I often think the highest accomplishment I could hope to achieve would be to compose a melody -Wittgenstein

He who does not take sides and take up arms in the time of civil war shall be deprived of his right to politics and have no part in the city - Solon

Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven keep me in temper. I would not be mad -King Lear

Spending the summer at a nonprofit legal services org focusing on worker & tenants rights. Trying to come up with amazing fellowship project ideas so I can get paid to do what I love after I graduate next year.

Boggle, mixtapes, sleeping

My lifelike appearance

MUSIC: Schubert, Rachmaninov, Smokey Robinson, Rufus Thomas, Joe Tex, the Small Faces, the Replacements, Bowie, Errol Dunkley, the Rhythm Rulers, Bob & Marcia, Memphis Minnie, Slim Harpo, the Ronettes, John Fahey, Asa Chang & Junray, Boredoms, DAT Politics, Eric B & Rakim, Das EFX, Ghostface, NWA.

MOVIES:The Apartment, Some Like it Hot, Nashville, Wong Kar-Wai collection, Shadow of a Doubt, Honeymoon in Vegas, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Last Man, Spies Like Us, Rules of the Game

BOOKS: If on a winter's night a traveler (calvino); Name of the Rose (eco); Middlemarch (eliot); Democracy and Distrust (ely); the Nick Adams stories (hemingway); Pale Fire (nabokov); West of Rome (fante); Discipline and Punish (foucault); Blindness (saramago); Inheritance of Loss (desai); Atonement (mcewan); and for cheap thrills, british mysteries (robert goddard, dorothy sayers, etc.)

TV SHOWS: current: The Mighty Boosh, 30 Rock, Gossip Girl, Venture Bros.
all time faves: The Wire, Home Movies, I'm Alan Partridge, Arrested Development, Adventures of Pete & Pete;

coffee, candy, spices, cartoons, blankets, records

Law, justice, and the extent to which those overlap. Immigration policy and reform. The perfect sandwich. Fine scotch. Whatever was in the New Yorker / This American Life / Planet Money this week.

In college I performed as the singer of a country band a couple times. A country cover band. Sometimes I worry that this is the coolest thing I will ever have done.