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INTERESTS: Esoterica, media, yoga, linguica, eastern studies, neuroscience, genetics, postmodernism, humanities, ethical theory, alternative health, religions, nanotech, feminism, anarchism, paleontology, fiction, mythology, art, genetics, people-watching, NYC architecture, spirituality, anthropology-archeology, pets (animals in general), anime, scifi, evolutionary intelligence, historic conspiracies, alternative energy, paranormal, pharmacology, memorabilia, hedonism, smart-ass humor, non-hierarchical structures, gothiness, science, inexplicable anomalies, pretty-pretties I find on the sidewalk, comics, magick, pin-up art, psychology & oral sex. [Non-limiting List.]

DISINTERESTS: Fashion, sports, finance, cars, bright sunlight, regular hours, or why YOUR religion is MY Answer.

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I am your basic not-entirely-ex hippie guy who finds more in common with sub&countercultures than the mainstream.^^I've had experience in various alt relationships[escapade/open/multiple/poly/light bondage/ livein babysitter/chaotic neutral catalyst/strange attractor/ad hoc sex therapist/hide the shoehorn inna corner...]as well as more mundane kinds[5 yrs of marriage/several luminous friendships(with&without benefits)with various remarkable women].(I tend to find myself involved with smart complicated women(never an *entirely* unmixed blessing!).The most amazing partners I've had have been bi women.(Any thoughts on why that might be?)

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TURNONS: Willing flesh, a lively mind, a shining heart, intelligence, creativity, kindness, empathy, beauty, skill, independence, an open mind, liveliness, passion, lack of inhibition & anyone who can say something interesting about anything. (I should maybe want to know someone dull unattractive mean rigid inarticulate clingy & passionless?)


TURNOFFS: Empathic indifference, bigotry, scorn [as opposed to witty sarcasm], willful ignorance, a curdled soul, blithe cultural chauvinism, possessive jealousy, skindeep depth, mindless rigidity, lack of self-respect & habitual manipulativeness.

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MOVIES: Altered States, To Have and To Have Not, Life of Bryan, Run Lola Run, Waking Life, Bound, LA Story, The Court Jester, The Matrix, The Seven Samuri, Silence of the Lambs, Young Frankenstein, Blade Runner, Dr Strangelove, Debbie Does Dallas, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, The Seven Year Itch, Repo Man, The Opposite of Sex, Empire Records, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, What the *BLEEP* Do We Know?, 12 Monkeys, Streets of Fire, The Princess Bride, Night on Earth, Time Bandits, My Dinner with Andre, Chasing Amy, Raising Arizona, Dogma, Serenity, Sky Captain, Dark City, Kiki's Delivery Service, Immortal, Mystery Train, A Scanner Darkly, Kill Bill[s], Being There, Spirited Away, MirrorMask--and at least a dozen to be added later... each unique examples of their sometimes singular genre.



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MUSIC: I mostly like woman's voices. In my CD collection you'll find: Sarah McLachlan, Meredith Brooks, Paula Cole, Fiona Apple, Sophie B. Hawkins, Lucious Jackson, Jacqueline Hopkins, Sheryl Crow, Brenda Reed, Joan Osborne, Melissa Etheridge, Tori Amos, K.D. Lang, Natalie Merchant, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, Penelope Houston, Beth Hart, Lauren Echo, Pink, Pat Benetar, the Cranberries, Sinead O'Conner, Stevie Nicks, No Doubt, etc. As well as: Republica, Starship, Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, BB King, Talking Heads, B-52s, The Beatles...


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BOOKS: The ILLUMINATUS! Trilogy [Shea & Wilson]; The Cryptonomicon [Neal Stephensen]; The Principia Discordia (don't ask unless you *really* wanna know...); A Wrinkle in Time [L'Engle]; The Great and Secret Show [Clive Barker]; Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said [Phillip K. Dick]--in fact, *anything* by PKD, or: John Barth, Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, Alan Moore, Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, Daniel Pinkwater, Hunter Thompson, Octavia Butler, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Samuel R. Delany, Oliver Sacks, Robert Heinlein [a sentimental favorite--without his stuff, I doubt I would have survived my youth in WVa!], William Gibson, Dean Koontz [except his very early stuff-*pee-yew*!], Stephen King, Peter Straub, Robert Charles Wilson, Roger Zelazny...

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