I'm an American English teacher and editor living in Istanbul, Turkey for the past six and a half years.  I was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Portland, Maine (a little north of Boston) and lived in Boston for four years.  I really enjoy traveling, so I want to make as many friends as possible from other countries to find out more about different places in the world. Who knows? Maybe a really good friendship will come out of it. I'm very openminded and intellectual​ly curious, politically liberal. Studied politics and history at university.  No topics are off limits.  I can discuss anything with anyone. I enjoy dance, writing, all styles of music (from hardcore metal to jazz, blues and classical), art, history, politics, philosophy..​.anything that will get me thinking.  I'm a sincere person with a passion for books and films.  I insist that others be sincere as well.  I've been told that I seem about half my age.  Is that good or bad?  You decide. I am looking to make good friends with open minds who want to have stimulating conversation​s and possibly make a good friend. :)

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Any age or gender welcome, just have something to say, be interested, non-judgemen​tal and interesting.​ :)  Sincerity, compassion and intelligence​ are appreciated the most.

Films, books, music, sports, psychology, philosophy, literature, religions, spirituality​, politics, science and speculation of all kinds. :)  I'm also interested in Sufism.  Anyone with the same interests who would like to chat is more than welcome to say hi. :)

Tool, Sting, Tori Amos, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson, Maurice Ravel, Rammstein, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, Ministry, Radiohead, Evanescence,​ 30 Seconds to Mars, Sisters of Mercy, David Bowie, REM, Metallica, Alice in Chains...

Donnie Darko, The English Patient, Atonement, 300, Requiem for a Dream, Memento, Un Coeur En Hiver, Tous Les Matins Du Monde, Schindler's List, The Matrix, The Human Stain, Closer, Ivan the Terrible, Full Metal Jacket, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Great Expectations​, The Basketball Diaries, Saw I-V, Seven, Trainspottin​g, The Secretary...​

What's a TV Show?

The Trial by Franz Kafka, The Stranger and the Fall by Albert Camus, Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera, The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis,​ Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, The Basketball Diaries, Bastard Out of Carolina, Snow Falling on Cedars, New York Trilogy by Paul Auster...