In October of 2011, I moved from Boston to Seattle to reboot my life.

I had no job, my housing plans had fallen through, I barely knew two people in town (who were friends of my sister), and I brought only what I could carry with me on the plane.

I had never lived outside of New England.

We get to choose what our lives look like. I'm looking for someone else who wants to choose to build something unique.

I'm a musician/educator, mostly a singer, and I consider myself one of the lucky ones. After I earned my Master's and taught in Boston with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, I decided to quit my job and move cross country to pursue a career in performance. I do the opera thing, some musical theater, and my own singer-songwriter stuff.

Sometimes I do it in crappy bars. Sometimes I do it with famous musicians.

Currently, I'm touring my one man show in Boston and New York, teaching at two local music schools, and just signed a 10 month contract with the Seattle Opera to do a cycle of three world premieres. Let's just say that I keep busy.

I give a heckuva back massage, and I hold my own in a pun-off.

How much I look like an INFJ, but I'm really an INTJ. Clearly.

Books:
Catcher in the Rye, Blankets, The Perks of being a wallflower, anything by David Sedaris, anything by Kelly Link, Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Home in New England, Anything by Chuck Klosterman, God's Debris (by the guy who writes Dilbert), Care of the Soul, Blink, The Tipping Point, A Single Man, anything by Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, Oscar Wilde

Music:
The Beatles, My Brightest Diamond, The Shins, Queen, Sufjan Stevens, John Coltrane, Ben Folds, Miles Davis, Debussy, Puccini, Rufus Wainwright, Arvo Part, Dr. Dog, Steve Reich, The Decemberists, Simon and Garfunkel, Blood Sweat and Tears, Amanda Palmer (Dresden Dolls), Owen Pallett, Nico Muhly, Regina Spektor...

Movies:
The Princess Bride, Clue, Murder By Death, Amelie, Lord of the Rings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kill Bill, American Splendor, I Heart Huckabees, Once, Stranger than Fiction, American Beauty, A Single Man

TV:
Firefly, Pushing Daisies, 30Rock, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Six Feet Under, BtVS, Mad Men, Modern Family, Studio 60, Extras, Archer, Angel, West Wing, Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Sherlock

Podcasts:
Radiolab, This American Life, The Moth, Selected Shorts

Food:
Pasta, Indian, Chicken every way under the sun

The internet, artistic fulfillment, "me time," some kind of nature, music, the people I choose to have in my life

My artistic goals, my plans for the next 5 hours, 24 hours, week, season, year, my relationships, Big Ideas, where I've already been and what I've already done.

Typical?

I used to be a Catholic Republican that drank Mountain Dew and was abstaining until marriage. Things change.

You can manage to not take it personally if I don't respond.

You want to climb a tree with me.

You're okay with an intelligent, funny guy who's often stuck inside his own head.

I'm looking for someone with a Wilde wit, Gyllenhaal grin, and ottery bod. Bonus points if you're around 5'10'', up for an adventure, and read XKCD.