My name is Christian. Now you know. See? We're practically best friends already. I'm someone with a lot of flaws that I'm trying to learn how to embrace. I'm passionate about everything I do but I sometimes have trouble building momentum with the things I'd like to focus on. Sometimes I'm scared to take those leaps of faith you have to take to get anything out of life, but when I really believe in something I'll give it everything I've got. I try to find the good in everyone, and when people do shitty things my first reaction is to try to understand why. I don't always make a lot of sense, but I'm always sincere. I love experiencing new things just as much as I love the nostalgia of the familiar. I try not to be too pretentious, which I think occasionally results in having the opposite of the desired effect. I wouldn't say that my politics are conservative or liberal... I have my beliefs and you can ask me all about them sometime, but I'm not about to join anyone else's club of thought just to make myself more easily categorized. I'm strongly opinionated and I stick to my guns though I always try to keep an open mind and an open heart. I'm kind of a nerd about pretty much everything. I'm one of those people who loves playing computer games as much as I like climbing mountains. However, I just started playing WoW and it's slowly taking over my life. Please send help.

I'm just trying to wrap up the last few credits of my bachelor's degree without letting any of that nasty education business rot my brain more than it already has. I can't even remember what I expected to get out of college, but I've since decided I'm better off trying to get as little out of it as possible. All a liberal arts education has taught me is how to think I'm better than everybody else without actually experiencing anything. I think that life should be lived and the world should be experienced, not just disserted all day long. I am a total corporate sellout, it's true. Just trying to keep a roof over my head while I wait for people to start buying my art. That reminds me, I really need to make some art. Ultimately I'd like to focus on my writing, and as much as I love to travel and go on whatever adventures present themselves to me, I'd like to find a woman to spend the rest of my life with. I know she's out there and I can't wait to find her. I think that there is just so much beauty in the world that it's a waste not to share it with someone else. I want to spend a lifetime making as many incredible memories as I can with one person, but in the meantime I'm not opposed to making some pretty grand discoveries with anyone who has a passion for life.

I've been drawing and painting my whole life. I've been working on photography for a few years now and I love it. I'm finally learning how to play the guitar. I'm a problem-solver, and I like a good challenge, be it fixing a computer that won't boot up or mixing just the right color to breathe life into a painting. I can kinda cook some stuff maybe, and I don't know if I'm any good at it but I'm always happy to listen when someone needs a listener, or talk when someone needs a talker.

I am a tall man and probably too skinny. Hopefully they are too distracted by my sweet paisley neckties to notice that pretty much none my clothes fit quite right.

I love a lot of the great down-to-earth writers you'll meet in Central Kentucky like Wendell Berry and Ed McClanahan and Gurney Norman. I love 16-17th century western philosophy and right now I'm really enjoying reading about Tao. I grew up reading Mark Twain and countless great adventure novels. The Great Gatsby or Tender is the Night? I can't decide on a favorite Fitzgerald. I've always been on the fence about Lord of the Rings but I think that's just me being cautious of the horde of blind, rabid fans. I think The Canterbury Tales is pretty much the best thing ever.

I'm an huge fan of cinema from the earliest prints to the latest releases. Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and occasionally Tim Burton blow my mind. Jean-Luc Godard is my favorite director of all time. I love film noir. There are a million great movies though, and I have yet to see most of them, so I'm always looking for new experiences on film.

I don't have a TV. I watch some shows online sometimes I guess.

Radiohead is pretty much incredible. I saw Thom Yorke and his new mystery band at their first show ever in Los Angeles. That was pretty sweet. I made a bootleg. It's on YouTube somewhere. I've been listening to Muse recently. Good stuff. I listen to a lot of classic rock, bluegrass, OLD country, jazz and blues, and I have a fairly robust vinyl collection. Benny Goodman and Billie Holiday make the world go round.

I love food. I think it's just great. I enjoy it very much. I find that food is best when delicious.

1. Music and the way it moves me
2. Too many great books to ever read them all
3. Being true to myself
4. Dancing!
5. A creative outlet
6. Love, which from what I hear is actually all I need.

You can see beauty in everything around you and you aren't intimidated by how sincerely small and insignificant you are to the universe.