Steve Fischer

University of Illinois - Chicago, Attended 2004 - 2006, Class of 2006, Master's Degree, Education
Wayne State University, Attended 1990 - 1994, Class of 1994, Bachelor's Degree, BA English Literature and German

Writer/ Teacher/ Dodging the Zombies

Critical Mass

Jazz, literature, writing, flicks, cats, travelling the edges, the scope of existence, camping, theater, conversation, people watching, cooking, red red wine, body art, biking, working out, yoga, loafing, laughing, dreaming and creating. SOUL.

Biographies, Blues People, Going After Cacciato, The Coast of Chicago (finally back in print!), Neon Wilderness, Blues & The Poetic Spirit, The Sound & The Fury, Lunch Poems, On The Road, The Adding Machine, Leaves of Grass, William Carlos Williams, The Complete Rumi

STAR WARS, The Man With The Golden Arm, The Graduate, Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, Midnight Cowboy, The French Connection, The Godfather, Carlito's Way, Red River, American Splendor, Wings of Desire, Anything with Woody Allen & Diane Keaton, The Misfits, Lost in Translation, &c. Would love to find someone to watch Fassbinder films with..

Old BLUE NOTE discs, Miles Davis, Tom Waits, Guy Clark, John Lennon, Bill Evans, Johnny Cash, Albert Ayler, Billy Bragg, Fela, The Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, Jandek, The Aluminum Group, Leonard Cohen, Gelnn Gould, Bobby Dylan, MOTOWN, Tortoise, J.S. Bach, Peter Broetzmann, Woody Gutherie, Vandermark Five, Johnny Cash, Ravi Shankar, D.J. Spooky, John Coltrane, Theolonious Sphere Monk, MC5, The Smiths, Early REM, Howlin' Wolf, Joy Division, Last Exit &c.

I abhor it, but Iif I hafta I like Charlie Rose, Front Line, This Week, Original Twilight Zone and Star Trek, new Battlestar Galactica, COSMOS...Probably a few others

I'm a fun loving, adventurous and very passionate person. I love this life, my family and my friends and my work. I have a variety of interests (see below) and tend to adapt well to most social scenes. I'm very physically active, workout,yoga, biking, walking and hiking, but I'm not at all perfect, nor do I expect that from others. I'm here primarily to meet new people and make some new friends. If you like my profile, don't be shy! Just write me and say, hi.

Some favorite quotes

"If you hear a voice within you say, 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and the voice will be silenced." -Van Gogh

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state." -Goethe

"I am at two with nature." -Woody Allen

I'm interested in this idea of "activity partners", or "friends". I'd like to meet people who share some of the same interests as me, but open me up to their own unique experiences, perspectives, dreams,talents, tastes and so forth. In other words if you're an artsy, creative person,someone with a spark of zaniness, someone bold, fierce, but still self-conscious, someone who is spontaneous and loves adventure, enjoys making the most
out of the days as well as wasting them with idleness, we
will probably be able to tango. People who imitate T.V.
really annoy me.