I think I like the list of likes as a self summary the best: poetry and short stories that hit you where it hurts, cognitivity, jumping, tag, ridiculous facial expressions, talking really incomprehensibly and fast, deliberately mishearing lyrics, duct tape, bouncing, swimming, boxing, video games, reading, conversation, intellect, arguments of Objective versus Consensual versus Subjective realities, discovering the logic(s) of models for thought, performance art, creating characters, being terrified, glorified, verified, or embellished.

apparently giving academic lectures involving facebook and other websites in the context of multi-linear and non-linear narrative. Fun times.

Writing. Most short story writers will tell you that they wish they could write poetry. Most poets I've met tell me that narrative v.s. poetic writing is just cognitively different--like using your left and right arms. I like ambidexterity.

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either that I have an afro or that I could have one.

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Books: Mrs. Dalloway, Cat's Cradle, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, Cold Mountain, Life of Pi, IT, A Clockwork Orange, Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Me You and Everyone We Know, Yours, Flash Fiction, A Separate Peace, The Naked Ape, Heart of Darkness, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, Bird by Bird, Literature and its Writers, Style, anything by short story masters like John Updike or Tobias Wolff, Scary No Scary.

Movies: The Godfather, The Maltese Falcon, Lord of the Flies (old version), Fight Club, Meet Joe Black, What Dreams May Come, When the Leeves Broke,The Butcher Boy, Vertigo, Memento

Music: Tilly and the Wall,Electroclash, Eisley, Head Automatica, Broken Social Scene, Architecture in Helsinki, DJ Shadow, Metric, Air, The Avalanches, Mae,Handsome Boy Modeling School, Her Space Holiday, Jump Little Children, Kasabian, We Are Scientists,RJD2,Télépopmusik, Wired All Wrong, Iron and Wine, Cloud Cult, Cake, Devotchka, Gnarls Barkely, Go! Team, Interpol, Jump Little Children, Woods, APC, The Postal Service, Queen, Regina Spektor, Modest Mouse, The National, Efterklang, Dntel, Animal Collective, Derrick Bailey, Girl Talk

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trees, pixels, sleep, root beer, hawks, and epiphanies.

how to be playfully terrifying yet accessible.

Very much being a nerd.

I thoroughly enjoy adjusting the words from my own and others' sentences.

Example:

"Destroying that which kills is often bested by the thrills."
"Besting the destroyed is often killing that which thrills."

My favorite word is, "squabble." Say it out loud.

You write, sculpt, dance, bake, sing, speak, run, dig, jump, play... "doing" is very important. If you're intimate with at least one verb, we should be friends.
I'm pretty confident that if you do it right you can convince me that certain words have verb like connotations ("Oh, I totally Politic at my job," or, "yeah man, you should seriously watch me Science on Wednesdays").