Now it goes to 177
1) I was born in Casper, Wyoming
2) seven months before Nixon resigned his Presidency.
3) I was 33 days late
4) cesarian.
5) I am the oldest of three.
6) I am the only one who is not married.
7) Before becoming a performer, more people in the world knew me as Gene David than Gene
8) My few worldly possessions (a printer and second hand furniture) lives in Baltimore, MD
9) for now,
10) which I visit about 100 days a year.
11) The rooms in the first floor of the house I live in are used for a home school class room,
12) a painting and stained glass studio,
13) and a tattoo parlor.
14) No, I do not have any tattoos.
15) If is started, I would never stop.
16) I have only purchased one piece of new furniture in my life
17) which was a mattress.
18) I was once called “Brother Blue” by a Franciscan Priest
19) who raps
20) and plays jazz bass
21) when I had blue hair.
22) I hate being late,
23) even if I know everyone else is going to be late.
24) When I grow up I would like to be like Jerry Goebel,
25) Michael Carotta, and
26) Malcom Gladwell.
27) I love travel.
28) I have visited all 50 states
29) driven in and out of all 48 continental states
30) and performed in 43 states.
31) I have also visited Canada (lots)
32) Iceland (five times)
33) Ireland/Norther Ireland
34) Italy
35) Spain (twice)
36) Ecuador
37) Benin
38) Togo
39) Ghana
40) Norway
41) Mexico
42) Costa Rica
43) and China
44) I lived in Ecuador for a month
45) y estudiè español
46) Spain for a month
47) y estudiè español y flamenco.
48) No, I won’t demonstrate for you.
49) I hope to visit 40 countries by 40
50) visit defined as spending at least 6 days (seeing St Peter’s doen’t mean you have seen Rome)
51) I am way behind
52) because I keep going back to places I love.
53) I would love to live in the Far East for a year.
54) My favorite author is Paulo Coelho
55) I am dyslexic
56) have ADHA
57) and social anxiety. (through a lot of work, I have basically licked this)
58) All the fingernails on my left hand are painted black
59) so I can tell my left from my right
60) and I am not kidding about that.
61) When I am home I listen to my XM Radio at least 10 hrs a day.
62) I own a TV
63) but it is in my closet
64) and is only watch once or twice a year.
65) I try to rock climb everyday that I am not traveling (I have let my rock gym membership laps for the time being)
66) I love my work
67) (if you can call it work)
68) I can get out of a straight jacket
69) pick off little green army men with a bull whip
70) ride a unicycle
71) ride a mini bike
72) juggle five balls
73) eat fire
74) and do a handful of card tricks
75) (not all at once)
76) but I wish I could.
77) One night I did card tricks for every person in a pub in Norther Ireland
78) in groups of two or three people
79) and didn’t pay for a drink all night.
80) I am a certified clinical hypnotist
81) and I do hypnosis stage shows.
82) I have been known to see 6 movies in the theater in one week
83) and as many as 3 in one day
84) almost always alone
85) Touch of Evil is one of my favorite movie
86) Movies I would recommend to anyone are 39 Steps
87) Run Lola Run
88) The Usual Suspects
89) Hi-Fidelity (the book as well)
90) A movie I would recommend to some people is Waking Life
91) I try to go to mass daily
92) I have a bite mark on my right hand from 1991
93) the bite is human
94) because I was tickling someone who didn’t want to be tickled
95) I have a secret crush on Deborah Gibson
96) when I was growing up I did not have a crush on Debbie Gibson
97) but i did on Susana Hoff.
98) I also have a secret crush on both of The Ditty Bops
99) I am working on my second book,
100) which means it is a long way from being done.
101) In high school I was on the math team
102) from time to time I bust out my pocket protector
103) I graduated form the Catholic University of America
104) with a degree in computer science
105) the year I graduated I was the only comp. sci. major to graduate
106) in the three previous years one person transferred to another college
107) the other 9 left the program because it was too hard.
108) It marked the only time I graduated at the top of my class.
109) Iceland is my personal spiritual homeland
110) The Icelandic Horse is a magic creature
111) which I can talk to
112) I drive a 96 Mitsubishi Mirage
113) which has been rear ended twice
114) and hit with a boulder thrown from the shadows while I was driving 40 in the middle of night.
115) I did not call the police any of those times
116) I loose sleep over wasting my giftedness
117) not being honestly who I am
118) leading people away from their dreams
119) and not have the courage to follow my own.
120) I was an all-state soccer goalkeeper (twice)
121) I wish I was a better dancer
122) I enjoy giving back rubs
123) I use to write lots of letters
124) and wish I did more today
125) Curently my favorite charities are ONEFamily OUTReach
126) The Santa Maria Foundations (Which supororts Santa Maria del Maxicano)
127) Catholic Relief Service
128) Catholic Campaign for Human Development
129) Heifer International
130) and Locks of Love
131) which I am growing my hair out for (a third time)
132) I lived on the streets of DC
133) for a week in college
134) to bring awareness to the homeless ministries on campus
135) I was a season ticket holder for the Washington National inaugural season
136) it was a stupid finical move
137) but it was a fun summer
138) I made 51 of 81 home games
139) I love shoes
140) but have a hard time finding the right size
141) because me feet are so big
142) I was once asked if I was a clown by a 6 year old
143) after I said “no” she asked why I was wear clown shoes
144) I had to take off my shoes to prove to her that my feet where in fact just that big
145) While in a shoe store in Barcelona, it brought me great joy to send a pair of shoes back because
146) they were too big
147) and I was able to ask for smaller shoes in Spanish.
148) I am still not sure which part made me happier.
149) If I were ever to lock myself away for three months to write a book I would do it in Bergan, Norway.
150) I was two months short of my 21st birthday when I kissed a female the first time.
151) I wish I knew were she was.
152) I have held a baby penguin in my arms
153) a Rhinoceros Beetle in my hand
154) played with a baby monkey
155) caught a taranchula
156) had a baby sloth nuzzle my hand
157) and seen 10,000 puffins in the wild.
158) I act with great passion
159) often without considering how it will impact others.
160) I have never felt as old as I am.
161) I am the president of the Joia Farmer Fan Club.
162) I fancy myself a graphic designer
163) which means I am not one
164) but wish I were.
165) Vietnamese is my new favorite food.
166) I was able to order exactly what I wanted off a menu that was only in Norwegian and Vietnamese.
167) I was the only person in the restaurant who didn’t speak either language.
168) One of the few skills I truly believe I am good at is making mix tapes
169) which is no longer a useful skill.
170) I juggled in an open air drug market in Florence, Italy
171) it was almost 30 min in before I realized that is where I was (the drug market, I know I was in Italy the whole time).
172) Long walks are good for my soul.
173) I have never been able to lie to a cold wind.
174) I can fold a dollar bill in to the shape of a heart
175) and a moth
176) that has working wings.
177) I love rumble strips.

