Random Factoids

i am definitely not for everyone...my sense of humor is self-reflexive and obscure...i fear boredom most in life, but find fascination in almost anything...i have too much to say...logorrhea, if you will...i am narcissistic but more interested in you than in myself...i am easily enchanted...i lack sufficient discipline...i sing a hell of a lot better than i play guitar, which isn't saying much (i never got past chords and have the rhythm of someone having a seizure), but couldn't dance my way out of a paper bag...i speak several languages fluently...i've lived on 3 continents...i rescue strays and befriend underdogs...i love to paint, draw, take photographs (level of talent/skill is debatable)...i hate television and have never owned one, but find pop culture interesting to analyze...i am fascinated by avant-garde art and movements, revolution, experimental life and alternative culture, multiple modernities, urban space and post-socialist subculture...i'm to the left of lenin...i am grieving for the state of the nation...i believe in the vocation of public intellectal...i'm direct, intense and uninhibited but have a strong sense of my principles...i am emotionally engaged but rational to the core...i believe in fair play, even when it is not in my interest...i am nuturing to a fault, but often overwhelm people who don't have a strong sense of self and for this i am thoroughly unapologetic...i know what i want out of life and am not afraid to put myself out there to get it...i am a strange combination of cynical and trusting...I live in leaps of unwarranted faith in human goodness thatalmost inariably leave me, sooner or later, falling flat on my face. hard. but i always, always, always get up...