please allow me to introduce myself. i'm a man of wealth and taste.

i'll start out with the usual.

i like movies, good tv shows (or extraordinarily bad ones that offer themselves up to be mocked), reading, writing, etc. Basically, i like good stories, no matter how they're told. I graduated from UT-Austin a few years ago, with an English degree, so while my grammar may occasionally suffer and you'll find few capital letters in my casual scribblings and even a couple words that may not actually be words, my love for all narrative styles and forms is pretty immense.

i like pretty much all types of music, but i'd have to say my favorite is neo-folk stuff. josh ritter, select bright eyes tunes, damien jurado, iron and wine, and i'm just now starting to really like a local guy named doug burr.

I work in arlington, and live in dallas. my job is alright. i also have a second job in north dallas, so i pretty much spend a great deal of my free time driving in a large triangle all over the metroplex. and consequently, my weekdays are pretty busy and at the end of them i'm pretty tired.

i'm kind of a homebody, but i do like to go out. obviously, i like going to movies. i'm not much for the club scene, and though i'm told a man who can dance (or isn't afraid to dance) is a turn on, i'm just not a dancer. so when i do go out, i'm much more likely to enjoy a quieter, more laid-back scene.

A friend recently told me i was annoying the crap out of her, because anytime she told me anything my reaction was always the same. my point here is that i'm fairly unflappable. i'm also fairly sarcastic. actually, it's not even 'fairly' it's more like 'very much so'. i'm very much sarcastic.

so that's me. in my entirety.

Closely examining it, nearly every day, like a kid with an ant farm.

writing, pointing out the foibles of people, reading, analyzing books and movies, making mix tapes, power slacking.

they tend to think i'm not very nice, but really, i just take some time to open up.

it changes from epoch to epoch. i'll be really into something for a while, then put it away for an even longer while. but if you're truly dying to know such mundane personal trivia, let me indulge you with a random listing.

Movies: american splendor, batman returns, capote, dirty harry, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, fargo, good night and good luck, high fidelity, igby goes down, jaws, kill bill, lost in translation, mean streets, network, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, pirates of the caribbean, quiz show, raging bull, secretary, the third man, the usual suspects, v for vendetta, what's eating gilbert grape?, X2, young frankenstein, zoolander

books: frankenstein, everything that rises must converge, cannery row, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, world war Z, confederacy of dunces, me talk pretty one day, calvin and hobbes, burn collector, harry potter, the dark knight returns, sin city, preacher

music: bright eyes, death cab for cutie, red hot chili peppers, josh ritter, jay-z, the magnetic fields, radiohead, coldplay, the rolling stones, rocky votolato, damien jurado, damien rice, iron and wine, modest mouse, otis redding, bob dylan, stars, the postal service, biggie smalls, smashing pumpkins, interpol, explosions in the sky, cat power, new order, neva dinova, the shins, van morrison, yo la tengo, joshua radin, james william hindle, sia, mazzy star, bjork, ryan adams, belle and sebastian, elliott smith, paul brill. oh, and cyndi lauper.

food: edible. that's about all i require.

the alphabet, scotch, eclipse winterfree gum, gold bond, tv, my computer

random things. like whether or not i could pull off a bank robbery. do monkeys have coherent thoughts? who invented whiskey and why? will angelina jolie stop collecting children? you know...guy stuff.

going to bed way too early.

i'd probably like to spank you.

You'd like to have a conversation about movies or music or books. or if you wanna rap about the mavs, the cowboys, the stars, or the longhorns. or if you just want a spanking

i'm pretty cool, once i get comfortable and stop being awkward.