Things I'm interested in that semi define me: vintage cars, vintage vinyl, old school diners, Rockola Jukeboxes, The Vox AC30, sepia photography, 50's-60's Lounge, high energy astrophysics, 8-tracks, travel (especially Europe and 'old' American cities), dive bars, British Ale, German Helles, red wine, single malt scotch, dry Martinis, Pastis 51, dumpster diving, tinkering, bantering, coffee, cooking, spandex, stand-up bass, lazy Sundays, herb gardens, fly fishin', boat rockin', actin', thriftin', griftin', driftin', skankin', politics, history, geneology, mods, rockers, mockers, mitre saws, satire, burlesque shows, Bettie Page, Delta blues, Philly, Bawl'mer, Paris, Man Ray, mid-century modern, slam dancing, playing footie, and baking bread.

I'm trying to be a lazy polymath. I work in high energy astrophysics to pay the bills. I travel quite a bit to Europe. I'm saving for retirement. I'm fixing up my row house. I do community theater. I'm restoring a vintage car. I read a lot, follow political blogs, go to the gym a few times a week, tend my lil' herb garden and drink good beer. I've dabbled in playing soccer when I can, like occasional forays into the woods, and am generally 'up for it' as the British say.

Fixing things. Diplomacy.

My eyes. My opinions. My varied interests.

Books: On The Road, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Five, Paris in the Fifties, The Land Where Blues Began, The Ox-Bow Incident, Silent Night (by Weintraub), Krazy Kat Comics, Demian, The World Almanac. Leaves of Grass, A Wrinkle In Time, Arm in Arm, Fahrenheit 451.

Films: Amélie, To Have and Have Not, Repo Man, A Hard Days Night, The Blues Brothers, 2001:A Space Odyssey, Quadrophenia, Buckaroo Banzai, To Kill a Mockingbird, Excalibur, Blade Runner, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Network, On the Waterfront, Paths of Glory, V for Vendetta, The Thin Man, The Third Man, The Fifth Element, Dr Strangelove, Body Double, Charade, What's Up, Doc?, Bell Book And Candle, Bringing Up Baby, Slap Shot, Roman Holiday, Time After Time, Moonstruck, Twelve Monkeys, All About Eve, It Happened One Night, Stalag 17, Fahrenheit 451, Spies Like Us, Lost in Translation, bad Sci-Fi, cheesy 60's 'erotica', Trashy B-movies, Hardware Wars, Henry and June, Young Frankenstein, The Sting, À Bout de Souffle, Les Caribiniers, The King Of Hearts, Goldfinger, The Day of the Jackal, LA Confidential, The Manchurian Candidate.

Music: Slow Core, Hard Core, No Depression, New Wave, 70's Glam, 70's & 80's Punk, 70's Funk and Soul, Philly Sound, Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Ye-Ye Pop, Rocksteady, Ska, Rockabilly, LoFi, Lounge, Power Pop, Garage Rock, Surf, Paisley Underground, Psychedelic, British Invasion, BeBop Jazz, Dunedin Sound, Swing baby!

Passport. Camera. Kitchen knives. Alarm clock. Corkscrew. Miter Saw.

Many things make my mind go a mile a minute.

I work from home, and I usually stay 'local' in my urban 'hood. I'll go out for dinner which could be fancy or crab cakes at a lively market. I'll end up in a quiet pub with friends and chit chat. When I've been in past relationships it was the same except it was often 'movie night'.