Chino XL
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Automotive |
| Occupation | Travel Coordinator |
| Location | Davis, California, United States |
| Introduction | I recently returned from a two year stint the right coast (NYC) to the left coast (NorCal). I also...sing, dance, conduct, love to travel, hang out with friends, have 4 tattoos, have a piercing, am intelligent, ride a motorcycle, am liberally minded, am not religious, play hacky sack, read, watch movies, play billiards, drink, go to all kinds of concerts/performances, enjoy exceptional dining experiences, go to the beach, ski, snowboard occasionally, scuba dive, roller blade, enjoy dressing up, shop, work, graduated from college, have done a few drugs, etc., etc., etc. So in a small nutshell, that's me. There's obviously lots more too me, but that story is for another day... |
| Interests | Music, Choral stuff, Collegiate A Cappella, Dance, Theater, Drinking, Religions, Martial Arts (Jeet Kune Do, Brazilian(Gracie) Jiu-jitsu, Judo, Wushu, Shaolin Kung Fu, Savate), Motorcycles (Yamaha YZF R6), Europe (especially Italy, England, Switzerland, and France), Japan, Samurai, European Football, tattoos, shenanigans. |
| Favorite movies | Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge, 10 Things I Hate About You, Down To You, Shakespeare in Love, The Princess Bride, Much Ado About Nothing, Star Wars (all of them), Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Matrix Trilogy, The Blade Trilogy, Glory, Gettysburg, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, The Fifth Element, V for Vendetta, Usual Suspects, Ocean's 11, Crash, Closer, The Boondock Saints, Trainspotting, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Shaun of the Dead, Love Actually, Center Stage, Swing Kids, Swingers, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Dazed & Confused, Half Baked, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Benny & Joon, Saved, Garden State, The Last Kiss, Winter Passing, The Good Girl, Napolean Dynamite, Green Street Hooligans, The Football Factory, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Les Choristes, Amelie, Y tu mama tambien, The Edukators, Lola Rennt, Goodbye Lenin, Kevin Smith, Wes Anderson, Christopher Guest, & John Cusack movies |
| Favorite music | AC/DC, Aerosmith, Weezer, Evanessence, U2, Dave Matthews Band, Barenaked Ladies, John Mayer, Maroon 5, Ben Harper, Indigo Girls, Simon and Garfunkel, Coldplay, Mazzy Star, Harry Connick Jr., Kurt Elling, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, The Real Group, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Royal Crown Revue, Billy Joel, Norah Jones, Yann Tiersen, Regina Spektor, Joshua Radin, Imogen Heap, Rachel Yamagata, Shuyler Fisk, Dashboard Confessional, Iron and Wine, Bright Eyes, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, The Killers, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Bush, The Police, Queen, Rancid, Green Day, Blink 182, No Doubt, Teh Proclaimers, Letters to Cleo, Tenacious D, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas, Matisyahu, Ludacris, Xzibit, Ying-Yang Twins, Gorillaz, Paul Oakenfold, John Digweed, Sasha, Ferry Corsten, DJ Irene, DJ Tiesto, Trance, Choral Music, and Musicals |
| Favorite books | Anything by Nick Hornby, Robert Lanham, Dan Brown, Michael Crichton, Roald Dahl, J. R. R. Tolkien, or Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tao Te Ching, The Tao of Jeet Kun Do, The Tao of Pooh, The Te of Piglet, Calvin and Hobbes, The Adventures of Astérix, Les Aventures de Tintin, and of course the Great Books (i.e. Homer, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Euripides, Lucretius, Virgil, Augustine, Tomas Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Martin Luther, Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Galileo, Renee Descartes, Voltaire, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Henry David Thoreau, Sigmund Freud, Martin Luther King Jr., Fredrich Nietzche, Malcolm X, Toni Morrison, etc.). |