I'm an extreme relativist who would award myself the title of "most improved".

I like to make jokes that only I understand in the hopes that someone else gets them too.

Culturally, I am Jewish, but "religiously", I am an Atheist.

I'm one of those liberal Socialists Fox News warns you about and think our obsession with money is destroying the arts (and everything else).

I love "classical music" (I use scare quotes because that term is so flawed) from an entertainment perspective. I don't enjoy performing and I definitely don't want to teach. I just love listening to music I love and want to "spread the good word" to others.

I may have a bust of Beethoven on my desk, but I also have a TMNT poster on my wall. (It says "Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Pizza!") I see no reason not to pair Bach, with The Beatles and Mega Man music. I was raised on Mel Brooks and Monty Python and currently am most fond of The Venture Bros., Community, Parks and Rec, Louie, and The Colbert Report.

Learn more about me:
http://blogthoven.tumblr.com/

I'm an instrument peddler. Can I interest you in a cello or maybe a plastic trombone?

Being me.

Tetris.

I have a scary good memory. It's both a blessing and a curse, and as a result I can tell overly detailed stories.

Making you laugh.

Adapting, improving, evolving.

Probably my sweet 'stache.

Books: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and anything else written by Douglas Adams, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony.

Movies: A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria, Fellini's Casanova, Some Like it Hot, As Good as it Gets, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Science of Sleep, Whatever Works, The Departed, Atonement, Big Fish, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Royal Tenenbaums, Stranger than Fiction, Thank You for Smoking, Death to Smoochy.

Music: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Berlioz, Schubert, Charles Ives, Vivaldi, György Ligeti, Nino Rota, Danny Elfman, The Beatles, Gogol Bordello, Astor Piazzolla, Koji Kondo, Mega Man and similar video game music, Klezmer music.

TV: The 1967 miniseries The Prisoner is one of my favorite things EVER, Arrested Development, Colbert Report, 30 Rock, Community, Parks and Rec, South Park, Venture Bros., Frisky Dingo, Superjail!, Louie, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Twilight Zone, Boardwalk Empire.

Food: Anything spicy, exotic and new.
Indian.
Sushi.
I'm pretty sure I could survive solely on bread, cheese, and olives.

There is no way I could survive without my magic phone and the internet. I have no idea how people survived in such primitive times. When I look at my pocket monolith, I realize just how accurate "2001: A Space Odyssey" is.

Life, The Universe, and EVERYTHING!

The Canon, society, culture and the future.

How 30 Rock's use of leitmotives enhances my enjoyment of the show.

Probably something really exciting like... playing Settlers of Catan.

My health and diet were once atrocious but I've kicked my bad habits and have never been healthier nor happier!

I kinda have a man-crush on Adam Scott.

You want someone to watch Fellini films with.

Stephen Colbert is your messiah.

You (want to) know why Beethoven couldn't find his teacher.