Likes: Proper grammar, cover songs, This American Life, whiskey-based cocktails, Swedish crime fiction, jokes, Mexican food, the Pacific Ocean, Mike Birbiglia, narratives, experimental theatre, live music, the Los Angeles Lakers, puns, soccer, mash-ups, British ingenues, BBC programming, Korean BBQ

Dislikes: clubs, people who don't "get" kids, people who don't watch TV on principle, too much or too little irony, top 40 radio, sparkly vampires, Wrigleyville, anything defended as "Family Values", philistines, the phrase "work hard, play hard", vegans

Discovering teaching while getting a Masters in talking about books. Trying to reconcile my theatre training with spending most of my waking hours with pre-teens. Directing Beauty and the Beast starring 60 middle schoolers.

karaoke. knowing about television. voicing my opinion. acting like my students.

I have a beard.

Mitchell, Murakami, Hornby, Eggers, Rushdie, Ishaguro, Klosterman, DFW, Simmons, and Scandinavian crime fiction

Movies: Kicking and Screaming (NOT the Will Ferrell one), The Royal Tennenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, Wet Hot American Summer, Brick, Rushmore, The Philadelphia Story

Music: the Mountain Goats, Bear vs. Shark, Elliott Smith, the Dismemberment Plan, Smog/Bill Callahan, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek, Shearwater, Jets to Brazil, the Beatles, the Get Up Kids, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Frank Turner, Modest Mouse, Midlake, the Decemberists, John Vanderslice, the National, Girl Talk, the Silver Jews

TV: Arrested Development, the Wire, Friday Night Lights, the West Wing, Parks and Rec, Green Wing, the X-Files, Sherlock, Joss Whedon

Food: I love food. I especially love pork, prepared in potsticker or al pastor form (though not, it should be noted, at the same time), Korean, and tacos.

Ipod
My Car
Wireless Internet
Coffee
Hot Sauce
Large bodies of water

next year's middle school musical.

Sometimes I rock and roll. Sometimes I stay at home and it's just fine.

Freshman year of high school I would regularly write songs about girls I liked and then carry them around in my left cargo pants pocket, hoping I could somehow bring them up in conversation. I. was. awesome.

you like to laugh, you like to give or receive mixtapes, you think stories about lying to kids are funny.