I am an artist and writer/poet.  There exists the most simplest things that I wish to communicate to the people close to me, but somehow can not.  These simple things I would like to share with somebody through writing.  Writing allows me to truly speak in a way that my everyday language does not.

I am interested in the process of writing, and am always looking for alternative and experimental ways to encode thought into some kind of linguistic shell.  Writing letters is interesting because it opens up this process and redirects one's intentions towards a single person.  My hopes are that this process will elucidate new ideas and associations and allow me to write in ways that are distinctly different from other forms of writing.

**update[till further notice]: I am currently not in a position to take any new candidates for snail mailers because.  I had given my sanity up for adoption, and now am in the convoluted process of trying to acquire said object back into my life.  Apologies in advance.  Thank you, drive through.  (That said, I may be able to do the E-mail thing if you are exceptionally nice. :P)

Ideally, I would like to exchange handwritten letters with somebody who is well read and interested in similar things as I am.  Subject matter does not have to be deeply philosophical or involve complex linguistic metaphors, so long as it is interesting, sincere, and written with care.

I would like to hear about your distinct human experience.  Teach me something about being human.  I like facts.  I like to learn things.  Throw in some seemingly irrelevant, random trivia that you read off of a cereal box, or quote fortune cookies and explain how its meaning is directly proportionate to the speed of your digestive system.

Contemporary Art, drawing, painting, sketching, reading, writing, poetry, spoken word, listening to NPR (Selected Shorts, RadioLab, This American Life, etc), going to museums and gallery openings, learning, Psychology*, Science and the Mind, the brainnnnnn, sleep, dreams...

*I love to read about current research in Psychology and Science.

Ingrid Michaelson, Priscilla Ahn, Meiko, The Swell Season, Sia, Automatic Loveletter, CocoRosie, Circa Survive, Secondhand Serenade, Feist, Imogen Heap, Jem, Emiliana Torrini, Brandi Carlile, Kimya Dawson, Lucky Soul, Rilo Kiley, The Birds and the Bees, Nevershoutnever!, Saosin, The Stars, Thursday, Metric, Frou Frou, Bjork, Death Cab, Postal Service, Taking Back Sunday, Azure Ray, Mazzy Star, Flunk, Emily Haines and The Soft Skeletons, Electric Valentine, BOTDF, Millionaires, Amy Can Flyy, Black Kids, Crystal Castles, Kill Paradise, Nickasaur, The Kills, The Gossip, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Playradioplay, Black Kids...

Various j-pop (Utada Hikaru, Sukima Switch, Miyavi, Kusuo, Chemistry, Ozaki Yutaka, Judy and Mary, Crystal Kay, Heartsdales)

...and many more

-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Fight Club
-Waking Life
-Stranger Than Fiction
-Synechdoche NY
-The Science of Sleep
-My Neighbor Totoro
-Kiki's Delivery Service
-Harry Potter

*Right now addikted to APRIL WILDER. 

Various short story anthologies, i.e. Best American Short Stories,
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Candy by Mian Mian, Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, Alice Munro, Miranda July, Jane Austen, Shakespeare, Oliver Sacks, Laurie Colwin...

AND of course, Dictionaries and Encyclopedias.

I also read lots of stuff online.

"...you are always in the last place i look."  -Sarah Kay

"You can be my alphabet and I will be your calculator" -Sia, from 'Academia"

"...there are some great reasons for resisting language, and one of them is love." - Miranda July

"...it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence."
- Milan Kundera

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin

"When it was over, all I could think about was how this entire notion of oneself, what we are, is just this logical structure, a place to momentarily house all the abstractions." -from "Waking Life"

"Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me." -Sigmund Freud

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
Carl Jung

"Grow yourself a second heart with chambers to spare." -Marty McConnell

"There is a space between silence, and that space is you."