Gender	Male
Industry	Business Services
Occupation	International Business Manager
Location	Portland, Oregon, United States
Introduction	I'm a writer. I live in Portland, Oregon and I'm from South Africa. Things I love the smell of: coffee, chamomile, gasoline, and sun screen. Things I love the taste of: butter, butter, butter, and wine. Things I love to snuggle: cats, thick towels, and my friends when I'm drunk. Secret pleasures: conducting imaginary orchestras as I drive to Wagner or Beethoven, reading the last sentence of every book before I start reading the book, lying on hot concrete right as it starts raining and just breathing in the petrichor. I don't know if I still believe in love, but I think that will just make it all the more exciting if it does finally fall on my head out of the sky. In the meantime, and when I'm not doing all of the aforementioned things, I write. This is where I put the things I write so that when (not if) my computer crashes I will still have them. Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate. You have been warned. http://www.youtube.com/user/OTORIventures/videos
Interests	barista-ing, video games, calligraphy, music, writing, gardening, acting, book binding, astronomy, cooking, painting, opera, learning in general
Favorite movies	The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, Runaway Jury, Casino Royal, Ocean's 11, Italian Job, Finding Nemo, Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, LotR:The Two Towers,
Favorite music	Panic at the Disco, Falling Up, Linkin Park, 3 Days Grace, Skillet, John Raznik, The Script, Techno:, Alone in the Dark-Airwave, Harder Better Faster Stronger(radio edition)(live)- Daft Punk, Caffeine-Kasai, Adagio for Strings-Tiesto, Classical:, Clair de Lune -Debussy, Rhapsody in Blue- George Gershwin, Besaid-Nobuo Uematsu, Agnus Dei-Barber, Violin Sonata in A Minor-Franck, Opera:, "Bella figlia dell'amore"-Verdi, The Coffee Cantata-Bach, Carmen-Bezit
Favorite books	The Chronicles of Narnia-C.S. Lewis, Ivanhoe-Sir Walter Scott, The Hobbit-J.R.R. Tolkien, Shakespeare, Marlow, Johnson, Socrates, Lucretius, Aristophanes, Epicles, Keats, Shelley, Twain, Homer, e e cummings, Joyce, Pound, Brian Jacques, Dickins, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville, Austin,

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"I write to kill time and hope it returns the favor." - Publius Ovidius Naso