The universe is permeated with the odor of kerosene....

I'm just trying to keep my socks and other shreddables out of range of my dog. Oh, and I write a lot and I have a tech job and play/DJ/obsess on music and like kissin'.

Staying up past my bedtime.

I usually look a little more dapper than the situation calls for.

The below is strictly to improve my OKC internal SEO... e.g. if you're doing searches for "Gyorgi Ligeti," I probably want to do you, and so I list it here. You can skip/skim the below and just go "oh shit, he really likes STUFF" and you'll basically get the deal:

Music:
I love the Smile Sessions box set, Roky Erickson, Frog, T. Rex, Bowie, Luigi Russolo, White Fence, the Velvet Underground, Love, Waylon Jennings, the Buzzcocks, Sandy Denny, Lester Bangs, the Growlers, Aphrodite's Child, Loretta Lynn, PiL, the Impressions, Gyorgi Ligeti, Bobb Bruno, Tony Conrad with Faust, Goblin, really obscure garage and psychedelic bands, X-Ray Spex, Big Whup, Ty Segall, the Rite of Spring, Skeletonwitch, really obscure bubblegum bands, the Monks, the 1910 Fruitgum Company, the Zombies, Lady Gaga's Cherry Tree Sessions, Emitt Rhodes, the Strange Boys, the Bee Gees, 60 Watt Kid, Glenn Gould, Johnny Cash, Belle & Sebastian, Slade, John Cale, Fairport Convention, the Kinks, the Mummies, Berlin, Can, surf music... if you've ever said you like "everything but country," you should just go die now.

Yummy stuff:
I love pasta, strange recipes, exotic stuff, Thai, Irish stew, homemade apricot pie, the Veganomicon, plantain stew, veganized Thanksgiving fare, dumplings, making my own seitan--I love to cook but often don't have time.

The Hysterical:
Reggie Watts, Don Rickles, Patton Oswalt, Mr. Show cast, Monty Python cast, SCTV, Henry Rollins (only when funny, not when musical in a post-BF capacity), UCB Theater, Daily Show, Flight of the Conchords, Garfunkel & Oates, MST3K, Black Adder, Charlyne Yi, Woody Allen, Slap Shot, Bill Hicks, Steve Martin's Wild and Crazy Guy album, the State cast, Petronius, Phyllis Diller, Ovid, Trailer Park Boys, Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook. I once did an exquisite corpse with Paul F. Tompkins.

Dramatic/Mindblowing:
Mad Men, the frescoes of Signorelli, Ken Burns, Richard Powers, Kubrick, Mike Leigh, Bergman (either of them), silent era sci-fi, George Orwell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hitchcock, Ovid again, No Country for Old Men

The Macabre and Surreal:
Franz Kafka, Tristan Tzara, the Italian Futurists, Werner Herzog, the Marquis de Sade, Gummo, Hunter S. Thompson, British bikers who come back from the dead in the very early Seventies, Godard, Marat/Sade, Pasolini, going on a field trip up your mother's ass

people I love, moments of solitude, the human body, music, things that make/play music, the amusement I feel at so much of life (even the 'bad' stuff) which makes everything kind of fun.

the real reason why people "rioted" at the opening night of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. I mean, it's only just a ballet...

...at a loss! The Bay City Rollers have no song about Friday night.

I watch more TV than I should. Way more. Yet it seems I don't watch nearly as much as everyone else... it's weird.

You've ever bought/downloaded 10 albums at once in order to try and "cram" your understanding of a specific genre.

You want to practice your Italian with me.

You're a taxi dancer whose oddly Fellini-esque travails in love and run-ins with Ricardo Montalban and Sammy Davis, Jr. haven't crushed her indomitable, ragamuffin spirit.

You're a "goer," eh? Rrrrrr!