Friends, Activity Partners

May 2003

Berkeley

Lifelong Medical Group, Revolution Prep, Berkeley Potters' Guild, The Potters' Studio

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Prospect Sierra School, Attended 1984 - 1990, Class of 1990
Head Royce School, Attended 1990 - 1996, Class of 1996

Columbia U undergrad, Oxford U grad., Head-Royce, Sierra School

Columbia University, Attended 1997 - 2001, Class of 2001, Bachelor's Degree, Comparative Literature

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studio pottery, languages, running, hiking, ashtanga yoga, swimming, biking, british comedy, theatre-going, diseases, travelling, changing drug policy, barium, car camping, funny black women, disturbing films, joan rivers, whitney houston and courtney love (w/drugs, please), popbitch.com, monique, isabelle huppert, mornings, coffee strong to the point of oil swirling at the top, shino glazes, chicken-in-a-can, champagne, high-altitude hikes, kim chi, travelling++++, microbrews, 4:20, corduroy, mycology, medicine, patty hearst and the s.l.a., japanese climbing kilns, new and used bookstores, looking for gemstones on the beach, speed-boating and waterskiing, coffee ice cream (yum)

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor, Passage to India, The Sheltering Sky, The Waves, Me Talk Pretty One Day, any Dorothy Parker, The Woman Warrior, Norman Mailer, As I Lay Dying, The Handmaid's Tale, A la recherche du temps perdu, Jane Eyre, Ulysses, The Book of Ruth, Le pur et l'impur, any Chomsky

Dr. Strangelove, All About Eve, A Place in the Sun, Suddenly Last Summer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Now Voyager, Mildred Pierce, Full Frontal, Traffic, Chinatown, Showgirls, All About My Mother, Persona, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Barfly, Videodrome, Evil Dead, Last Night, Cuckoo, The Piano Teacher, Claude Chabrol, Down with Love, Bergman, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, The Vanishing, La Ceremonie, Fantasia, Another Woman, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, 2001, Sunset Boulevard, Faithless, Citizen Ruth, Monster, The Fog of War, The Miracle Worker, The Last King of Scotland

Classical, esp. 20th cent. Russians, hippie standbys from the 60s and 70s, hip-hop and R and B (esp. Mary J and Missy E.), certain rap aka Biggie and Kim (free Kim!), friend Florian's megamixes and sick tracks from the world of Europop, Miss Kitten

Six Feet Under, Brass Eye, Phoenix Nights, The Office. Will and Grace, recently really into The Simple Life, French and Saunders, Jam, Human Remains, Any specials on surgical procedures, Jeopardy!, British Local Programming (stoned), MTV2, some infomercials, Turner Classic Movies...anything worth while usually comes on DVD now so I have disconnected my TV save for the DVD player and the VCR.

Virgo

Some of my favorite quotes:
-'If you're going to tell people the truth, make sure to make them laugh...or they'll kill you' -Oscar Wilde
-'Beauty is being yourself--but on purpose' -Quentin Crisp
-'Horticulture: you can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think' -Dorothy Parker
'A true friend stabs you in the front' -Oscar Wilde
'Brevity is the soul of lingerie' -Dorothy Parker
'Money is better than poverty--if only for financial reasons' -Woody Allen
'For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook' -Quentin Crisp
'It is easier to stay out than get out.'-Mark Twain
'If you can't find out who did it, you can't punish anyone'-Noam Chomsky

Some of my favorite things:
-The smell of skunk
-Champagne
-Fitlered sierra run-off water while hiking
-Dutch caramel wafers
-Dogs that don't bark
-The din of New York through a closed window
-Deafening rain on tin roofs
-Pants with lots of pockets
-Translucent porcelain
-Copenhagen by bike
-Australian night skies (like a planetarium)
-Impromptu hikes
-Tea at the Dorchester Abbey
-Scandanavian film
-Listening to Italian conversations about nothing
-The sound of waves as a lullaby.

I really want to connect with people who share my interests and who would like to hang out, go to museums, think of good but gentle practical jokes, possibly implement them, discover new trails, etc. Potters get extra points. No Zionists allowed. Other than that, an equal opportunity profile here.