Self-summary. I'm saving the most difficult part of this profile for the last.............
I am a painter (the artistic kind). This is my obsession and can't seem to shake it (not that I want to).
There is more to say about myself, but I'm at a loss at the moment.
Nuff said.

It sounds absurd, but I do enjoy, for the most part, my day job as an art handler, trucking around other peoples artwork. When I'm not doing this, you can mostly find me hiding out in my studio making my artwork. This is what I enjoy doing the most. Like most artists here, I have been carving out a career in this field.

Drawing. It's what I love to do and have been doing since I can remember
I'm not sure if this is something that I should adverstise as a talent, but I can break in half an oreo cookie, scrape off the icing and put the two halves back together without breaking the cookie....all while in my mouth. Not a very attractive or sexy feat!

books: The Good Terrorist (Doris Lessing), The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera) more will come to me........
movies: The Celebration(a wonderful dogma film), Goodfellas, Another Year, Don't Look Now, The Graduate, The Royal Tennenbaums(and other Wes Anderson movies),Barcelona,Blade Runner,Blue Velvet
music: Talking Heads,They Might Be Giants,The Pixies,The Magnetic Fields,Tom Waits,Blondie,The Clash,Beck

the radio -esp. NPR/Leonard Lopate/This American Life/BBC
my studio, which is my solace
my bike
my cat, although she's taken home with my brother and is getting up in the years. 21!
family and friends, which is a given.
a clean, dry pair of socks!

My artwork. Also, politics and world events. I like to keep current on things outside of my sphere. It helps put my life in perspective.