The best version of myself is:
passionate about everything he does; witty; curious; creative but unpretentious; honest; modest; self-deprecating; a complete nerd for history, film (making/studying/viewing); a writer; an actor; always up for a roadtrip;

The best version of myself:
has driven cross-country twice and still dreams of the desert; lived in Florence, Italy studying Medieval and Renaissance literature and history and still has dreams of walking through her streets; loves the going to a ballgame as much as he loves going to a museum; believes in ghosts and Sasquatch; believes that romance absolutely can NOT be planned/created/purchased; has been a phillies season ticket holder since 2003; loves camping

Le meillure version de me:
parles francais bien.

la migliore versione di me:
parla media italiana.

The worst version of myself (because dammit, let's be honest) is:
moody; stubborn; prone to bouts of laziness and frustration; aloof; very private; self-conscious; and hates his job.

THE JOB LIFE:
slumming at a bookstore while actively searching for teaching/research/museum jobs

THE CREATIVE LIFE:
I write and perform sketch comedy...i teach film history classes at a night school...I host a monthly movie at my friend's art center...I'm working on a screenplay of Dante's INFERNO

board games (esp: scrabble, trivial pursuit), drums (well, rock band drums)

you tell me....and then i'll put it here.

BOOKS:
Diary of an Unknown (Cocteau), On the Road (Kerouac), Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo), The Inferno (Dante), Where the Wild Things Are (Sendac)
CURRENTLY READING: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Murakami); Federico Fellini: His Life and Work (Kezich)

MOVIES:
TITLES: 8 1/2, Bottle Rocket, Cool Hand Luke, Duck Soup, Finding Nemo, Garden State, Ginger Snaps, Horse Feathers, HUD, It's a Wonderful Life, Jesus' Son, La Strada, Long Live Rock, Magnolia, Monsters Inc, Punch Drunk Love, Raging Bull, Rushmore, She's All That, Suspiria, The Evil Dead, The Fisher King, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wall-E, Wet Hot American Summer
PEOPLE: The Marx Brothers, Paul Newman, Federico Fellini, Dalton Trumbo; Wes Anderson, Cary Grant, PIXAR, Woody Allen

MUSIC:
The following groups are in heavy rotation - but my taste varies from day to day to mood to mood:
Actionjerk, Arcade Fire, The Beatles, Blossom Deary, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Charlie Parker, The Classic Brown, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliot Smith, It's a King Thing, Jeff Buckley, John Coltrane, Journey, Kanye West, M Ward, Miles Davis, Mogwai, Nick Drake, REM, Radiohead, Robbers, The Who, Up Up Down Down, Wilco, Woody Guthrie
Also love: Be-Bop, Baroque, Opera and 1950's, 1960's rock.

FOOD:
I'll eat almost anything.

1. a pen and notepad in my back pocket (even though i have my best ideas w/o them)
2. wanderlust
3. irony
4. (tbd)
5. (tbd)
6. (tbd)

everything....and i've got it all figured out, man....now i just need to get everything outside my head working the way it does inside...why the girls i am best matched with are the ones who reply "very selectively".

cursing myself for being so typical!

I'll sometimes cry at movies (but only when alone, in public, i can keep that shit in check)...oh yeah - one of the first "updates" this site showed me - was about my cousin.
Such is my luck this year.

:you happen to be - or aspire to be - a muse
:you're up for adventures of both the exciting and mundane varieties
:you want to hang out with the best version of me.
:when i tell you my dog's name is "Fast Eddie" - you know the reference.

if you see anything you like, feel free to wink at me - i'm usually too shy to make the first move...