I'm kinda like this guy...ya know?

I work as a technician for a popular fruit-based computer and mobile device manufacturer. I freelance as a Star-Bellied Sneetch and also volunteer at a shelter for wayward Chupacabras. I used to be vorced; now I'm not. So that's pretty sweet. In my free time I'm into subtractive synthesis, control voltage, analog gear, obscure vinyl, progressive interests, performing the perfect cheer and science. Audiophile. Pop-surrealism/lowbrow draw-er. Musician. Aesthete. It's like someone spilled a beer...all over the atmosphere. Politically to the left of Chomsky. I vacillate between rationalism and empiricism depending on whether or not I've shaved. I go to shows. A lot. Cold chillin'. Writing sentence fragments. LONERISM. Building another world. (evening time).

•Existing.
•Not being jingoistic.
•Making root beer floats (I no longer tolerate lactose, but I recall being pretty adept at this two step process).
•Making people laugh
•Making myself laugh
•Saying precisely the wrong thing
at the right time
•Dominating any over-thinking contests in my age and weight divisions
•Manipulating a spatula
•Taking a flight of stairs
•Constructing imaginary lives for people I
see on the CTA
•Putting too much honey in my tea
•Pollenating Wallflowers (I don't even
know what that means!)

Human. Definitely. Haven't been able to slip that past anyone. How translucent I'm not. I'm heavier than air. Also probably my garb, or lack thereof if the first time you notice me is whilst breaking into my apartment just as I'm getting out of the shower, then it's definitely the high-pitched (yet very masculine and somehow sexy) yell and the flailing fight or flight response. Visible tattoos when it's warm. If I'm wearing them, my frames, and the fact that they often are not housing lenses. I tend to make the "we're-on-the-same-elevator-and-that's-about-all-we've-got-in-common" face quite a bit.

Authors: Robert A. Heinlein, Octavia Butler, Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen King, Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, Richard P. Feynman, David Foster Wallace, Douglas Adams, George Orwell, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibi, Dr. Seuss, Maurice Sendak, Roald Dahl, Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, Beverly Cleary!

Talkies: Sideways, Fear Of A Black Hat, Trading Places, The Lovers of the Arctic Circle, City of God, Children of Men, Friday, Half Baked, Under the Cherry Moon, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Coming to America, V For Vendetta, Sin City, Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly, Juice, Planet Earth, Carmen Jones, Cooley High, Swingers, Anchor Man, ALL of the Christopher Guest films, The Wiz, Dolemite, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka!, Heavy Metal, High Fidelity, Harold and Maude, Deconstructing Harry, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Krushgroove, Beat Street, Menace II Society, Delirious (Eddie Murphy not John Candy), etc.

Shows: Don't own a television, but - Peep Show, Party Down, Curb Your Enthusiasm, King of Queens, Seinfeld, Boardwalk Empire, Girls, The Walking Dead, Mad Men, Red Dwarf, Good Times, Sandford and Son, Golden Girls, Cheers, A Different World, In Living Color, Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!, Arrested Development, Eastbound and Down, Flight of the Concords, Lucky Louie, Louie, Parks and Recreation, The Office (British and U.S.), The Ricky Gervais Show, Extras, An Idiot Abroad, Real Time and some other shite methinks.

Music: here's what I've been listening to lately - MGMT, CAN, Sun Ra, Stereolab, Monks, Dead Moon, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Ty Segall, Opossom, Tame Impala, Melody's Echo Chamber, Antena, DIIV, Love, The Soft Machine, Mac DeMarco, Suicide, Jon Brion, My Bloody Valentine, Keleidoscope, The Homosexuals, Jessica Pratt, Shuggie Otis, Os Mutantes, Women, Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Throbbing Gristle, Harmonia, Jens Lekman, Silver Apples, Social Climbers, Goat, The Moderns Lovers, Guy, Jodeci, Television Personalities, LCD Soundsystem, Shit Robot, Liars, Kings of Convenience, Marvin Gaye, Rodriguez, David Bowie, Girls, Solange, Serge Gainsbourg, Glass Candy, ಠ_ಠ THIS IS RIDICULOUS I LIKE A LOT OF DIFFERENT BANDS MAYBE YOU LIKE SOME OF THE SAME ONES IF NOT YOU SHOULD CHECK THEM OUT MAYBE WE CAN LISTEN TO RECORDS TOGETHER IF SO THAT'S PRETTY SWEET WHAT ARE YOU DOING LATER

• All the fat-skinny people
• All the tall-short people
• All the nobody people
• All the somebody people

Pigeons. Why do they all appear to be the same age? Where are the baby and geriatric pigeons? Why are they so bad at eating anything larger than one bite? Their method of tossing something in the air in hopes it'll become small enough to eat is terribly inefficient. Will one pigeon, one day, be the Copernicus of pigeons and simply place his foot on a piece of bread and then tear? Why is it called pigeon-toed and duck-footed when in fact ducks are pigeon-toed and pigeons are duck-footed? If one decided not to do that head-nod thing they do when they walk, would it become like the Harvey Milk of pigeons? Who gives the orders here?

Seriously I think about our president's drone warfare program and the number of civilians being murdered by equipment paid for with my tax dollars. Then I get really bummed and start thinking about pigeons.

Teach the Contreversy!!!:

http://woodbetweenworlds.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-berenstein-bears-we-are-living-in.html?m=1

Also dogs are so cute I want to eat their faces. Much in the same way a toothless person would eat a steak. I really can't get over their cuteness. It's a problem. I want one. Bad.

krautrock. writing, recording, noodling.

Sometimes when I'm feeling blue I'll sing the theme song to Growing Pains to myself both because the lyrics make me feel better and thinking about how silly Kirk Cameron is these days tickles me into a better mood.

• You can take a joke
• You can tell a joke
• You breathe through your nose
• You understand that time enjoyed
cannot be wasted
• You don't use the word literally liberally
• You're already happy
• You're kinesthetic
• You've got moxy
• You're pigeon-toed¹
• You're creative
• You SERIOUSLY want to make music/be my singer
• You'd make me want to make you a mixtape
• You smell like the alphabet
***You live IN (the city of) Chicago***

¹Or just generally toed.

"where the stage of my old life
meets the cast of the new
tonight's actors are me and you"