I'm a smart, outdoorsy, bookish artist.
I'm talkative, quiet, funny, and serious.

What am I doing with my life? Well, I've been making art, of the old-school painting & drawing variety, for most of it, and that's more or less the whole story. I've done a little teaching recently and took to it like a duck to water. The next step seems to be to go back to school for a graduate degree or a teaching credential. I fear this may take me away from the bay area, which, having seen or lived in the rest of the country, I'm very, very attached to.

When I'm not making art, and not doing something ignominious to pay the rent so I can make even more art, I'm generally hanging out with my friends, running in Redwood park, burrowing into a pile of books, or tackling a wall at Berkeley Ironworks. I'm usually killing two or three of these birds with one stone.

While I'd love to meet someone who loves drawing as much as I do, or is as infatuated with indoor rock climbing as I am, I especially want to meet someone who will teach me all about something about which I know next to nothing, except that I want to know more. Biology? Tango? Cooking? Tell me more...

My height.

It's hard to narrow down my favorite books to a workable list as I have a couple thousand around the house, but this should give you an idea:
Infinite Jest. Probably my favorite book of all time, and, not coincidentally, the funniest book I've ever read.
The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth. I keep rereading this.
Emily Dickinson
Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Haven't quite finished it, but if I was going to point to one book and say, this is how I think the world works, this would be the one.
Dr. Seuss. The complete works.
Alla Prima by Richard Schmid. A lot of my reading revolves around art - history, technique, artists, etc...
Comics! Not the men-in-tights stuff. Think Love & Rockets, Chris Ware, 70's French SF, old newspaper strips...

Right now I'm reading Jane Austen for the first time. Why did I wait so long?

The Economist, 3 Quarks Daily, Google News, Pitchfork, Invisible Oranges, OK Trends, kottke... Radiolab, This American Life, Savage Love, Planet Money, TED, Joe Frank, Inkstuds, Evolution 101...

Anything by the Coen Brothers, Miyasaki, Pixar, Wong Kar Wai, or Michel Gondry will send me running to the theater. I also like seeing old movies at the Castro or the Paramount, whether it's a Kurosawa or Antonioni movie I've never seen, or Casablanca one more time. I rarely watch TV, but I'll occasionally blow through a series on DVD. I've watched The Wire, Freaks & Geeks, and The (English) Office all straight through twice.

Prince, James Brown, Melvins, LCD Soundsystem, Kraftwerk, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo, D'Angelo, The Beatles, Brian Eno, metal, funk, synthpop, bollywood, and on and on and on...
My favorite album is "Colossal Youth" by the Young Marble Giants

Alas, I'm not a foodie. However, I do get positively giddy at the thought of Japanese or Indian food! And, man, Yamo, Mission Chinese, oh man, so good...

The literal "things" I can't live without are my:
Sketchbook
Bicycle
iphone
However, I really believe that the best things in life aren't things, and those things are:
My friends
Nature
Making art

I don't have a typical Friday night.
Depending on the week, I could be:

Going to gallery openings,
Climbing at the gym,
At a life drawing session,
Out on the town with my friends,
At home reading.

I wish more of my Fridays involved dancing!

I don't like cheese. Shocking, I know...