melancholic optimist
- Age: 29
- Gender: Male
- Astrological Sign: Leo
- Zodiac Year: Sheep
- Industry: Technology
- Location: Portland : Oregon : United States
About Me
I'm a computer scientist gone artist/musician/writer who has a great desire to add a little bit of beauty to the world.
You have to dig a hole to China. Where do you start?
In China.
Interests
- music
- poetry
- language
- art
- life
- enjoyment
- nature
- god
- community
- butterflies
- clouds
- sunsets
- stars
- rain
- my wife
- spontaneity
- the hot tired feeling at the end of a summer day when it starts to cool down
- the smell of jasmine
- the smell of the earth after it's been dry for a while but has just started downpouring
- living for a purpose
- coffee
Favorite Movies
- amelie
- donnie darko
- monty python: the holy grail
- i heart huckabees
- dark city
- big fish
- the dark crystal
- better off dead
- garden state
- finding neverland
- a very long engagement
- goodbye lenin
- mirrormask
- eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
- magnolia
- little miss sunshine
- pan's labyrinth
- the science of sleep
- house of flying daggers
- hero
Favorite Music
- u2
- muse
- keane
- coldplay
- sarah mclachlan
- kent
- radiohead
- björk
- toad the wet sprocket
- sigur rós
- amina
- the smashing pumpkins
- the cardigans
- eisley
- damien rice
- beck
- the beatles
- fiona apple
- iron & wine
- jeff buckley
- dmitri shostakovich
- sergei rachmaninoff
- claude debussy
- moby
- simon and garfunkel
- paul simon
- stars
- beirut
- sixpence none the richer
- tori amos
- wilco
- climber
- psapp
- trespassers william
- camera obscura
- derek webb
- thom yorke
- jenny lewis
- bright eyes
- belle and sebastian
- cocorosie
- múm
- regina spektor
- röyksopp
- death cab for cutie
- joanna newsom
- arvo pärt
- my brightest diamond
- ólöf arnalds
Favorite Books
- the little prince
- wind sand and stars
- wisdom of the sands
- the alchemist
- warrior of the light
- crime and punishment
- brothers karamazov
- the death of ivan ilych
- the bible
- franny and zooey
- catcher in the rye
- the bell jar
- anything by sylvia plath or j.d. salinger
- anything by kahlil gibran.
