I like to live by the saying "He not busy being born, is busy dying", I'm 24 and am still learning alot about the world. Who I want to be and where I want to go changes, and I'm happy with this, I cherish this independence, but it would be nice to have someone to learn with and to share my home time with. I would love a long term companion. Although at times I can seem like a complete nihilist, deep down I'm a hopeless romantic, which is probably why I'm writing self-summary on a matchmaking web site. :)

I love lyrical music: Bob Dylan, Jeff Buckley, Good conversation, Politics, Great Literature, Thoughtful movies. Nice guys. Challenging and meaningful relationships.

I'm hoping to find a loving and long term relationship. I'm a dinner and movie guy. I don't drink and don't really enjoy going to loud bars/clubs. I like to read and write poetry . I like to laugh.

For my bread and butter I work for Apple. Outside of work I am a poet, performer, and writer. I often perform at the Bowery Poetry Club and the Nuyorican. I also volunteer as a suicide and crises prevention counselor for LGBTQ Youth as well spending my time facilitating diversity and suicide prevention workshops in NYC public schools. With luck, I will be starting grad school this spring to get my masters in Social Work.

Writing, listening, deescalating crises, movie trivia, political debate, being sarcastic and a pseudo cynic.

I hope my devastating good looks :) But probably my shyness.

Music: Bob Dylan , Aimee Mann , Jeff Buckley Tim Buckley, Leonard Cohen , John Lennon , Wilco , Miles Davis, Bright Eyes, Devotchka, Joni Mitchel, Josh Ritter , Nat King Cole, Bryan Wilson, Elvis Costello, Ryan Adams, Eliot Smith, Cathrine Feeny, Ray LaMontagne , The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Odeta, Nina Simone, Tom Petty, Otis Redding, The Shins, Fiona Apple, Cat Stevens, Elton John, John Williams, Phantom Planet, Aqualung, Remey Zerro, The Wallflowers, Mazzy Star, Sam Phillips, Iron and Wine, Josh Rouse, Travis, Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Ray Charels, Johny Cash, Jet, David Grey, Fleetwood Mac, U2, Coldplay, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastion, The Black Crows, Carter Burwell, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Damien Rice, Danny Elfman, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly.

Movies: American Beauty , Synedoche New York, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Once, Lost in Translation , Forrest Gump, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Ordinary People , Schindlers List, Magnolia, The Hours, Boogie Nights, Philidalphia, Wit, I'm Not There, Good Will Hunting, The Notebook, Running With Scissors, Pleasantvill, The Shawshank Redemption, The Man Who Wasn't There, Children of Men, As Good as It Gets, Lolita, Amaros Peros, Love Me if You Dare, Amélie, Saving Private Ryan, Million Dollar Baby, Little Children, Black Snake Moan, E.T., Braveheart, Contact, Nixon, JFK, Platoon, Gladiator, Born on the Fourth of July, Raging Bull, Network, Gods and Monsters, Iris, The Color Purple, Jaws, Indiana Jones, James Bond, Star Wars, One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest, The Graduate, A.I. Unforgiven, The Ice Storm, Empire of the Sun, Good Night Good Luck, Almost Famous, Munich, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, Rear Window, Vanilla Sky, Edward Siscor Hands, Big Fish, Ran, The Seven Samuari, Yojimbo, Finding Neverland, Wonder Boys, Peices of April, Memoirs of a Geisha, Punch Drunk Love, Rainman, Brokeback Mountain, Young Frankensein, Hook, Defending Your Life, In the Bedroom, The Truman Show, Breaking the Waves, The Sea Inside, Monster, Cath Me If You Can, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Thumbsucker

Books: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay , Malcom Gladwell , Wonderboys, The Good Earth, All Over but the Shouting, Elie Wiesel, Arthur Miller, Michael Cunningham, Augusten Burroughs, Tony Kushner, David Mamet, Paddy Chayevsky, Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Shakespeer, Tenessee Williams, Patricia Smith, Derrick Brown, Tim O'Brien, Ernest Himingway, Karen Armstrong, Plato, Running With Scissors , The Grapes of Wrath, East of Edan, White Orleander, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Disgrace, Atonement, Into The Wild, Gilead, Revolutionary Road, Of Mice and Men, Mrs. Dalloway, The Quiet American, The Stranger, The Road , One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest, The Hours, Home at the End of the Earth, The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Wood, July July, Going After Caciato, Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides, Fahrenheit 451, Bleetchers, In Cold Blood, Don Quijote, Catcher in the Rye, Big Fish, The Shiping News, To Kill a Mocking Bird, All Pat Conroy, and on a much lighter side anything by John Grisham.

1. My Friends
2. My Volunteer Work
3. My I-Phone
4. Bob Dylan Records
5. Books
6. Buffalo Wings

Life, love, words, and what I'm going to eat next.

Probably going to the movies with friends or to The Living Room to listen to some good music.

I have an irrational fear of breakfast cereal, complete with nightmares involving the Trix Rabbit and Count Chocula.

If you consider yourself a romantic and feel that for a Gay man its a lonely predilection. If you want an intellectually challenging and emotionally significant relationship . If you want a companion and friend in a lover. Than message me, and if you don't ruin it by trying to send me pictures of your penis, maybe we can get coffee.