I'm an aspiring documentary filmmaker; I'm now working in sales to pay the bills while I'm finishing my first feature-length film. I have a BA in English and am working on a BFA in film mostly for networking purposes. I do graphic design for people and have a hand in a couple electronic music projects. I prefer to spend money on equipment to make stuff (I've got more or less a complete pro video studio at my disposal now).

I'm deeply in love with the city of Milwaukee and have lived here since 1998. I just bought a duplex in Riverwest to fix up and rent out and have designs on a couple more.

I like adventure and unpredictable people. I travel a lot. I like a bit of chaos in the day-to-day.

I'd like to meet someone who has proper goals on the intellectual/artistic side of things. Sometimes I find it's easier to get traction on other people's projects than it is on my own. I like being useful. I find the most joy in making and doing things.

Making movies, buying rental properties, trying to be useful to other people, trying not to waste time, trying to make a profit somewhere in the middle of all of this...trying not to take everything too seriously...happiness is where you find it...

Adobe Illustrator. Seriously, if you need vector graphics, I'm your guy. I've also got a killer chili recipe, and if you need a car and only have about $500 to spend, I can usually find a good one.

Timothy Hansen anagrams out to "Honesty Hit Man", which is apropos - the interesting thing about honesty as a weapon is that it is a weapon with zero prejudice. I also tend to have a fairly self-deprecating sense of humor. And style. Man, I cold got style all day long.

Lately I've been reading a lot of Vonnegut, been through a Hunter S. Thompson phase, and briefly, a Bukowski phase. I can typically tear through a novel in four days. In addition, Malcolm Gladwell's stuff fascinates me. I've also read Human Action by Ludwig von Mises (it's 1,000 pages of economic theory that attempts to explain the totality of human behavior from the development of language onward through the study of trade - wild stuff.)

Movies; I've been so busy ostensibly making one that I've missed a lot. But I do typically like offbeat documentaries (American Movie inadvertently inspired the last nine years of my life), Exit Through the Gift Shop thrilled me, and was made in part by friends of mine, what else...anything Charlie Kaufman had a hand in (Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine, etc.), Coen Brothers stuff, lowbrow car chase movies, almost anything, really.

Music is all over the map. Particularly, Pinback, LCD Soundsystem, Beck, The Fall, Tobacco, The Sea and Cake, Genesis, Grandaddy, Clor, Daft Punk, Of Montreal, DEVO, Joy Zipper. Max Tundra, plus a lot of '70's funk/jazz/library music (Piero Umiliani, et. al.), a lot of '80's new wave and post-punk, a lot of current electronic stuff, a lot of everything. I am upgrading my iPod to 240GB. I do also make music, chiefly programming it in Midisoft Studio 4 for Windows 95. I'm old-skool, y'all!

Also, rad props and shout-outs to local acts I know personally, namely E=MC Hammer, 'Til Death Do Us Party, Audrea, Rocktopus and the Scallywags (whose logo I designed), and all them other fantastic loud-ass basement children rippin' it up right here in Brew City.

Food - Anything local, especially with local beer to wash it down. Milwaukee has no dearth of excellent local restaurants: there are the Bay View essentials (Honeypie, Lulu, Palomino, etc.). Transfer owns my heart for pizza these days although Lisas's is a close 2nd. Thai A Kitchen and EE Sane are my favorite Thai places, there's Maharaja (good Indian), Mayura (good cheap Indian), the Lowlands Group restaurants (Trocadero, Cafe Hollander, Centraal), Emperor of China, Conejitos, and neither last nor least is Speed Queen, who offer the only legitimate barbecue in Milwaukee, served in styrofoam and ordered through a bulletproof drive-thru, naturally. There are others.

Or, if I'm cooking, lots of pasta and hearty soups from scratch, some grilling, and the occasional experiment with Indian food. After seeing the peppers, tomatoes and eggplant some friends of mine grew in their backyard I'm keen to try a garden next summer. Also, I know the secret of the perfect pie crust. That secret is lard.

1. Video equipment - tools of the trade, you know.
2. My 1977 MGB. It is always good to own a convertible.
3. The Internet. I don't have a TV. This is the only way I know what's going on in the world.
4. The Paisano at Transfer
5. Freedom of speech. Man, where's a dude as outrageous as Jefferson when you need him?
6. My friends. In a very real way, I am them, and they are us, and we are me, together.

Narrative structure. Picking up ANOTHER really cheap foreclosed duplex in Riverwest. Foreign policy. The domestic auto industry. How to do what you like and get paid for it. How people figure out what makes them happy.

Working on my movie, or out to dinner with friends, or checking out local bands, or trying to get some new crazy idea off the ground.

You've heard of Sunshine Week in Congress? I'm the Sunshine Man. Ask me anything.

You have an appreciation of dry wit and productivity, or need a laugh, or want to argue about economics, or need a t-shirt designed, or, hopefully, you think all of this sturm und drang about goals and purposes is promising, or at least cute. Especially keen on free-spirited women with loose morals and neon-colored hair.