rain hammering the roof, fire, tea, blanket, dog and book..
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| The dark, inacessible recesses of a dearly beloved old pub | Sep 23, 2003 | Dec 31, 2004 |
| ACE Visit | No Posting | Sep 21, 2003 |
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