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About me:

Your life is guided by the principles of Hedonism: You believe that pleasure is a great, or the greatest, good; and you try to enjoy life’s pleasures as much as you can.

“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!”

Sigh... PLEASE NOTE: I absolutely do not have time to sort through all the friend-requests that pile up here... if you want to request me, feel free, but SEND ME an e-mail letting me know who you are, or I probably won't ever get around to even looking at your profile... and even if I did, I very well might not recognize that you were my best friend in 3rd grade or whatever... I am really happy to make new friends... but I want to actually "meet" you, not just have your picture around taking up space... tell me something interesting!

I like to travel. A lot. SEE my Travel Map at tripadvisor HERE!
Countries I've been to:
Austria
Belgium
Belize
Bosnia & Hercegovina
Canada (a lot)
Croatia
Czech Republic
Egypt
England (a lot)
France
Germany (a lot)
Grenada
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
Italy (3x)
Jamaica
Japan (2x)
Macao
Mexico (2x)
Montenegro
Netherlands
Scotland
Spain
Switzerland
Thailand
United States (duh)
Vatican


Next travel plans:
PERU - (including Lima, Cusco, Lake Titcaca and of course Machu Picchu!) in the early fall, I hope! [update: it looks like this will NOT be happening, because most likely in the fall I am going to be in court fighting eviction. Suck.]

Places that are on my list of to-see-before-I-die:
Cambodia, Angkor Wat
Venice - (at Carnival)
Italy - San Gimignano, Venice - (at Carnival)
Spain - Barcelona & Madrid - Prado
Thailand - rural areas & beaches
India
France - rural areas & castles
Poland - maybe for castle party!
Greece - small island cruising...
Taxco, Mexico - when I have a load of cash to spend on silver jewelry!
I'll be adding to this as the mood strikes me....

Anyway, if you've never left your own country, don't try to tell me about how yours is the best place on the planet. But if you want to tell me about all your favorite places and why they're awesome, I would love to hear...

I just got signed up with kiva.org. They let you give 'microloans' to individuals in developing countries. It's pretty cool.

I tend to say what I think, to be highly opinionated, and to have a high opinion of myself. All of my opinions, of course, are Extremely Sensible and Logical, and it is really too bad that they are not shared by the rest of the planet. If you would like to hear my solutions for all the world's ills, just ask me!

Right now, I've recently started work at a new job at a large photo library. So far, so good!
Before that, I worked at the Brooklyn Museum for 4 years, in the Library and Archives, and as Digital Imaging Specialist.
In an unexpected wrinkle, I also did financial proofreading for a while.
I was a bartender at CBGB from 1991 to the bitter end - Oct. 2006.

I promoted goth clubs, DJ'ed, and booked bands for over a decade. My first club was TOCSIN, located at The Far Side, which later became Meow Mix. When the ownership changed, I moved the night to Alcatraz, and then Kaleidoscope Lounge. When that bar closed down, I created ALCHEMY at CBGB 313 Gallery, and that went for just shy of a decade. During that time, I also did Wasteland (named after the Mission UK song), Absolution (which I named after the Gary Numan song), and many many many other club nights at many different venues. (I've worked at Limelight, Pyramid, Z Bar, Flamingo East, Coney Island High, etc, etc.) I also did graphic design for zillions of flyers throughout this time. But then, once it was beginning to look pretty definite that CBGB was getting closed down, I had to concentrate on a career change. Grad school and now new jobs have meant that my energies have been focused elsewhere than into club nights.
Now it's my turn to have fun and let other people entertain me.

I did music journalism & band interviews for quite a while, most frequently for SECONDS. A couple of things I did are in the recently published book .45 Dangerous Minds. There's some other stuff out there as well...

I read a lot, I listen to music a lot, I travel as much as I can, and I have a killer collection of souvenir keychains (only from places I've been).

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