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My self-summary Propose an edit

For starters, I'm strongly inclined to preface this by saying my autosummarizing abilities are perhaps not so good. Please note that I don't intend this proviso as a tactic to coyly express my profundity or complexity, what I mean to say is that it's simply not in my nature to be pithy in spitting out all the butt-ends of my days and ways. In other words, I'm disposed towards rambling. Hopefully my meanderings will nonetheless manage to give a somewhat lucid impression of me (i.e. more than just revealing my verbosity).

Since I'm the one responsible for the organization of this word-torrent, I'll attempt to start at some sort of beginning point. My first criteria for friendship is a compatible sense of humor: relationships barren of laughter tend to be sad, flaccid things, and I'm not cool with that. It's not that I demand constant amusement (though I'm not necessarily opposed to it, either), rather that humor is a fundamental part of how I view the world (viz. the absurdity of existence and suchlike), so it has to be present for me to fully connect with someone. Also, it's terribly important that everyone I meet laugh sycophantically at my every bon mot. No, wait, that's a lie. Or joke, whatever.

In spite of having a somewhat fervid bent for humor (note my use of linking topic sentences to segue between paragraphs...enticing, no?), I also have a strong rationalist streak. I suppose that could somehow be construed as paradoxical, but in my mind grasping the utility of logic doesn't hamper enjoyment of illogical things. In this vein, I hold the scientific method as the most consistent and efficacious avenue to approach corporeal existence, despite the ceaseless assaults sallied against it by fanatical fucktards since time immemorial. On a tangential note, I am quite fond of alliteration, when the mood strikes. Strongly tied into my esteem of science and rationality is a certain leeriness about devout religion--this probably also has to do with my being gay, but that's a separate issue. To be sure, I'm all for tolerance, but I do have a problem with people who want to impose their nonrational beliefs on the world around them. So, if you're equipped with a functioning sense of humor and an ability to differentiate between emotions and logic, no problem.

Ok, I'm tired now, so that will be all, for the moment. I plan on adding more, as time progresses. I should also mention that I can control the incessant grandiloquence if called upon (I'm actually naturally inclined to being quiet and shy on first meeting).

What I'm doing with my life Propose an edit

Saving up money working in local restaurant[s] so that I can eventually move someplace exciting/work in France.

I'm really good at Propose an edit

Pissing off fundamentalist Christians. Making bread. Making pie. I am, in fact, a gay.

The first thing(s) people usually notice about me Propose an edit

My air of silent intensity...or perhaps they don't notice me at all. This is a silly question.

My favorite books, movies, music, and food Propose an edit

(A) Dune, Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood in general), Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Haunting of Hill House, Crime and Punishment, Molecular Gastronomy, The Great Gatsby, Cyrano de Bergerac, Fast Food Nation, The Art of Eating, The Selfish Gene, anything by Carl Sagan, Middlesex, Me Talk Pretty One Day, In Cold Blood, The Devil in the White City, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Guns Germs and Steel...this has the potential to be a very long list, so I'll stick to what I can remember at the moment.

(B) I have strong feelings about the aesthetic value of film, which is to say I can be quite belligerent when it comes to movies I have strong feelings about. For example, if you're someone who enjoyed either The Grinch (the Ron Howard one) or The Village, we probably should never meet. Another consequence of my cinematic chauvinism is that I have very refined tastes concerning good terrible movies, which include the Jason movies and Rollerball.

For some others...Amadeus, anything by Stanley Kubrick (esp 2001, Dr. Strangelove, and A Clockword Orange), Jean-Pierre Jeunet's movies (Am�lie and City of Lost Children in particular), Fog of War, A Beautiful Mind, Ran, Rashoman, all of the good Vietnam retrospective movies (Apocalypse Now most of all), This is Spinal Tap, The Triplettes of Belleville, The Dreamers, La Grande Bouffe (and other amusing dirty foreign films), what I've seen of Werner Herzog (Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes and Grizzly Man are great), good Woody Allen movies (e.g. Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Match Point), David Lynch--also great (go calf fetus!), Pan's Labyrinth, Ma Vie en Rose, and anything else that's good, of which I am the final arbiter.

(C) Mostly Classical and Opera (Beethoven, Mussorgsky, and Rachmaninoff are favorites), but also an ecclectic (read: drunken) assortment of whatever else strikes my fancy: Edith Piaf, Franz Ferdinand, Charles Aznavour, Yoko Kanno, various classic rock (The Rolling Stones etc.), Philip Glass, Ray Charles, Annie Lenox (as anyone who has had the misfortune of hearing me sing "Walking on Broken Glass" knows) Ella Fitzgerald, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Sublime, Aimee Mann, Gnarles Barkley, Amy Winehouse, and so on. In addition, I have an unhealthy fascination with shitty 80s music--go Flock of Seagulls!

(D) Oh, the possibilities. I'm in love with regional Italian cuisine, particularly that of Rome (some examples being saltimboca, bucatini all'Amatriciana, spaghetti alla carbonara...I also love lasagna alla bolognese, or, really, just about anything else alla bolognese) , and I have a fondness for rustic French as well (boeuf a la bourguignonne, coq au vin, etc.), I adore foie gras, sweetbreads are grand, good cheese fills me with joy (e.g. real Gruyere), and a wide range of Asian cuisines titillate me, particularly Indian (Vindaloo, s'good), Thai (I confess to being a Pad Thai whore), Korean (bulgogi--hooray!), Japanese (Kaiseki is especially intriguing), and Vietnamese. Eggs are good, too. I like good food.

The six things I could never do without Propose an edit

1. Worthwhile friends...people who complement my humanity

2. Books, they prevent me from obtaining complete intellectual vacuity.

3. Laudable lipids, e.g. butter.

4. My sourdough starter--she's my baby. This kind of encompasses bread in general, too.

5. Salt, which is obviously true because of the whole needing it to live thing, but also because I'm a flavor-glutton.

6. Music; I feel that ordered noises keep my sanity in balance.

I spend a lot of time thinking about Propose an edit

Time. Fermentation. Language. Gastronomy. Art. Life.

On a typical Friday night I am Propose an edit

Being cook-ish. Baking is sometimes involved. If I get the chance to be social, that happens too.

The most private thing I'm willing to admit here Propose an edit

I have very dextrous toes.

You should message me if Propose an edit

I sound vaguely interesting, and you feel that we might profitably exchange sillinesses. Also, if you're amused by dinosaurs.

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