- Age
28
- Zodiac
Libra
- Current Location
Thousand Oaks, CA
- Hometown
Newbury Park, CA
- Occupation
Online Ad Sales
- Status
In a Relationship
- Ethnicity
White / Caucasian
- Kids
Love 'em
- Drink / Smoke
Yes/No
- High School
Newbury Park Adventist Academy
- Colleges
Pepperdine and the Graziadio School
- Student Status
Post-grad
- Major
Economics, Finance and French
- Student Organizations
RedBag Homeless Project
- General Interests
Improving myself, helping others improve themselves, surpassing goals, learning through experience, keeping perspective, creating, reinventing, transforming, balancing life and work, accepting my flaws but fighting to change them
- Hobbies
brainstorming, solving problems, finding problems to solve, helping those who seem helpless, making stuff, learning photoshop (I need a mac, but have yet to convert), finding art in the most unlikely of places, cooking, starting business ventures, reading history, making history, taking pics, searching for graffiti, digging for records, turntables old and new, math, opening doors and answering the knock, eating clean and then eating whatever I want for a full 24 hour period, watching trends, questioning the norm, reading about quantum phsyics and buddhism, eating massive salads and drinking tons of water, japanese toy culture
- Books
Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings, McFarlane (a must); The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Zukav; Republic, Plato; Secret to Happiness, Dalai Lama; The Quantum and The Lotus, Ricard & Thuan; The Real History of The United States, Zinn (a little left but a good read); Wall and Piece, Banksy; The Four Agreements, Ruiz; Fabric of Reality, Deutsch; Tao of Physics, Capra; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Pirsig;
- Fitness
Crossfit.com
- Fine Arts
Boticcelli, DaVinci, Brunelleschi, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Basquiat, Pollack, Steigman, Retna, Sever, Revok, Banksy, KAWS, Oriol Estevan, COPE, Saber, Barry McGee, Sam Flores, David Choe, Enrique Metinides, Mear One, Rime, Victor Chapa, Bask, Dave Kinsey, Mr. Cartoon, Space Invader
- Who I want to meet
adults who dream like children, visionaries, motivators, thinkers, questioners, hermits, monks, revolutionaries, more specifically... the 14th Dalai Lama, JC, Ghandi, Martin Luther, Thoreau, Plato, DaVinci, Copernicus, John Milton, Kahlil Gibran, Gary Zukav, Heisenberg, Shrodinger, Bohr, Einstein and Mary Magdalene
- Interested in
Old Friendship/Alumni
- I love
Making Aimee happy,
people who pick up trash at the beach when nobody is looking,
Quotes..."The best things in life aren't things" Art Buchwald,
"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork" Milton Friedman,
"Our modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned." Swami Nirmalananda,
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants." Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
"Society honors its live conformists and celebrates its dead troublemakers." Mignon McLaughlin,
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight" Albert Schweitzer,
"Live the change you want to see in the world" Mahatma Ghandi
- Pet Peeves
Glory seekers, sycophants, money mongers, a lot of politicians, kool-aid drinkers, spam (the meat and the mail), intolerance, followers, complacency, stagnation, fingerprints on a clean car window, unfinished tasks, missing the journey while imagining the destination
- Places I've been
France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, England, Mexico
- Places I'd like to go
50 Countries by 50 Years Old... Some standouts are Machu Pichu, Tibet, all of Japan, China, Brazil, Argentina, Lake Como, all of Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, Tavarua, Teahupo, Maldives, Panama, Cuba, Papua New Guinea, Samoa
- I'd rather be
Traveling... I got a goal to hit!
- Sports
Surfing boards from every decade of design, bodysurfing, riding road bikes really long distances, fixed gears & mountain bikes, swimming, running (sometimes the things we can't stand the most bring us the greatest benefit), crossfit regiments, triathlons, skateboarding, beach volleyball, bowling is fun
- Music
Lonnie Smith, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington Jr., Gaye, Coltrane, Charlie Parker, the entire Marsalis family, Jimmy Smith, Ray Brown Trio, Joey DeFrancesco, Dizzy, Otis Redding, Cymande, Headhunters, Herbie, Miles Davis, Art Blakely, Parliament, Brass Construction, Jimi, Al Green, The Meters, Eligh, Grouch, 3MG, Living Legends, Aesop Rock, Crown City Rockers, Scarub, Medusa, Aceyalone, Latyrix, Blackalicious, Atmosphere, Del, 2mex, Sage Francis, Lateef, Terrence Parker, Marques Wyatt, Kemal, Jay-J, Theo Parrish, Harvey
- Movies
Pi, City of God, Gummo, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Requiem For A Dream, Magnolia, Clockwork Orange, L'Auberge Espagnole, Resevoir Dogs, Braveheart, Beautiful Mind, The Shining, Gladiator, What About Bob, Big Lebowski, Platoon, Battle Royale, Boogie Nights, Memento, Office Space, Fight Club, Ridicule, Motorcycle Diaries, Crouching Tiger, Life is Beautiful, Usual Suspects, LA Confidential
- TV
All seasons West Wing, Food Network, 24, Dexter, Sopranos, CNBC, Huell Howser (haha... for real), TV5, Three Sheets (Mojo), Lockdown, Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch, Entourage, Planet Earth,
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