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Tinderbox ...in his own words.

Gender: Male
Age: 38
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: EDI Integrations Specialist
Location: Houston (Clear Lake), TX
Interests: Road tripping and photographing. Watching and talking about movies and film. Reading anything I can get my hands on. Deep background in photography and mixed-media artwork, which I continue to do in my off-time. Nighttime bike rides and daytime canoe explorations. Finding new restaurants and cuisines (Indian and Cajun are my favorite), good wine, chocolate. I'm pretty much up for anything. I used to play some rock drums and jazz percussion about a thousand years ago. A little quiet myself so I like being around vivacious people, good conversationalists, and those with unique viewpoints.
Religion: Spiritual, but not affiliated with a religious group

  • My Education

    College: Parsons School of Design 1994
    New York City
    B.F.A. Photography

  • My Favorites

    Music: __________________________________________________ Musicians: Cocteau Twins, Catherine Wheel, David Sylvian, Japan, Nick Drake, Curve, Dead Can Dance, Slowdive, Bowie, My Bloody Valentine, Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Bush, Harold Budd, Ulrich Schnauss, Journey, Chameleons, Chopin, Saint Etienne, Gerry Rafferty, Queen, Breathless, This Mortal Coil, Boston, Emiliana Torrini, Steely Dan, AC/DC, Judas Priest, Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, Renaissance and medieval music. ........................................................................... Recent favorites: Blonde Redhead, Band of Horses, Caribou.
    TV Shows: __________________________________________________ I don't have cable so I don't see current stuff, but I rent series on DVD or buy the occasional box set. ........................................................................... Currently watching "Prison Break". Most recent favorite shows: HBO's "Rome" and "John Adams", "Battlestar Galactica", "House, M.D.", "Dirty Jobs", "Deadliest Catch", "Lost" (though I've only seen the 1st season). ........................................................................... I also love "E.R", "The X-Files", "Deadwood", "Firefly", and older favorites "Magnum P.I.", "Bewitched", "Star Trek", "Monty Python's Flying Circus", Bob Ross, Teletubbies (they're psychedelic, man!).
    Movies: __________________________________________________ Most recent favorites: "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (2008), "Silent Light" (2007), "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" (2007), "There Will Be Blood" (2007), "No Country for Old Men" (2007), "The Mist" (2007), "We Own the Night" (2007), "Into the Wild" (2007), "The Prestige" (2006), "Into Great Silence" (2005). ........................................................................... All-time favorites: "Brazil" (1985), "La Dolce Vita" (1960), "Ran" (1985), "The Lord of the Rings" (2001-03), "Rear Window" (1954), "A Man for All Seasons" (1966), "Sideways" (2004), "Exotica" (1994), "Amélie" (2001), "Harold and Maude" (1971), "Mirrormask" (2005), "Kingdom of Heaven" (2005), "Excalibur" (1981), "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1941), "The Searchers" (1956), "After Hours" (1985), "Baraka" (1992). ........................................................................... The films of directors John Ford, Werner Herzog, Neil Jordan, Merchant/Ivory, David Lean, Eric Rohmer, David Lynch, John McTiernan, Sally Potter, Michael Mann, Akira Kurosawa, Peter Greenaway, Ridley Scott, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Curtiz, Walter Hill. ............................................................................ VIDEO #1 BELOW: The Trevi Fountain scene from Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960), starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. ............................................................................ VIDEO #2 BELOW: The World Falls Down scene from "Labyrinth" (1986), starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.
    Books: __________________________________________________ My favorite books include anything by Jorge Amado or Ray Bradbury, "Watership Down" by Richard Adams (pensive rabbits on a journey from an apocalypse), "Confessions of Zeno" by Italo Svevo (the psychoanalytic, semi-comic diary of a dysfunctional businessman), "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester (a classic scifi from the 50s about revenge and teleportation), anything by Mark Twain, C.S. Lewis, Zane Grey, H.P. Lovecraft, or Jorge Luis Borges. C.P. Cavafy. Harold Pinter. Italo Calvino.
    Quotes: __________________________________________________ "When I woke up today, and you weren't there to play, then I wanted to be with you. When you showed me your eyes, whispered love at the skies, then I wanted to stay with you. Inside me I feel, alone and unreal, and the way you kiss will always be a very special thing to me. ----------- "Late at Night" by Syd Barrett, from "The Madcap Laughs" (1970)
    More About Me: __________________________________________________ Politically, I mistook myself for a liberal during my school years because all of my friends were, I was young and at college in NYC. Today I consider myself a live-and-let-live independent conservative, possibly a small-"L" libertarian, but not a Republican. I get along with kind, open minded, positive people of all stripes.

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