Hmmm... I'll list random facts. I have an orange coffee table and a collection of oddly shaped banks. I think movies were made to be watched, and have a tendency to go to movie theaters and buy tickets for whatever starts next. I enjoy hiking, cycling, kayaking, and camping... and seldom do any of them.

I have a massive collection of vintage cameras, and I get pissed off when people touch them without asking. I own too many clocks, and would buy more if I could find someplace to put them. I'm a Jew by culture and an atheist by trade. I like eavesdropping on conversations, especially in restaurants. I love theme parks and roller coasters, but I hate free fall.

My female cat (not a euphemism) is named after a male Batman villain. In my defense, I didn't know she was a chick when I met her. I stand by the name, dammit.

I'm pouring a stupid amount of money and floorspace into the pursuit of pull-ups. Seriously. 1/3 of my studio apartment is now occupied by a power tower.

I'm afraid of animatronic dinosaurs and obsessed with abandoned theme parks.

I am here, there, and everywhere

I have a B.A. in Cinema Studies and moved to Rochester from Orlando to get a Master's degree in Moving Image Preservation. I'm not studying to be a director or a writer or a producer or an editor. I don't want to make movies. Stop asking me if I want to make movies.

-waking up early
-holding in my laughter when yoga instructors say ridiculous things
-bumping into store displays
-carrying on inappropriate, bluetooth-facilitated conversations in Target (bonus points for looking like I'm talking to myself)
-avoiding conversations about movies (at all costs)
-passively resenting my neighbors
-researching things that probably don't need to be researched
-embarking on spur-of-the-moment road trips with no known final destination

I have purple hair right now. Not a lot of it. Just some. And a tattoo. That's on my wrist, though. I don't typically look at people's wrists when I meet them. I guess I'm just listing features that would be damning should I ever commit a crime.

Hmmm... I like Aldous Huxley, Chuck Palahniuk, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Shakespeare's "Othello," and Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", and screenplays. P.T. Anderson and Edward D. Wood, Jr., are my favorite directors. I obsess over MGM musicals from the 30's through the 60's, and watch MST3K like it's going out of style. The number of RiffTrax on my hard drive right now could stun an elephant... if that were possible... which it's not, really. I'm a Ben Folds fan girl, and dig most indie alternative. I like The Kooks, Cage the Elephant, The Fratellis, Say Anything, Green Day, The Ramones, Less Than Jake, The White Stripes, Margot and the Nuclear So and So's, Bob Dylan, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, The Who, Regina Spektor, Florence + the Machine, NIN, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Puccini, and Mozart's piano sonatas. Food-wise, I'm choosy and open. I eat like a caveman and read Paleo blogs.

This is vague. I choose to ignore it.

... what other people are thinking about.

To be honest, on a typical Friday night I cook dinner, read for a few hours, and go to bed. I wake up at 5 during the week to work out, so I'm sort of an early to bed, early to rise type person.

I'm... odd? Is that a good word? Maybe whimsical. I take pleasure in ridiculous things. I have a tendency to buy toys... Slinkies, action figures, Legos, Nerf guns. I have a rather inappropriate sense of humor and am very good at either making you laugh or offending you to the point that you'll never speak to me again. I swear like a sailor, or a Quentin Tarantino character, but am painfully polite about it. And I'm clumsy. Outrageously clumsy. I trip up stairs, walk into doors, and, if there's a low surface within five miles of me, odds are I'll bang a knee or shin on it before the day is out.

... lemme think.

...thinking.

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I'm a nerd. Like, really. I find myself adorable, but that doesn't mean that the rest of the world does as well. If you don't like banter, "Back to the Future" quotes, random philosophical debates (which may or may not involve Nietzsche and/or ethical relativism), singing while you drive (or watching me do it), or making fun of yourself, we're not gonna get along. Please think before you message. I hate not responding to people. It makes me feel guilty.

I'm on here out of boredom more than in an effort to meet someone. Sometimes, it's just fun to talk to strangers.