Hiya, I'm Marco. I grew up in the Bay Area here and have lived in San Francisco since 2002. Go Sharks!

I'm an animator and a musician. I've played the piano since I was 5, generally classically, but more of a jazz improvisation artist now. I love messing around with Reason on the computer and creating electronic music. After that, I'm usually animating in After Effects or editing in FCP then authoring DVDs.

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.

I'm a massive movie buff constantly looking for a new challenger at Scene It! I'm a voracious reader, and dabble in a bit of writing from time to time as it suits my mood. I love board games and hold board game nights with my friends, generally cracking up with Cranium, being obnoxiously loud with Taboo, enjoying a quiet round of Scrabble, or bickering and debating with Apples to Apples.

I adore owls. I bake desserts randomly and surprise people with them. My dad and I are currently learning how to sail.

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. I freelance as an animator at various Motion Graphics/Commercial houses around the City. I get to work on a lot of cool commercials and spots and network with a lot of fellow artists.

I'm looking into getting an Italian Dual-Citizenship and am planning to move there in a few years. (My dad was born in Palermo, so I can get citizenship by blood! yay!)

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.

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.

(a) The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens, The Entire Dark Tower Series by Stephen King, Ender's Game, 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

(b) I have a massive collection of movies, though so far 2001: A Space Odyssey and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind rank at the very top...let's also list down Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Amélie, Un long dimanche de fiançailles, City of Lost Children, 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 Wise, I enjoy House, ER, Firefly, Deadliest Catch, Iron Chef, Good Eats, Heroes, Frisky Dingo, Futurama, 24, Eureka, The IT Crowd, and a few others, though I don't personally own cable.

(c) Waaayyy too much to list...Classical (Rachmaninov, Chopin, Beethoven, Telemann, Holst, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Mozart, Prokofiev), Movie Scores, Soundtracks, Electronica (trance, drum n bass, experimental artists such as Squarepusher, Venetian Snares, M83 and Aphex Twin), Opera, Rock (Radiohead, Boston, Pink Floyd, Beatles), 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)

(d) Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Thai, delicious burritos, and whatever I feel like cooking

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1) Love 2) Family 3) Piano/Music 4) Sex 5) Owls 6) Lists

Life, Love, music, 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, over at Yoshi's catching the latest jazz band performance, or hanging out with friends in their HD theatre, playing my PS3, Rock Band, or watching movies. Or perusing this site wondering why I have no one to go out with on this typical night.

My last name literally means "Sausage" in Italian.

You don't mind dressing up for a fun evening at the symphony or the opera. You breathe music. You love animation or are in the industry. You love good food and good drink. You are a gamer or are really into movies, but also like outdoor things like traipsing through Golden Gate Park, riding bikes or playing tennis. You play an instrument. You are any one or a combination of these things, or have something else to share. :)

Oh, and please no smokers.