If you're into Myers-Briggs, I am an ENTP, although I sometimes test a false-positive as an INTP. These are two of the rarest personality types, most often associated with lawyers and architects, respectively. Some historians speculate that Thomas Edison was an ENTP and Albert Einstein was an INTP.

I am currently a music student. I am finishing my music teacher certification at WCSU, AKA WestConn. I previously studied music at Syracuse University. I am a brother of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America and take my role as a Sinfonian quite seriously in my daily life.

Aside from music, I really love memetic propagation, geometry, astrophysics, languages, and walks around town. I love cities and urban life, as well as time spent in more natural surroundings. I'm not religious and don't belong to a church, but I really like old churchy people. I like playing with pre-school-age children and dogs. My favorite color is probably green, but everything I own is orange because I went to Syracuse. I'm really proud of my hometown and will give a tour to anyone who will come visit.

-I'm devoting my life to teaching kids how to use their brains for the good of humankind.

-I am working to instill in all people an awareness of music's important role in the enrichment of the human spirit.

-I achieve the impossible on a daily basis, and inspire others to do the same. It's my nature.

-I promote secular humanist values and social justice.

Sight-reading.

Breathing (no, seriously. I'm an advanced breather).

I have pretty good rhythm, but I have excellent feel.

Transposing using solfège.

I can calculate interval vectors faster than most people can add.

In real life, most people hear me before they see me. In fact, most people hear OF me before they hear me. I'm learning to use that to my advantage.

BOOKS:
Classic American Literature (especially Mark Twain), J.R.R. Tolkien, The Inner Game of Tennis, To Be or Not to Bop, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft

MOVIES:
Muppet movies, Heroic stories, Really long movies, Batman, It's a Wonderful Life, Amadeus, Fantasia (1940 and 2000), V for Vendetta, Gandhi, Movies from The Disney Renaissance, Star Wars

The Lion King is the single greatest human accomplishment.

MUSIC:
JAZZ:
Big Band Jazz:
Count Basie, Stan Kenton, Les Brown & His Band of Renown, Duke Ellington, Buddy Rich, Benny Goodman, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis and the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, The JALC Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson, Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, Cab Calloway, Louis Prima, Artie Shaw, Charles Mingus, and even Glenn Miller
Other Jazz:
Jaco Pastorius, Jon Faddis, Allen Vizzutti, Bill Chase, Wynton Marsalis, Clifford Brown, Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Bird and Diz, Miles Davis, Jacques Loussier, Nestor Torres, Sonny Rollins, The Manhattan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin, Chick Corea and/or Reutrn to Forever, Ray Pizzi, Jim Self
PROFESSIONAL/ART/"CLASSICAL" MUSIC:
"Classical" Composers:
Franz Biebl, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Arvo Pärt, PAUL HINDEMITH, Игорь Фёдорович Стравинский (Stravinsky), Maurice Ravel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Алексaндр Николaевич Скрябин (Scriabin), Gregorio Allegri, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, William Billings, William Schuman, Horatio Parker, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Roger Sessions, W. Francis McBeth, Conlon Nancarrow, Walter Piston, Fisher Tull, Eric Ewazen, Vincent Persichetti, Václav Nelhýbel, Howard Hanson, William Grant Still, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Jeffrey Van, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland
Film Composers:
James Horner, Alan Silvestri, Rachel Portman, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, Alan Menken, Philip Glass, Danny Elfman, Max Steiner, Ennio Morricone, Michael Giacchino, Monty Norman, John Barry, Bernard Herrmann, Howard Shore, Thomas Newman, Basil Poledouris, James Newton Howard (except for anything by M. Night Shyamalan), Michael Kamen, Tan Dun, Trevor Rabin, Hans Zimmer (but only because of The Lion King)
OTHER MUSIC:
Ragtime, Prince and/or The Time, Lebo M, Mariah Carey, The Canadian Brass, Stevie Wonder, Nat King Cole, Christmas Music, X-Mas Music, Hip Hop, Dispatch, Carolina Crown, Drum Corps in general, Classic Rock (especially Queen and AC/DC), African American Spirituals, Béla Fleck and/or The Flecktones, Victor Wooten, Sinfonia Songs, The Drifters, Bobby McFerrin, West Side Story, Billy Joel, Josh Dodes Band, Tower of Power, Chicago (Transit Authority), Earth Wind & Fire, Blood Sweat & Tears, Motown, Gavin Greenaway, Regina Spektor, Supertramp, Yes, Kansas, Elton John, Styx, The Beatles (Abby Road, especially), David Bowie, The Mamas and the Papas, Thurl Ravenscroft, The Acoustix, Bluegrass Student Union, Gas House Gang, FRED, Glad, Rockapella, The Blenders, The Bobs, DaVinci's Notebook, The Persuasions, Boyz II Men, *NSYNC, Collegiate A Cappella, Weird Al Yankovic, TV Theme Songs

FOOD:
Chinese, Fruit Salad (yummy, yummy), Lots of Soups, I have an unusual predilection for corned-beef hash

I'll add one, since people do that. Hmmm... What should it be? TV shows? That's pretty lame. I like Whale Wars and Jeopardy!, though. How about...

STAND-UP COMEDIANS:
Eddie Izzard, Mitch Hedberg, Bill Cosby, Lewis Black, Billy Crystal, Wanda Sykes, Jim Gaffigan, Brian Reegan, Victor Borge, Steven Wright, Gabriel Iglesias, NOT Dane Cook

1. Raindrops on roses
2. Whiskers on kittens
3. Bright copper kettles
4. Warm woolen mittens
5. Brown paper packages tied up with strings
6. Phrygian half cadences...

OK, how about a real attempt at this inane activity...

1. My trumpet Mariska. She goes almost everywhere I go.
2. An A=440 tuning fork.
3. Some kind of timepiece.
4. My Subaru. It gets me places.
5. My debit card. I'm officially "off" cash.
6. My cheap sunglasses. I wear them nonstop, especially while driving.

I guess I don't really have much material need, besides the obvious necessities. It was really difficult for me to come up with that list.

...whether (if I ever have children/adopt) I want my kids to see the Star Wars movies in the order I, II, III, IV, V, VI or IV, V, VI, I, II, III.

...my commute (45-75 minutes each way between Meriden and Danbury).

...the content of my current course work.

...what to write next in my composition project of the moment.

At home, practicing the trumpet or watching movies.

At the symphony.

Playing a gig.

Updating my OkC profile the same way one updates a bonsai tree.

Reading.

On warm-weather Friday nights there will probably be some barbershopping out on a porch somewhere.

When people ask, I tell them it was the global economic meltdown that landed me in a small state school after attending a large private university. While this was a factor, it is hardly the whole story. It's not that I think people will think less of me if they heard the truth; just that it's a really long story, and I don't feel like spending that much time talking about myself.

...
Please do, even if it's just to tell me that my profile makes me come off like an ass-hat.

I will message you back, no matter what. I promise.

Specifically, you should message me if you are (one or more of the following):

-A musician, artist, dancer, poet, actor, cinematographer, or other right-brained professional.

-Someone who I have messaged, either recently or in the more distant past.

-Around my general age bracket. I'll let you determine what that actually means.

-In my general vicinity. Again, you can use your better judgment.

-At all intrigued about something you have read/seen in my profile.

-Attending Western Connecticut State University, or living in or around Danbury, CT. (I just started Fall 2009, and I barely know anyone).