Thinker, meanderer, etymologizer; leftist, humanist, romantic realist; on a never-ending quest to expand, refine, and hone my understanding of myself, the people around me, and the world we live in. Aspire to always have my heart be open to those little birds who are the secrets of living, as e.e. cummings would say.

I'm a filmmaker, writer, translator, freelance sound mixer and editor; constant imbiber of art and culture, frequent creator of music and food, and occasional dabbler in tennis and baseball.

Making captions for New Yorker cartoons, Settlers of Catan, culinary creativity.

Wavy hair and an inscrutable accent.

Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann, Kieslowski's Dekalog, Salinger's shorts, Thelonious Monk's Round Midnight, Van Gogh's letters, the wisdom of Seinfeld, the poetry of Supreme Court opinions, the moral complexity of the West Wing and The Wire, The Big Lebowski's embrace of life, Magritte's bowler hats, Proust's Madeleine cookies, Lou Reed's Berlin, Woody Allen's Manhattan, Rilke's Young Poet, Dvorak's New World, Donald Byrd's New Perspective, Leonard Cohen's Old Ideas, and Johannes Brahms' unrequited love for Clara Schumann.

Art, philosophy, politics, morality, language, love, sex, passion, weed-induced ars poetica - and whenever a few of those intersect in some configuration, all the better...

At an IFC midnight screening, at a concert in Lincoln Center, out bowling, or home having a nice relaxing high session with my brother - exploring heart, mind, and taste buds.

it be your will.