Grew up in Connecticut, and got a great education, but have been really transformed by several decades in the art world. As a result I am maybe a little bit preppy and a little bit edgy—somewhere between radical and traditional.

I really do still want to change the world, although I am not entirely convinced anymore that the NYC art world is the place to do that.

I am sympathetic to far left positions on most issues, but am agnostic about many mainstream New Age solutions. Also, I try not to be judgmental of others who hold convictions different from my own. Some of my best friends actually watch football, basketball and baseball on TV. I like listening to stories and telling them and I like playing games—imaginative and playful games where everyone has fun.

I am relatively unfamiliar with the word no. For this reason, I can be very empowering to people, especially those who hover on the edge. In some ways, this also makes me a little bit dangerous, even though I have a really good heart and would never ever encourage anyone to do something dangerous or hurtful to themselves or someone else—this being an important distinction for me that distinguishes me from some of my colleagues and peers.

Maybe this makes me a good badboy. I just happen to think that there's more going on in this world than mainstream culture dreams of, although I'm still hooked on the core values.

My limits are high. I can tolerate difficult people like nobody's business, especially creative wonderful geniuses. Most people can't, so I often get to keep them. But I give many more points to people of grace and dignity and would probably prefer to connect with someone who just walked off the set of Little House on the Prairie.

I survive by grooming myself and acting polite. I work as a marketing creative at the highest end of the luxury spectrum, like a house slave. That world I serve is like a book I'm reading, not my life at all, and most of my intellectual antics at night tend to be as inappropriate as possible to that kind of propriety. I mean, sh*t, I actually used to have to write etiquette.

I used to be a writer by day and an impresario and a raconteur at night. I used to curate art and criticize it and even make it. I tried selling it, but I was never very good at that part.

When, after a decade+, I finally lost my superpowers, I took pause to reflect and realized that I done the same exact thing for all that time, mostly out of habit, and for all of it I had paid absolutely no attention to what anyone was doing unless they walked directly into the purview of my immediate creative concerns (I think maybe that's the long-winded way of saying, I was having fun). I was so busy trying to make the world just a little bit more entertaining, as though nibble by nibble we would get to something profound.

So, now I'm trying to take a step back and figure all that out. This is a process and it involves meeting new people and getting new perspectives. More specifically, I want to have a crush on someone and I want it to last forever.

Encouraging people to have big ideas

I'm not like them. It's weird. I know. I'm just not, no matter how hard I try. Some people like that, and others don't. I'm famous for making bad first impressions, but my detractors usually wind up adoring me (~forgiving me?~) when they realize I'm not kidding. I really am that earnest.

Movies that my imagination often returns to: Black Orpheus, The Bicycle Thieves, The Razor’s Edge (1948), Night of the Iguana, Frankenheimer’s Seconds, Joe Versus the Volcano, Flashback, Return to Paradise, The Princess Bride, Total Recall, American Beauty, Flashback, Kaos (Taviani Brothers), Delores Claiborne, Memento, Liquid Sky, Monty Pythn and the Holy Grail, The Exorcist

Books are really the top ten things I can’t live without. Some of the genres/authors and books that have had a big impact on me include: Charlotte’s Web, Candide, Don Quixote, Tomas Hardy, Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies, Jonathon Carroll, Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot, Poe, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, historical fiction, Luc Sante’s Low Life, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Magic Mountain, John Barth (particularly Giles Goat Boy), The Black Dahlia, Moby Dick, Roald Dahl, Hucklebery Finn, theory, Virginia Wolfe, Robert Coover’s Spanking the Made, Graham Greene…

I am a foodie and an omnivore. My favorite meal is breakfast. I have a very healthy curiosity about new things and am especially fond of seafood. Dim sum, yes. Middle Eastern, yes. Rustic Italian, yes. Asian fusion, yes. Indian, yes. Regional American comfort food, yes. In restaurants, a chill, relaxed vibe is important to me.

TV: Not so much. I’m a big fail here. Haven’t quite figured out how to get into it, but am open to trying, so long as it doesn’t become habitual.

I've been there. Sometimes it's enough to know they just once existed.

The poetry and justice of unexpected archeological discoveries.

Imagining a new way to stage The Dance of the Seven Veils.

I'm lonely.