Date men from United States / California / Oxnard, 42 year old

Date single man from Oxnard, United States. I was a practicing attorney in California and hated every minute of it, so I decided to follow my bliss, my passion and am now a candidate for the PHD in Philosophy. I am an intensely driven person and forging a great career is my main focus in life, though I can be just as committed to building a loving and solid relationship, with the right girl. I've come to realize, rather late in fact, that for a man to not open up his heart and life to a woman, is perhaps to miss out on something: a deeper, richer, more spiritual existence.
Very little of enduring value lands on your lap out of nothing, ex nihilo; not freedom, success, individuality, nothing. One has to fight and struggle to create oneself, to make one's ideals and dreams become reality. As it is said in Spanish: "La vida es una Lucha." Before all the vicissitudes of Fortune and before all the precariousness that haunts that good fight, internalize and draw your strength from King Leonidas' words: "No retreat; no surrender, and that is Spartan Law. And by Spartan Law, we will stand and fight, and die." There is so much profound meaning to be had from that joyful struggle! Let's say yes to this dance of life, even though it hurts.
While Philosophy and Literature are the great passions of my life, I am not overbearing with them. In other words, I also enjoy talking about the weather. I also love and can't live without music--both rock n roll (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pearl Jam, Red Fang, Genghis Tron, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Metallica, Tool, Sevendust, Deftones, White Stripes, DURAN DURAN, BLACK TUSK, BARONESS, ISIS, NEUROSIS, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, CULT OF LUNA, KYLESA, MOUTH OF THE ARCHITECT, PELICAN, RUSSIAN CIRCLES, HORSEBACK, System of a Down, MONOTONIX!, JACK WHITE, etc.) and Classical (lately, I can't seem to get enough of Wagner's Der Ring des Nimbelungen; RAVEL; POULENC; DEBUSSY, SCHOSTACHOVICH). I spend lots of money downloading the most brilliant music, as my taste is impeccable. And I don't just enjoy music: it literally sends me into rapturous transports, inspiriting me with vistas of power, promise, profound beauty, and ideal possibility--and, with a heighten sense of the meaning of things...
Oh, and I own a five year old Yorkshire Terrier named Dewey, my buddy, my boy. His name comes from the great American thinker, John Dewey--on whom I am writing my dissertation, and who, in the words of Noam Chomsky, was "the greatest thinker of the twentieth century."
I'm the most fascinating man I know...