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About me

Gender Male
Industry Tourism
Occupation Tour Ambassador
Location San Francisco, California, United States
Introduction I'm from upstate New York. Grew up mostly around Saratoga Springs, summers in San Diego. I have seen the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia 73 times and probably a thousand other concerts. This was a defining experience. I love live music. I play guitar and bass, lot of styles moderately well. I do a lot of things moderately well. Had a radio show in college and ran the production studio. Lived in Italy for about 2 1/2 years. Love my italian friends, speaking italian. Speak some french and spanish too. I like juggling, hiking, running, biking, snowboarding, dancing! I have worked in publishing, education, event production and in wine tourism for the last couple of years...
Interests music (listening and playing), dancing, hiking, snowboarding, chess, bicycling, running.
Favorite Movies Blade Runner, Breaking the Waves, Godfather, 400 Blows, Delicatessen, The Idiots, stay tuned...My friend Ken Greenstein has a list of his top 300 movies, I aspire to do one of my own some day.
Favorite Music Ragtime, blues, folk of many cultures, french gypsy, synth pop, punk, post-punk, some electronica, funk, stay tuned...
Favorite Books Douglass Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide; Douglas Coupland's Generation X; Kurt Vonegut's Cat's Cradle; Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Thomas Baldwin's Giovanni's Room; Magnus Mills' Restraint of Beasts; Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminati Trilogy; non fiction and fiction titles various; The Social Animal; Tropic of Chaos; 1491; The World Without Us; stay tuned...