My name is Alex.
I like pretentious
beer and
hard rock. I love
food and occasionally even like to
cook, though I don't know many recipes; I have a tiny kitchen which
only with great effort accommodates something more complicated than
spaghetti. I really enjoy a good conversation. I keep up with
what's going on -- basically through Washington osmosis -- but I
try to have a sense of humor about politics and all that other
important stuff. I'm a
movie buff. I love
baseball. I speak
Russian.
I'm a good kisser, and I won't get any more explicit than that.
(But you can use your imagination all you'd like.)
I like a woman with a good smile, a good sense of humor, and a good
sense of herself: honesty is crucial, and so is trust. Being nice
is important too.
Till recently, I worked at a
newspaper; now I'm working in
political strategy. In my spare time, I blog about
pop culture and
sports -- especially
baseball; I'm a huge Atlanta Braves fan -- read a lot, hang out a
lot, and wish there were better movies out.
I'm good with words. I think I'm a good writer and
conversationalist. I make a lot of
jokes; some are funny, I think. I
sometimes perform
improv comedy.
I have long eyelashes, though you have to be kind of close to see
them. Otherwise, my light blue-grey eyes.
(A) Favorite authors:
Philip K. Dick,
Nikolai Gogol,
Isaac Babel,
Patrick
O'Brian,
J.R.R. Tolkien,
Mikhail
Bulgakov,
Saul
Bellow,
Flannery O'Connor,
William
Trevor
(B) Favorite movies:
Wesley Snipes,
Bill Murray,
Eddie Murphy,
Humphrey Bogart;
Sliding
Doors,
The Matchmaker,
Annie Hall;
Fast, Cheap, and
Out of Control, and everything by
Errol Morris;
Braveheart, the
Star Wars trilogy, the
Indiana
Jones trilogy, the
Lord of the Rings.
(C) Favorite music: 1970's New York punk and new wave (
Television,
Ramones, etc.),
P-Funk, outlaw country
(
Billy Joe
Shaver,
Jason & the
Scorchers), Dirty South rap (
OutKast), power pop (
Sloan), tuneful metal (
Cynic), and klezmer
(
Klezmatics).
(D) Favorite food:
Meat,
rice,
bread,
Coke,
chips;
Chinese food,
Turkish food,
Lebanese food,
pizza,
burgers,
steak
Well, the stuff I already listed is hard to live without, and I'm
sure I'd never want to live in a world where I couldn't listen to
loud music or watch movies with explosions.
Other than that, just the usual, really: family, friends,
sustenance, and a roof.
That's five. Maybe you'll be the sixth.
Watching a movie with friends or otherwise hanging out with the
guys.