My name is Andrew and I'm a walking contradiction. I tend to seek out pleasure and avoid pain, though I'm not sure why. Sometimes I think that I know things, but then later I come to my senses. I have also been known to laugh at my own reflection. It seems as appropriate a response as any other, don't you think?

Teaching English abroad.
Enjoying my youth while I can.
Getting involved in discussion groups and political activism.
Seeing the world.
Becoming more physically active.
Realizing my potential.
Making it up as I go along.

Being laid back, meeting new people, exploring new cities, sounding intelligent, diffusing tension, procrastinating, reading and writing, hiking and biking, debating, video games, photo-bombing, swimming, listening and giving advice, dancing, playing with animals, drawing, teaching, etc.

My booming voice and prominent brow?

Favorite Books
Fiction: 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Island, Siddhartha, The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolfe, The Cave, Cain, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, The Divine Comedy, Fahrenheit 451, Grendel, Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives, Replay, Isaac Asimov: The Complete Short Stories, American Psycho, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Hyperion and Endymion Cantos.

Nonfiction: The Moral Landscape, The End of Faith, Lying, Free Will, God is Not Great, The Essential Gandhi, The Divine Comedy, The Republic, You Can't Be Neutral On a Moving Train, The Kingdom of God is Within You, Amusing Ourselves to Death, The End of Education, Prometheus Rising, A People's History of The United States, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, The Singularity Is Near, Physics of the Impossible, First as Tragedy Then as Farce, The Myth of Digital Democracy, In the Basement of The Ivory Tower, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, Common Sense, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, An Essay on Human Understanding, You are Not a Gadget.

Favorite Movies
V for Vendetta, Agora, The Devil's Advocate, Alexander, Groundhog Day, The Dark Knight, Kingdom of Heaven, Watchmen, Inception, The Man from Earth, 300, Avatar, The Shawshank Redemption, Schindler's List, Fight Club, The Matrix Trilogy, Se7en, American Psycho, The Fifth Element, A Clockwork Orange, The Prestige, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Snatch, Good Will Hunting, Gandhi, The Last Samurai, The Godfather Trilogy, Eastern Promises, Goodfellas, When Nietzsche Wept, Solaris, A Dangerous Method, Anna Karenina, The Last Station, Office Space, Spaceballs, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, etc.

Favorite TV Shows
Game of Thrones, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Chappelle's Show, Louie, Big Love, Da Ali G Show, Extras, Six Feet Under, House, Spartacus Blood and Sand, United States of Tara, Star Trek TNG, In Treatment, Southpark, Family Guy, Married with Children, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and of course stand-up comedy.

Favorite Music
Electronic:
Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Infected Mushroom, Talamasca, U-Recken, Daft Punk, Paul Oakenfold, Massive Attack, Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery, Jochen Miller, Andrew Rayel, Paul Van Dyk, Alexander Popov, David Guetta, Darude, Cosmic Gate, Deadmau5, Benny Benassi, Justice, Basshunter, Astrix, Paranormal Attack, Skrillex, Borgore, Porter Robinson, Nero, etc.

I also enjoy classical music, rock, metal, alternative, some hip-hop, etc.

Family and friends
Books, pen and paper
The internet
Electronic music
Greek food and sushi
Traveling and the outdoors
The sun, the sea, and warm weather (at least half of the time)

Yeah I know that's more than six, please don't tell.

The absurdity of it all. Haha. Boohoo.

How much longer until my next rave?

If we know that some degree of suffering is necessary for well-being (e.g. satisfaction requires effort, thrill requires risk, love requires fear of loss, meaning requires mortality, etc.) then where does that leave us in terms of "making the world a better place"?

Why is it socially acceptable to eat some animals and not others?

When will an apocalypse or paradigm-shift save me from this superficial existence?

How can I justify my next leisure activity knowing that around 15 children have needlessly died in the time it took me to type this sentence?

Do I think too much?

Either studying, relaxing, or partying -- hard.

How does one relax hard you ask? Stay tuned and find out...

OkCupid has shown me that I'm more concerned with physical appearances than I would like to admit...

...you enjoy intellectual conversation and trying new things.

...are attracted to masculine men.

...you want to stand out from the vast majority of females who refuse to initiate...