User Profile

Things I am interested in; WWOOF'ing (although I've never actually done it so I guess I should say the dream of WWOOF'ing), Food Not Bombs, Giving back to my landbase, Forming communities of aware individuals ready to assist one another when our civilization finally collpases and to help make the fall as smooth as possible, Playing Golf, Environmental Science, Sustainable Arcitecture, Mini Houses, Hotel and Bar Design, Open-Source Humanitarian Design, Refugee Reconstruction, Green Decorating, Economics, The Dallas Farmers Market, Community Gardening, Japanese Minimalist Electronic Music, Psych-Folk, Astrology and the Cosmos, Texas Hold 'Em, PartyPoker.com, Watching those Poker Championship Tournaments on TV, Chess, Fishing, Going for jogs in the morning, Water; swimming, Spur of the moment road trips out to the middle of nowhere at two in the morning, Religious History, Theology, Advaita Vedanta, The Law of Attraction and the Science of Deliberate Intent, Creative Visualization, 'The Secret', Anarcho-Primitivism, The Nature of Personal Reality, Quantum Physics and the Holographic Universe, Music Theory, Philosophy, Fishing, Child Development and Psychology, Russian, German and Japanese Literature, The Illusory Nature of Time and Space, The Macrocosm and the Microcosm, Mental Projection, Debating, Criminal Law, Forensics, Anthropology, Sociology

Things I like to do; I like going for walks and jogs, going to thrift stores to buy awesome t-shirts and records and little electronics and toy instruments, estate sales and garage sales (just like my pops and my grandma!), having dinner with the homeless especially with this dude Rick that stays out behind Pope's Fried Chicken off of Haskell in the Old East Side. Rick is one bad ass dude. I also enjoy laying out in fields, flying kites, feeding ducks, driving out to the country to watch the stars swirl around in the night sky, going to museums, art galleries, arboretums, botanical gardens, going to the theater (plays not movies), opera, playing texas hold 'em online, poker night with the guys, writing, drawing, taking naps, trying out new restaurants, going to concerts, having the occasional imported ale, laying in my room listening to records, going to the library, meditating, yoga, spending time with my family, volunteering at the daycare my mother works at, helping out my grandparents, going to barnes and noble, playing on the internet, obsessively downloading music, fishing, camping, going to the beach, road trips, traveling, urban exploration, sushi, keeping up with the stock market, keeping up with current events, socialism, philosophy, religious history, learning foreign languages and many many many other things.

Things I like to listen to; Slaid Cleaves, Traffic, Storyville, The Gourds, Manchester Orchestra, The Pancakes, Japanther, Goodbooks, Kettel, Lhasa, Antimatter, Marsen Jules, Deadbeat, The Mountain Goats, Ray LaMontagne, Great Lake Swimmers, Page France, Nagisa Ni Te, Julia Kent, Deadbeat, Yuko Ikoma, Olafur Arnalds, Takeshi Nishimoto, Colleen, Piana, Victor Bermon, Childs, Eluvium, Daisuke Miyatani, Solo Andata, Skuli Sverrisson, Shuta Hasunama, Leaf, Hulk, Midori Hirano, Seabear, Yasushi Yoshida, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Little Death Orchestra, Takashi Wada, Lullatone, Saltillo, Castanets, Susumu Yokota, Psapp, ISAN, Juana Molina, Takagi Masakatsu, Chihei Hatakeyama, Motohiro Nakashima, Salyu, Deaf Center, Pacific Gas and Electric, Rebecca Pidgeon, Livingston Taylor, Valerie Joyce, McCoy Tyner, John Pizarelli, Christy Baron, Rosa Passos, Kenny Rankin, Ana Caram, T. Rex, Joe Tex, Eddie Floyd, The Coasters, Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich, Pino Donaggio, Willy DeVille, Smith, Ennio Morricone, Roger and the Gypsies, Betty Harris, David Batiste, Eldridge Holmes, Lee Dorsey, Salt, Huey Piano Smith, Eddie Bo, The Wild Magnolias, Bobby and the Heavyweights, The Meters, Irma Thomas, The Gaturs, Oliver Morgan, Inell Young, Michael Franks, Albert King, Dr. John, Castanets, Richard Buckner, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Skip James, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Billy Preston, B.B. King, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Solomon Burke, James Carr, Al Green, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, Mahalia Jackson, Louis Jordan, Big Joe Turner, Little Richard, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Nat King Cole Trio, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Paul Whiteman, Eddie Miller, Jessie Price, Nappy Lamare, Marvin Ash, Deane Kincaide, Scatman Crothers, Johnny Mercer, Blind Willie Johnson, Moondog, Erik Satie, Verdi, Valentin Silvestrov, Rachmaninov, Hanns Eisler, Joseph Haydn, Olivier Messiaen, Henryk Gorecki, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Paganini, Scelsi, Ciurlionis, Desyatnikov, Corelli, Cantori Gregoriani, Cecelia Bartoli, Chopin, Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, Igor Stravinsky, Grieg, Morricone, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Saint Saens, George Gershwin, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Who, The Kinks, Queen, Led Zeppelin, Steve Miller Band, The Doors, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Journey, Foreigner, Alice Cooper, Boston, Kansas, Styx, The Eagles, Chicago, Genesis, Yes, Electric Light Orchestra, Rush, Jefferson Airplane, Van Halen, Van Morrison

Things I like to watch; The Seventh Seal, The 400 Blows, Taste of Cherry, Black Orpheus, Brazil, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Autumn Sonata, The Orphic Tragedy, The Last Temptation of Christ, And God Created Woman, Black Narcissus, All That Heaven Allows, Spartacus, Salesman, Wild Strawberries, Solaris, Winter Light, Floating Weeds, Late Spring, Viridiana, Humanity and Paper Balloons, Michael (1924), Faust: A German Folk Tale, Le Silence de la Mer, Shoah, Die Nibelungen Heroes, Iron Chef, The History Channel, Turner Classic Movies, Court TV and the Travel Channel, Bloomberg Report, Situation Room, C-Span,