Backpacking, hiking, adventuring, sport climbing and bouldering, mountaineering, travel, the unknown. Running/trail running. Skiing, Snow shoeing, Reading, writing (poetry, prose, and research papers). Movies, art: painting (the act, as well as steeping in the beauty of the masters), photography (never can get enough of this, I'm a regular shutter BUG); general creation. Yoga, meditation, sitting in the steam room.
Psychology, Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow, Personality Theory, education, current events, Travel, Mad knowledge of self.
Favorite Music:
JAZZ: Medeski, Martin & Wood, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie "Bird" Parker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Herbie Handcock, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Art Blakey, Sun Ra, Herb Ellis, Ray Brown, John Mclaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Clark Terry, George Shearing.

HIP HOP: Black Star, Pete Rock, Mos Def, MF Doom, CL Smooth, Digable Planets, The Roots, De La Soul, Common, Immortal Technique, Beastie Boys, Black Sheep, Wu-Tang Clan, Boogie Down Productions, Jay-Z, Lauryn Hill, Talib Kweli & DJ Hi Tek, Lyrics Born, A Tribe Called Quest.

ROOTS, ROCK, REGGAE: Radiohead, Bob Marley, The Mars Volta, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Fugazi, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Pixies, The Raconteurs, Bad Brains, Phish, White Stripes, Sublime, Sade, Talking Heads, The Arcade Fire, Blind Melon, Cake, Beck, Cat Power, Amy Winehouse, Gorillaz, The Flaming Lips, Gil Scott-Heron, Grateful Dead, Gregory Issacs, J Boogie's Dubtronic Science, Jane's Addiction, Jill Scott, Jimi Hendrix, John Butler Trio, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Wilco, David Bowie, Minor Threat, Mr. Bungle, Thievery Corporation.

ELECTRONIC: Amon Tobin, Arovane, Jazzanova, Mark Farina, Wax Poetics, Yohimbe Brothers, The Kleptones.

CLASSICAL: Maurice Ravel, Wagner, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Bach, Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Igor Stravinsky, Antonio Vivaldi, Copeland, George Gershwin


Favorite Books:
Written by Jack Kerouac: The Town and the City, On the Road, The Subterraneans, The Dharma Bums, Doctor Sax, Maggie Cassidy, Mexico City Blues, Book of Dreams, Tristessa, Visions of Cody, Lonesome Traveler, Big Sur, Visions of Gerard, Desolation Angels, Satori in Paris & Pic, Vanity of Duluoz.

Written by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov.

Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals

Written by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov: Laughter in the Dark, Invitation to a Beheading, The Eye, The Gift, Bend Sinister, Lolita, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Look at the Harlequins!

Written by Ayn Rand: Night of January 16th, We the Living, Anthem, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged.

Written by Joseph Heller: Catch 22, Closing Time.

Written by Phillip Pullman: His Dark Materials- The Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass.

Written by Franz Kafka: The Trial, Metamorphosis.

Written by John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Winter of Our Discontent.

Written by Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan, Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan, Tales of Power, The Second Ring of Power, The Eagle's Gift, The Fire From Within, The Art of Dreaming.

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in The Rye, Franny And Zooey, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour: An Introduction

Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Illustrated Man, The Golden Apples of the Sun, I Sing The Body Electric.


Favorite Movies:
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, The Darjeeling Limited, American Beauty, No Country for Old Men, Any Marx Brothers movie(preferably with Chico), The Birds, Vertigo, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Psycho, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The 39 Steps, The Trouble with Harry, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Big Lebowski, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run

I'm up for anything. The greater the adventure the better; also exotic dining & the symphony is a blast.