Who doesn't love self-summaries? Me either. Some of the typical online-profile cliches that best describe me are laid-back; easy-going; funny; intelligent; adventurous; and that timeless pearl of obviousness, someone who loves to laugh. I'm primarily interested in making friends, but am open to any other possibility that might arise in the normal course of a relationship. I just don't happen to have my radar set to "girlfriend," "wife," "paramour," or anything so specific at the moment. I like intelligent, passionate, creative people, and would very much like to have more of them in my life.

Slinging used books in a part of town not usually teeming with readers, looking for that ever-elusive job as a writer/editor, and spending my free time amongst books, movies, music, and good friends.

Several things, but bragging about what I'm good at is definitely not one of them. But I suppose communication, comprehension, and being a generally likable fellow who's quick with a quip and fun to be with are on my top ten of things I don't suck at.

My eyes, my disarming charm and wit, my inability to speak of myself with any degree of seriousness.

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 Kurosawa, 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 books, music, 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. I guess they're just into sexting.

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 enjoy a platonic relationship with, date, go to shows with, listen to records with, or just to chat. I am open to all types of relationships, and am mostly interested in meeting new people.