Hey. I'm a nerd-adjacent living in Los Angeles alongside the legion of other derring-do's pursuing the good stuff. Missing my Portland home, but can't say I don't love the sun.

Studying to become a writer, one piece at a time. Also doing my best to see as much of the earth as I can muster, and not worry too much about trifles. Life is precious, and at the end of the day, you better make up your own damn mind about what's important.

Chopping wood, a few stringed instruments, wasting time, ruining shoes, staying up late, getting up early, doodling, making one particular dish, completing outlandish missions, iced tea, postulating the absurd, climbing trees, the dishes. Oregon. Texas.

First, the Ernest Borgnine tooth gap I've got going on. Stylish. Second thing is they hear my name is Eliot, and commence with the E.T. voice and the index finger pointing. Eliot = smiles politely.

Calvin & Hobbes, Top Secret, Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Touch of Evil, HIMYM, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Alien, Dr. Strangelove, The Rocketeer, Mysterius the Unfathomable, Maus, Frank Miller, lots of comics, James Ellroy, Modern Family, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Shantaram, Zeppelin, Bon Iver, Dolly Parton, Townes van Zandt, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Faces, Black Keys, A Prairie Home Companion, Al Jazeera, Burritos, Egg Dishes, Burrito and Egg Dishes...lots more great junk

Mexican food, heavy doses of nature, good company, sense of humor, internet, mobility

Future scenarios involving genetic engineering and space travel, motorcycles, the cabin I want to build one day, big-ass issues of the big-ass world, the grown-up version of Discovery Zone, sad country songs from yesteryear, what to write on this thing. Also, tacky alternative profile names, such as Fux Capacitor. Lately, mortality and being human.

Garlic/lime popcorn on the stovetop for my friends. Movies, booze, being merry. Dive bars yes. Bonfires yes. Standing in line, no.

I have some webbed toes - evolution in action.

...you get excited by: the Griffith Observatory, or rediscovering music you thought you'd forgotten about, or deciding to take a mini-road trip all of the sudden, or all of this stuff at the same time.

Also, if you want to grab a coffee, or run away to Mexico together.

Footnote: I'm looking for fellow musicians to teach me how to sing vocal harmonies and funk out. Nothing stirs the soul like two voices wailing on each other.