I'm better at talking about myself face to face over a cup of coffee or a pint of ale than filling in big blank boxes with extremely broad questions preceding them but I'll do my best. My name is Tony, and I'm difficult to summarize. I am very open and yet you may find it difficult to read me. I am a very thoughtful person but sometimes I can get caught up inside my own head and over think things. I have a strong sense of humor, so conversationally if we can establish a good back and forth hilarity may ensue. Music is my world (cliche but true). If you were to open up my heart you might find an ipod dock.

Well, I moved to SW Portland seven years ago for college and my heart found a new home. I didn't find what I was looking for at Portland State (although living in the dorms was a blast) so I dropped out after my first year. It was then that I joined the workforce here where I've dabbled in a couple different fields: customer service, retail, and most recently the restaurant industry. I am currently a bartender and food server (at an upscale retirement community). I plan to go back to school in the reasonably near future (this fall) to become a teacher and music producer. My dream is to teach high school English and operate my own recording studio right here in stump-town on the weekends and during the summers.

The pursuit of trivia. Quoting things. Singing all the time.

My smile, and my eyes/eyebrows. Also probably my beard at this point (yes I keep a nice and trim beard that I like, but if you don't it's negotiable haha).

I created this profile a few years ago and I figure it's about time to update some of this info. Half of the tv shows in my list of likes were still on air when I wrote this (and have since been cancelled) if that is any indication. Still great shows for the record though.

Books:
Rant by Chuck Palahniuk
Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
How Soon is Never? by Marc Spitz
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
and many more...

Movies:
anything that David Fincher directs
anything that Christopher Nolan directs
anything that Wes Anderson directs
anything that Judd Apatow produces or directs
anything that Kevin Smith directs
anything that Michel Gondry directs
anything Edgar Wright directs
so many more, I'm a movie buff...

TV:
Party Down (RIP), Chuck (RIP), Heroes (RIP), My Name is Earl (RIP), Lost (RIP), Fringe, Raising Hope, New Girl, The Office, Parks and Recreation, 30 Rock, Community, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Louie, Weeds, Shameless, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Being Human, and True Blood (forgive me, the last few are some of my big guilty pleasures!)

Music (this is going to be the hardest by far so I'm just doing highlights):
Brand New, Bright Eyes/Conor Oberst/Desaparacidos, The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Elliott Smith, Eve 6, The Faint, The Frames/Glen Hansard, The Honorary Title, Interpol, The Killers, M. Ward, Monsters of Folk, She & Him, Modest Mouse, MCR, Neutral Milk Hotel, Neva Dinova, New Radicals, The Postal Service, Radiohead/Thom Yorke, Rilo Kiley/Jenny Lewis, Rocky Votolato, Saves The Day, Say Anything, Say Hi...(formerly Say Hi To Your Mom), The Shins, Spoon, Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek/Red House Painters, Tegan & Sara, Tenacious D, The Thermals, Third Eye Blind, Weezer, Wilco; sorry that was long than intended and there is still a million things I skipped over... here are some newer additions: The Early November/I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodys Business/Ace Enders and a Million Different People, The Format/Fun., Foxy Shazam, Maniac, Chromeo, Childish Gambino, The Head and the Heart, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros...

Food:
I'm a picky eater...

Music
Family
Friends
My cat: Philip J. Fry
The Portland Trailblazers
Umm, soap...

The next song I will attempt to write, the next amazing person I will meet, the next grand adventure I will take, what the future will hold for me proffesionally, and the fate of the Portland Trailblazers organization that I love so much.

I only work 'til 7:30pm on Friday evenings then I have all day Saturday and Sunday off; so it really could be ANYTHING! I love concerts, going to fun and interesting restaurants for good dinner and coctails, watching a blazers game if they're playing, hitting up a bar for KARAOKE, or staying in and Netflixin' it.

Hmm, I think remaining somewhat mysterious is more important than answering this silly question.

You love music, basketball, general nerdiness, or if you are just a genuinely cool person that I should know.