I'm 28 and living in Ferndale. I'm a born and raised Michigander, for better or worse. I used to be more out in the suburbs, and I'm happy now to be near downtown.

I used to get angry when friends would call me a hipster, but now I just hang my head in shame and accept the fact that it's true for the most part. I just try my damnedest to not be a hipster of the douchebag variety.

I'm really into music (shock! awe!) and play guitar, just like everyone else. However, I also play the accordion, which if you haven't heard is the finest of the hand-held bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family of instruments.

I'm a grammar and spelling Nazi. I love reading, words and vocabulary. My favorite word is borborygmus.

I put it off too long, and am paying for it, but at least I got my act together and I'm back in school. I'm a professional bunburyist.

I like going to indie rock shows and museums and the like.

trivia. being a decent fellow.

My hipster glasses and beard.

books: 1984, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Princess Bride, Nick Hornby, David Sedaris, Bone, Maus, Science/Socio-political/economics non-fiction books that lash out against big business, trying to get all the classics read (but dreadfully behind), Kafka's Metamorphosis (just kidding, it's terrible)... keep meaning to get around to Augusten Burroughs, one day I'll get to it.

movies: Rushmore (Wes Andersen et al.), Big Lebowski, Kids in the hall: Brain Candy, Spinal Tap (Christopher Guest et al.), Wet Hot American Summer, The Princess Bride, A Christmas Story, Hudsucker Proxy and rest of the Coen bros. stuff, Leon: The Professional, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

TV: Arrested Development, Home Movies, Sealab 2021 (before Capt Murphy died), Dexter, Flight of the Conchords, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Show, Bullshit

music: I was raised on old weezer and punk music, now into indie stuff, but still love the old punk stuff. Rancid, Operation Ivy, Elvis Costello, Los Campesinos!, The Thermals, I'm From Barcelona, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Ruth Ruth, Fratellis, Swedish pop/indie, Ben Folds (Five), Tullycraft, Born Ruffians, Thao and The Get Down Stay Down, CSS, Tilly and the Wall, Le Tigre, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Ra Ra Riot, PAS/CAL, Child Bite, Friendly Foes, Electric Six, The Decemberists, The Builders and the Butchers, Cat Empire, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Frightened Rabbit, Steve Burns, Flaming Lips, The Boy Least Likely To, We Are Scientists, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head. A whole bunch of stuff.

Food: Lots of things, I used to be a picky eater, but not so much any longer.

I'll resist the easy-out option of "air, food, shelter, etc. etc." and say friends, music, family, computer, books, and humor (oh, and for number seven; a towel.)

music, politics, why people do the things they do.

Hopefully at a concert, sometimes at a bar, sometimes at a friends house, sometimes just staying home.

I am one of 3 people on earth that _hates_ Family Guy.

You like good (by my standards) music and movies.
You are intelligent.
You spell words correctly (typos I understand).
You know the difference between there/their/they're and its/it's.
You don't think the last two items are "high standards" as we all learned this in elementary school.