Hiya, I'm Marco. I grew up in the Bay Area and have lived in San Francisco since 2002. Go Sharks! I'm an INTJ if you are into the Myers-Briggs personality types.

I'm an animator by trade and I love every minute of it. I've also played the piano since I was 5, generally classically, but more of a jazz improvisation artist now.

I'm quite liberal, and keep up to date on politics as much as I can. I'm currently concerned with healthcare reform and mad about everything the right wing is doing to combat it. On the other hand, I also like to go target shooting with guns. I guess I'm a Marxman? I'm on Fark and Reddit pretty much daily.

I'm a massive movie buff, I love board games, I play video games but don't let them take over my life. I love to cook, and actually have a copy of the Larousse Gastronomique under my bed for some late night reading.

I hold season tickets to the SF Symphony and have very select artists that I get super excited about when they are in town. I could live in either the MoMA or the Legion of Honor, but could do without the De Young.

I adore owls. I bake desserts often and surprise people with them. I love stormy weather and tepid overcast days, and I always enjoy walking in the rain...umbrella is optional. I am fairly reserved and introspective at first, but once I warm up to someone I become goofier and more open. I'm not that outdoorsy by nature, but I'm definitely not opposed to it; however, I'd prefer a trip to Vegas or a large City around the world to camping if given a choice.

I feel a mixture of awe, humility, and heartbreak whenever I see a Hubble Deep Field or Ultra Deep Field photograph.

I love talks and collaborations of human intellect like TED.

I'm heavily into compositing, motion graphics, and visual effects for commercials, TV, and film. Recently have been hired as Lead Motion Designer for a comany where I regularly freelanced, so I'm adjusting to the transition from freelancer to full-time staffer.

Playing a song on my iPod when in the Muni, only to have it end just as I get off at my stop. This also works when traveling in cars. Also animation, massage, piano improvisation, baking cakes, and paper target shooting.

That I look older than I actually am. I blame the facial hair, but in all honesty I don't like the way I look without it. During the Stanley Cup Playoffs season, I basically turn into an Italian Lumberjack as I grow my playoff beard for my Sharks.

Je parle français quand je suis fatigué.

Lavoro mólto, allora io parlo francese mólto!

Books! The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens, The Entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, Ender's Game, Cormac McCarthy, Huxley, Orwell, Vonnegut, Ambrose, Heinlein, Harry Potter series, Philip Pullman, Nietzsche, The Scientists, Da Vinci Code/Angel&Demons/Deception Point, most of Tom Clancy's stuff, Kafka, Poe, Hawthorne, Asimov, Bradbury, Dahl, Gogol, Marquis de Sade, Arthur C. Clark, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, etc, etc, etc

Movies! 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Inception rank at the very top...let's also list down Pulp Fiction, The Hurt Locker, Moon, Reservoir Dogs, Amélie, Un long dimanche de fiançailles, City of Lost Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Wilde, Crash, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Babel, The Constant Gardner, Red Dragon, Saw, Citizen Kane, All the Pixar movies (duh), All of the old (and some new) Disney animations, The Game, Lord of the Rings, The Shadow, Russian Ark, Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Enemy at the Gates, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Clockwork Orange, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Memento, Casino, Goodfellas, The Godfather (Pts. 1 and 2 only), Bringing out the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Life of Brian, Search for the Holy Grail, Touch of Evil, Casablanca, Airplane!, Top Secret!, Run Lola Run, all the Marx Bros. movies, Naked Gun movies, Royal Tenenbaums, Super Troopers, Rushmore, Life Aquatic, Shortbus, I 'Heart' Huckabees, Apocalypse Now: Redux, Ichi the Killer, Audition, The Breakfast Club, Don Juan de Marco, and on and on and on and on...I even have an online database I keep updated: MarcoFlix!

TV! House, How I Met Your Mother, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Top Gear, Arrested Development, ER, Firefly, Hell's Kitchen, Deadliest Catch, Master Chef, Iron Chef, Good Eats, Heroes, Frisky Dingo, Archer, Futurama, 24, Eureka, The IT Crowd, Gabe Merenghi's Dark Place, Are You Being Served?, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder and a few others, though I don't personally own cable. Gordon Ramsay is a personal hero of mine.

Musica! Opera, Classical (Rachmaninov, Chopin, Beethoven, Telemann, Holst, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Mozart, Mahler, Prokofiev, Jenkins), Movie Scores, Soundtracks, Electronica (trance, drum n bass, experimental artists such as Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, Blue Sky Black Death, M83 and Aphex Twin), Rock (Radiohead, Boston, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Santana, Hendrix), Jazz (Coltrane, Diana Krall, Harry Connick, Jr., The Bad Plus, Chick Corea, Thelonious Monk, Hiromi), Big Band, Swing, World (Cirque du Soleil, 3 Leg Torso, Craig Armstrong, Rob Dougan)

Cibo! Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, delicious burritos, and whatever I feel like cooking

1) Love 2) Family 3) Piano/Music 4) Sex 5) Owls 6) Cooking 7) Reading comprehension...oops...

Life, Love, music, recipes, movies, science, animation, art, politics, philosophy, technology. New artistic ideas and projects for myself. The relationships that all of the aformentioned subjects have with one another. The plight of the color purple. How I can get a PhD in Horribleness.

Out at Family Billiards shooting pool, baking or cooking, over at Yoshi's catching the latest jazz band performance, at one of the SF Symphony concerts in my season, playing my PS3, Rock Band, or watching movies.

My last name literally means "Sausage" in Italian.

I've been dealing with a lot of vision issues as of late, most recently a retinal detachment and a few surgeries. My way forward is promising, but my diminished 20/60 vision is still a but frustrating.

You'd like to, or if you see anything we have in common. Fellow foodies are a major plus!

Oh, and please no smokers.

Scriva me quando siete liberi in modo da possiamo andare gioco negli alberi!