If you looked at me on paper you'd say "wtf is this guy's deal?" and it won't look any different on the web. I've been very stable and very unstable...seldom in between. I have friends I've had since age 3 or 4 that don't know me and will always love me and I have friends I've known for a few months that know me better than anyone...and love me. The phrases "you are in the top 5 most interesting people I've ever met" and "you are the biggest d*ckhead that everyone likes" have been used to describe me. I've been everywhere (almost) done things that lots of people do and things that no one you know has done (hopefully). I went to grad school and the school of hard knocks and graduated both with honors. I tell stories that have some people saying "good story Brett (sarcasm)" and others that have people saying "how are you still alive" Some people will remember me always because I was so unconventional and some because I changed their lives and provided hope for them (or better stated - that hope is not necessary to be happy.) I have a lot to talk to you about because I have heard and seen a lot from people like you...and people like me. Someday I will find a home with someone where I feel loved and belong...or not - either way I'll be fine.

How you would find me: Relaxed, casual dresser, seems to goof around and laugh a lot. Seems to have one of those looks on his face like a cat that just ate the family canary...or a twinkle in his eye indicating he is thinking other than pure thoughts.

What I do when I'm alone: Read, look for stuff to eat in an unstocked fridge, lift weights, listen to music, talk to people on the phone, stare off into space thinking my weird thoughts. When I can't think of anything I want or have to do or anyone I wanna talk to or anyplace I wanna go, I either pick up a guitar, take my daily inventory, or pray and go to sleep.

(Now the stuff...) I'm a divorced white male, six foot even, 185 pounds, look younger than my 47 years implies based on a random sampling of other dudes my age - unless I've been up for 3 days and haven't shaved, 44" chest, 33 inch waist, brown hair, gray-blue eyes, wear glasses most of the time, clean-shaven with occasional sideburns or goatee (like right now for instance), ethnicity is by descending proportion: Irish, German and Cherokee, speak conversational Deutsch, look like a professional business fag from 8-5:30 but am apt to look like a lot of things the rest of the evening, am health conscious...though some days you'd never guess that based on the observed self indulgence, I'm not a native Georgian I grew up on the south end of the Mountain Time Zone (Tucson), lived in Honolulu, San Francisco, San Diego, and New Orleans-all prior to 1994, so I don't care if your football team is ranked 4th in the nation and is going to "whoop the sh*t outta them Gators." Please DON'T contact me if you put little college emblem flags on your SUV on game day (Unless they're Univ. of AZ flags, and no we are NOT the damn Sun Devils, geez!), have a masters/bachelors degree in something unemployable, or do yard work enthusiastically. I love my baby daughter more than anything on earth, avoid extended family gatherings like they were police conventions, hate clutter (unless, again, if I've been up for 3 days) I like pets but people would say I'm a cat person - we seem to have a mutual understanding of each other. Dogs are too needy and they can't walk themselves. I used to party on occasion, but it wasn't gettin' drunk at Jocks and Jills before the Braves play if you get my drift. By the way I have no social diseases or chronic acquired conditions and no felony record (none of which because I wasn't trying at certain points) and plan on keeping it that way. I hate violence between people, love sarcasm and a quick wit, love to laugh, love well-read, well traveled, life-experienced people (or those who desire to be), hate Bush and everything that ever came out of him (but I spent the tax rebate anyway), think reality TV is mental masturbation for people with nothing interesting happening in their lives (a.k.a. most Americans - though I have been known to sit through an episode of Intervention), I do make TV time for Breaking Bad and Nip Tuck however. I drive like people on the road owe me money so buckle up, think society's rules are merely suggestions that are open to interpretation, and finally; respect peoples boundaries and accept their proclivities as part of who they are - especially if they happen to be fun and um...arousing.

Mundane and less arcane bits: I enjoy eclectic just about everything from music to history to film to literature (and lighter reading). I'm not a rubber necker, I actually stop and crawl around on the train wrecks (curiosity kills more than cats by the way) - You would think me an extrovert but I am exactly the opposite - I'm better with a small group of people I know rather than a room of strangers. I'm full of private insecurities and demons like most people I know...I'm probably just better acquainted with mine that most people and know how to live with them. Politically? I prefer other countries' political systems and refuse to talk about Obama and McWhat'shisface...so please don't ask me to go down that rat hole. I can't wait until Mexico moves up here and abandons that beautiful Pacific coast they have so I can go homestead :-) I'm not religious but I read the Bible and a couple of other meditations daily, it's all there somewhere they tell me. I like to go to church every week...I don't know or care why...I just go. I prefer Buckhead or Northpoint Church if I'm in a rockin' metrosexual kinda God mood, Veritas if I'm feeling granolaesque, Catholic if I wanna look at shiny icons and plaid skirts, and German Lutheran if I'm feeling punitive and austere. I have some(lots) of guilty pleasures, most now kept in check. There are things I've done and seen that you can't shower off and that I'll never go all the way home from but it was what it was and now it is what it is, I am who I am - not what I've done...and I keep getting a little happier every day. I get my mail in Tucker, Atlanta and Chamblee, crave routine but it drives me stir-crazy, I live best in transition, am a survivor and extremely resourceful when the chips are down. I don't remember when but at some point it dawned on me that life is not something you need bothering trying to figuring out...just take the day as it comes and try to do the next right thing, and the next and the next. When I don't get what I want out of life and don't know what to do about it I thank God for what I do have and ask him to tell me what he wants done. I know the difference between Hope, Faith and Luck.

Favorite Bible Passage: Numbers 32:23

Give me the question to this answer...for $1,000 Alex: "The triumph of hope over experience" So there you go, I guess...your play :-)

...and this one - what exactly does "Down to Earth" mean? Almost every woman on here seems to be afflicted with this condition. I'd love to chat with someone that is "Up from Earth."

First Date you say?

depends on how adventurous you are - anything from a cup of coffee and conversation - to meeting in the dark in a large public park for some, um, "non-conversational" activities ;-) and everything in between. love off-beat movies, off-beat bands of any genre (currently listening a lot to Johnette Napolitano, old New Order, Wrinkle Neck Mules...and of course the Drive-By Truckers), avant guard art, good political graffiti art (Banksy, etc.), cultural events, clubs (some), dang near any ethnic cuisine...and the requisite long walks on the beach :-/ - I hate little smiley faces but there is no other way to express emotion on a text-based form field. Text is just text if there is no context - why not chat?