It's always difficult to encapsulate one's life in a short description. Young professional, homebrewer, musician, avid reader, and something of a geek. Always exploring new ideas and aspects of life, while taking time out to appreciate the less frenetic side of things.

I'm back to working in the litigation support field (think of it as the bastard child of paralegal and IT), but I'm also attending classes at the Siebel Institute to become a professional brewer. Do what you love, right? Meanwhile, I'm still writing music and homebrewing. I'm constantly reading literature and listening to music, with some old-school video gaming thrown in for good measure. I'm usually seen around the neighborhood with my dog, or on my bicycle. I do, of course, make time for my friends as well, and like to decompress with a nice walk along the beach. And I'm working on getting in better shape by weight-lifting and riding my bike everywhere around the city.

Essentially, I'm experiencing and enjoying the different aspects of life while trying to abide by the adage, "Leave the world a better place than when you came into it."

Good conversation, from intellectual analysis to just BSing over a beer; tinkering with computers, finding the most bizarre connections between things, making people laugh, listening, appreciating good food and beer, playing with dogs, snuggling, singing in the car, pretending I'm not surprised I made that pool shot, Scrabble.

My big ol' bald head, and my tendency to talk passionately about the things that most interest me.

Gonna be a long list.

Books: Favorite authors are Philip K. Dick, Haruki Murakami, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Hermann Hesse, Yukio Mishima, Milan Kundera, Stanislaw Lem, Kenzaburo Oe, Charles Bukowski, Sherman Alexie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Theodore Sturgeon, Umberto Eco, Italo Calvino, Alfred Bester, John Kennedy Toole, Vladimir Nabokov, Oscar Wilde, William Gibson and George Orwell. Literature is one of my first and most avid loves.

Music: Soundgarden, Fila Brazillia, Bola, Radiohead, Secret Chiefs 3, Otis Redding, Tom Waits, Global Communication, Philip Glass, Iron & Wine, Pendulum, Skinny Puppy, Air, MF Doom, Kraftwerk, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Afrika Bambaataa, Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Daft Punk, The Arcade Fire, and Dead Kennedys. I haven't found a genre I don't like yet.

Food: Likewise, I haven't found a style or cuisine I don't appreciate yet. I do, however, have a particular passion for sushi, Ethiopian, Indian, Thai, Italian, German, Mexican, and craft beer. I also have a thing for really good hamburgers, diner food, and an impeccably done Maxwell Street Polish. If you're not also an adventurous eater, we might not get along as well as we would otherwise.

Movies/TV: The Big Lebowski, Snatch, Paprika, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Hot Fuzz, Falling Down, Attack the Gas Station!, The Goonies, Batman Begins, A Scanner Darkly, The Truman Show; Haibane Renmei, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, Paranoia Agent, Family Guy.

Beer: I enjoy every style I've tried, so I'll list a few specific favorites: Victory Storm King Stout, Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA, Delirium Tremens, St. Bernardus 12, Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold, Southern Tier Pumking, Schlenkerla Rauchbier, Three Floyds Alpha King. Yes, I'm a giant beer nerd.

-Music.
-Craft beer.
-Literature.
-People (for good or for bad).
-Good food.
-A space of my own when I need to get away from the rest of the world.

What's always in my backpack: My moleskine book, my MP3 player, my netbook, the latest book or two I'm reading, my water bottle, and some antacids.

A really wide range of stuff. On one hand, I've put a lot of thought into the mental and social construction of human thought, mankind's potential versus his actions, and the sheer staggering scale of the universe around us; On the other hand, I've written an essay about vagina dentata symbolism in the video game Super Mario World just for laughs.

It varies a lot. I spend about as many Friday nights going out having a few beers with friends as I do puttering around my apartment on my own, working on the latest homebrew or tinkering with old demoscene music.

I'm fairly kinky and travel a loose orbit around the Chicago BDSM community.

You're interested in talking to me, for any reason at all.