i'm a little bit funny, a little political, arty, and try to balance being both bourgeois and a bit bohemian. i like pineapple on my pizza, blasphemy and class warfare, am nice with an edge, spend too much time drawing pictures for the internet, and still hope they make sudoku an olympic sport, as, well, i never got my varsity letter.

books: bukowski's "ham on rye, " fante's "road to los angeles, " franzen's "the corrections, " 1984 and animal farm, roth makes me sleepy, updike makes me sweat, dave eggers, and i can't finish lethem yet alone start that copy of "infinite jest, " i have a crush on zadie smith, all good boys read murakami, please read malcolm x, and i enjoyed "the god that failed" (which is 'bout stalinism, not god), but then i'm a wonky nerd like that. um, the only affection i've received of late came from henry miller's "the tropic of cancer, " but even that was too long ago to remember straight. norman finkelstein wrote a book that alan dershowitz wanted arnold schwarzenegger to squash (no, really), and it awaits me in the mailbox downstairs.

movies: roger and me, buffalo 66, das boot, capturing the friedmans, american movie, napoleon dynamite, dr. strangelove, el topo, and i really relate to the good the bad and the ugly...

music: arcade fire, beirut, black rebel motorcycle club, bon iver, bruce springsteen, flaming lips, jesus and mary chain, joy division, lucinda williams, magnetic fields, MIA, the national, neutral milk hotel, radiohead, ryan adams, velvet underground, walkmen, white stripes, wilco... these lists can just get so obnoxious, ya' know? oh, and 50 cent.

for better or worse, i'm at thebadchemicals.com. oh, and i'm a "lawyer."