Like everyone else, I hate trying to sum myself up, and like everyone I like to fancy myself to be intelligent, creative, and charming. Whether other people see me that way is a different matter, but unless the people I know have been lying to me, it might just be true. I enjoy music more than the average person and have what could be considered way too much of it.

Currently working at a used book store, previously working as a writer/editor, and hoping to get back into that. I spend my free time reading, playing music, listening to music, and enjoying this city i've called home for just over two years.

Conversation, relationships, kissing, petting, "it", knowing way too much about things few people care about.

BOOKS: Master and Margarita, Ubik, Confederacy Of Dunces, Requiem For A Dream, Middlesex, The Corner, anything by Auster, Ballard, Russell Banks, Julian Barnes, Beckett, Paul Bowles, Richard Braughtigan, Italo Calvino, Camus, Checkov, Conrad, DeLillo, Dickens, Dostoyevsky Roddy Doyle, Richard Ford, Garcia-Marquez, Hawthorne, Hesse, Huxley, Henry James, Joyce, Kafka, Kesey, Kundera, Jumpa Lahiri, Mellville, Proust, Pynchon, Francine Prose, Salinger, Sartre, Will Self, Upton Sinclair, Jane Smiley, Terry Southern, Steinbeck, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Twain, Vonnegut, DF Wallace (RIP), Zola.

MOVIES: Film Noir, Silent, Foreign, Underground. Stuff by Kirusawa, Welles, Coen Brothers, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang... your basic Criterion Collection stuff. Plus way more than I care to list or you care to read.

MUSIC: An exhaustive, and seemingly neverending list, which contains but is no way limited to: Joy Division, LCD Soundsystem, Fela, Can, Kraftwerk, Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Al Green, Zombies, Kinks, Bat For Lashes, Who, Gang Of Four, Joan As Police Woman, Brightblack Morning Light, Marvin Gaye, Brian Eno, Funkadelic, Devo, Kings Of Convenience, Jay Reatard, St Vincent, The Cure, Damned, Kurt Vile, Last Shadow Puppets, OM, PJ Harvey, Sun Araw, Trad Gras Och Stenar, 13th Floor Elevators, CocoRosie, The Juan McLean, The Pretty Things...etc etc etc

FOOD: Anything of the ethnic variety, such as Indian, Thai, Mediterranean, African, Japanese, etc etc

There aren't many things I couldn't live without, but some of my favorite things are my books, my records, my iPod, my bike, my computer, and something else, but i can't think of it. But not a cell phone. I've recently gone without a cell phone and find it very liberating. I read an article that said that 75% of people said they'd rather give up sex than give up their cell phone. That is pure insanity.

The who, the what, the where, the why... the meaning of it all... food, sex, communication, music, the concept of nonexistence, the origins of language, that thing over there, and that one guy, you know the one, he's always walking and talking, always wears a shirt... the Simpsons.

Out to dinner with a friend, or home with my son, whom I have with me three nights a week, or occasionally at a show.

I'm open to most things, so there's not much that's really private.

You're looking for someone to hang out with, date, go to shows with, listen to records with, or just to chat.