When I was young I wanted to design mazes and mansions, which was silly, and so rather than allow that to evolve into a career as practical as architecture, I decided I would rather write and direct movies. Clearly, I'm no realist.

I've been in Chicago for two years counting now. Originally from Michigan - no plans to go back. Would love to find myself living in New York one day, but for now, I'm loving it here.

Writing, often in circles, always relentlessly.

Rapidly gaining a dependency on fashion, which is one of the many negative side effects of working retail.

Listing Things
Pub Trivia
Juggling
Naming all the countries of the world on Sporcle

I am told by complete strangers, at minimum once a month, that I look like Nicholas Cage. This rightly concerns me, and I am contemplating what to do about it.

Midnight's Children, Of Human Bondage, Invisible Cities, The Savage Detectives, Cloud Atlas, Moby Dick, Song of Ice and Fire, Borges, Plato, Pynchon, Waugh, Rushdie, Christie

Celine & Julie Go Boating, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Red Shoes, Chungking Express, Spirited Away, Mulholland Dr., Stalker, The Scarlet Empress, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Naked, Playtime, La Jetee, Last Year at Marienbad, Black Narcissus, The Leopard, The Third Man, Peking Opera Blues, Pierrot Le Fou, Suspiria, Elevator to the Gallows, The Big Lebowski

Doctor Who, Buffy, Twin Peaks, Battlestar Galactica, Pushing Daisies, Girls, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Sherlock

The Smiths, The Talking Heads, Camera Obscura, Kate Bush, PJ Harvey, The New Pornographers, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, Joni Mitchell, The Pogues, Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian, Bjork, Florence and the Machine

1. Pen &...
2. Paper
3. Bumbershoots
4. Anachronisms
5. Whodunnits
6. Lists

What I'm writing tonight and wearing tomorrow.

Anywhere from at work to the movies to somewhere out and about in Lakeview.

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