I am a die-hard libertarian, meaning I am a believer in the ability of all of to be able to make the choices we want without institutional interference. Often time’s people think that mean I am anarchist, believe we can make any choice we want with out responsibility. That is not the case. As a libertarian, I believe we can make the choices we want as long as 1) we take responsibility for the consequences of our choices and 2) we do not make a choice that infringes upon someone else’s freedom.
Sometimes when we make choices we are not simply repressing ourselves. Depending on the circumstance we are also representing our family, our school, our workplace, or our church. We can make choice that harm others.
Below is a letter that I mailed today to the head basketball coach and president of Gallaudet University in response to a choice a current CUA student made, that in some way has represented us all in a bad light. [Note: Gallaudet University is the first and only all deaf and hearing-impaired university in the world and is located in Washington, DC]
Coach DeStefano and Dr. Jordan:
It was with great interest I watched the piece on your fine school on HBO’s real sports. As a CUA alum and former athlete I was troubled by James Brown’s comments on his experience of attending a game CUA.
Please, know that the sign held up by a CU student does not represent the attitude of most students and alumni. I am very sorry that it happened. Your students deserve much better.
Below is a copy of the letter I sent to CU student news paper:
The week of March 6th HBO’s “Real Sports With Brian Gumbel” featured a story on Gallaudet athletics. I watch the story with interest. As a student at CUA I completed against them in soccer and as employ of the Sports Information Office I regularly saw them play in many more sports. I was always amazed at their ability to compete a very high level. Competing sports without the ability to verbally communicate is a great disadvantage, and they always did this with grace.
At the end of the piece, Brian was asking James Brown, who did the piece, a few questions. When he asked, “Who does Gallaudet play?” James replied, “York and CUA.” He then went on to explain at a game he went to at CUA one of the students was holding up a sign which read, “Win or loss, after the game we can still hear.”
When I heard this I was mortified and embarrassed. James did point out that a CUA official quickly removed the sign, but the damage was done. We, past and present alumi, were painted in a very bad light because of the horrible choice of one student.
Gene Monterastelli
Class of 1996

Almost everything we thought we knew as absolute truth about the world, the mind and the body 1000 years ago we now know is wrong. (e.g. a flat world)
Almost everything we thought we knew as absolute truth about the world, the mind and the body 500 years ago we now know is wrong. (e.g. the body has systems of mind, heart and stomach)
Almost everything we thought we knew as absolute truth about the world, the mind and the body 150 years ago we now know is wrong. (e.g. there was no value in a doctor washing his hands before working on the next patient)
It would be logical to believe that 500 years from now they are going to look back at our understanding of the world, mind and body, everything we hold as absolute true, as silly and uninformed.

I have entered the world of myspace.com
http://myspace.com/genedavid
and no, Tom is not my friend.