I am sharp, warm, and a tad quixotic. I glide from reflexive unpredictability to even more reflexive unpredictability with ease. I am made of metal and taste like fire. I don't conform to some archetype you might have about me based on my appearance or even interests. Get to know me and find out what I mean. I am an intriguing mix of emotional intelligence and social myopia. A broadcaster, raconteur, rabble rouser, and general fuckabout.

I am finishing my bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland majoring in English, but I wouldn't say my major is the only thing that defines who I am and my base of interests.
After I graduate I hope to do something that will make me happy and keep me creatively fulfilled, perhaps write about music or become a broadcaster of some form. I
was an acquisitions editor of a literary publication in the Baltimore area. I currently run an on campus radio show. I am starting to write music reviews for that same station. I was a marketing intern for the Music Kids program from June through August of 2012. I am working on developing my first short form staged comedy radio production. If you are actually trying to understand what the heck I am talking about, feel free to ask! More importantly, I have a very decent shot at getting an internship with SiriusXM Satellite Radio this summer in DC, because I applied to three internships with an employee referral. This means a lot to me, because it's a passion of mine, regardless of pay. I would hypothetically work in the programming department of some sort (music, talk, and sports). Apparently I will be working for the SiriusXM station The Loft, which is surreal, because this has been a dream of mine forever. I will keep you updated, ladies. Also, I think I am going to start taking tango lessons to instill a stronger sense of work ethic and self discipline while also finding my personal rhythm. I may be straight, but I am still a huge queen. Take that for what you will.

I am quite an impressive singer/performer. I love to act.
In the past I have enjoyed doing Shakespeare and a play that was basically performance art. Being out of my comfort zone, sometimes.

I have an awesome and ineffable energy and spark about me! My intensity is couched in whimsy. My friend Jesse says that "Your life is an epigram calculated to make people aware." Take that for what you will. Physically, I need updated pictures, because I am in the midst of losing substantial weight. I completely trimmed/shaved my beard off temporarily.I have a scarily encyclopedic understanding/knowledge of popular music and am a delightfully reflexive conversationalist. Supposedly I have a huge personality, and an even bigger heart.

Favorite Music: XTC are criminally underappreciated. The Beatles, Lou Reed, Lambchop, Sleater Kinney, Leonard Cohen, Television
Personalities,The Magnetic Fields, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Smashing Pumpkins, Robyn Hitchcock, Wall of
Voodoo, A Tribe Called Quest, The Shins, U.N.K.L.E, Blur, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Zappa, The Mothers of Invention, Tom Waits, Billy Joel, Radiohead, The Talking Heads, P-Funk, Hefner,The Kinks, Mark Robinson and related projects, Ben Folds Five, Miles Davis, R.E.M., The Soft Boys, Elton John, Mission of Burma, Neil Young, Elvis Costello, They Might Be Giants, The Pop Group, John Lennon, James Brown, David Bowie, Roy Orbison, Erik Satie, Outkast, The Beastie Boys, Leo Kottke, Public Enemy, New Order, The Band, Louis Armstrong, Flying Nun Compilation stuff, Van Morrison, Big Star, Buddy Holly, Roxy Music, Bjork, Squeeze (especially
the singles), The Cure, The Pixies, The Smiths, Joy Division,
Husker Du, The Byrds, Otis Redding, Camper Van Beethoven, Slint,Henry Mancini, Television, Sebadoh, Guided By Voices, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, Ween,Love,
Stevie Wonder, Captain Beefheart,Wire, Harry Nilsson,The Chills, Joni Mitchell, Love,Lambchop, St. Vincent,
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Medications, Kurt Vile, The Evens, The Olivia Tremor Control, Julian Cope!!!

Favorite TV Shows: Mr. Show with Bob and David, I find the show Louie really life affirming, Curb
Your Enthusiasm, Certain ,Stand up comedians: two faves are Louis Ck and Marc Maron, Freaks and Geeks, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,Arrested Development, Sarah Silverman Program, Strangers
With Candy, Monty Python, and Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, Larry Sanders Show, Comedy Bang Bang, Bunk, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.

Favorite Movies: F For Fake, Taste of Cherry, Punch Drunk Love, The Conversation,
Unforgiven, Magnolia, A Clockwork Orange, Network,The Aristocrats, Comedians of
Comedy, Happiness,Marjoe, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Life
of Brian, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, I Heart Huckabees,
Thank You For Smoking, Synechdoche, New York, The Shawshank Redemption, This is Spinal Tap, Sideways, A Serious Man, The Royal Tenebaums,
The Graduate, Schindler's List, Waiting For Guffman, Midnight
Cowboy, 40 Year Old Virgin, There Will Be Blood, Fargo, Superbad, Bananas, Wet Hot American Summer, Youth In Revolt, Playtime, Happiness, Spalding Gray Monologues,12 Angry Men

Favorite Podcasts: That's right I added a category because I am a huge audiophile and love theater of the mind, especially if it's of a comedic or slightly political nature: The Sound of Young America, Jordan, Jesse, Go!, Comedy Bang Bang, Wtf with Marc Maron, You Made it Weird, The Nerdist, Doug Loves Movies (it's spotty and guest dependent, but still solid), The Todd Glass Show, and The David Feldman comedy podcast. I tend to go more by guest, however I almost never miss an episode of Comedy Bang Bang and WTF.

Favorite Books: Zombie Spaceship Wasteland by Patton
oswalt, Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording The Beatles by Geoff Emerick, A little bit of Vonnegut, a little bit of Sagan, Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris , The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Invisible by Paul Auster, Autobiography of The Ex Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson. If anyone has any reccomendations tell me. I am getting really in to Alan Watts right now. I am currently reading Kafka on The Shore by Murakami. Faulkner and Joyce are great. As of now, I actively hate Nietzsche and his philosophy.

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...but don't we all? Believe it or not, how not to overdo things. I think I have a huge appreciation for William F. Buckley, not for his shitty conservative political views, but for his ability to meander and say something in nine minutes that could take one. How often certain musical preferences accompany certain political beliefs/lifestyle preferences. Do young post college professionals who live in DC proper and are on OkCupid come from a factory that makes predictably boring people? I earnestly want to know the answer to this. Are there secret meetings where young professionals meet and discuss how best to be predictable and boring?

Living.

We are all one through the third eye of the Goddess Yetha. (Go ahead and google it).

Also, I have a shameless love for karaoke. I really hate most blues-rock, which apparently bothers most people. Basically I am just a regular guy that's the three f's: firm, fair, and fun. Despite all my quirks, and maybe even because of them, I will probably be famous in the next five-ten years (at most) in my niche pursuing my passion. Not bad, ehh?

If you agree that the Tom Verlaine song "Souvenir From A Dream" is the best song title ever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V_PGJwAapM You are an intellectually curious and free spirited individual. Please leave any emotional distance at the door (also, leave your coats and hats). If you regard yourself as stuffy, we probably won't get along well. Lastly and more importantly, if you are interested in me after reading this, message me.