Hello hello. I'm a 26-year-old PhD student in the sciences looking to meet people for friends or dating. I tend to click with laid-back, masculine guys. I love music (all types) and art; particularly modern art and photography. I enjoy being in the out-of-doors; bar-hopping around Oakland and SF; laughing; eating; watching movies; and the smell of Dixon Ticonderoga Number 2 pencils. I can read and enjoy doing so. I am liberal and try to stay relatively well-informed. I like to run and ski. I don't know how to do a cartwheel. Pesto is my kryptonite. Most things are interesting to me. I'm told I'm easy to get along with. Etcetera, etcetera . . .

I'm working on my PhD at UC Berkeley with the aim of one day teaching and researching at a college or university.

In no particular order

Books:
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Invisible Man, On The Road, Nine Stories, Naked Lunch, Slaughterhouse-Five, Island, Fahrenheit 451, Cat's Cradle, Brave New World, Grapes of Wrath, The Fall, Breakfast of Champions, A Clockwork Orange, Dharma Bums, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Stranger, Walden, Siddhartha, Our Town, One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest, Animal Farm, 1984, Howl

Movies:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Donnie Darko, Wayne's World, Chinatown, Snatch, Interstella 5555, Reservoir Dogs, The Godfather, Trainspotting, The Graduate, Clockwork Orange, Cool Hand Luke, Grindhouse, Brazil, Napoleon Dynamite, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Run Lola Run, What About Bob?, Creep Show, Wet Hot American Summer, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Requiem for a Dream, Amazon Women On The Moon, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Goonies, North By Northwest, The Big Lebowsky, The Usual Suspects, Rear Window, Yellow Submarine, Fight Club, The Deer Hunter, Pulp Fiction, Sunset Boulevard, Full Metal Jacket

Music:
David Bowie, The Beatles, Paul Simon, Thelonius Monk, Pink Floyd, Scissor Sisters, Chuck Berry, Sonny Rollins, The Doors, The Ramones, Miles Davis, The Sex Pistols, Girl Talk, Daft Punk, B.B. King, The White Stripes, Blackalicious, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, New Order, Joao Gilberto, Billy Joel, Tears For Fears, Hockey Night, Depeche Mode, Otis Redding, Art Blakey, Toots & The Maytals, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Elton John, Talking Heads, Groove Armada, Stan Getz, The Darkness, Bob Marley, Charles Mingus, Creedence, Velvet Underground, Yaz, Ella Fitzgerald, Tom Waits, Coleman Hawkins, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, Fats Domino, Fiona Apple, Prince, The Pixies, Queen, The Rolling Stones, Cannonball Adderley, LCD Soundsystem, Janis Joplin, Beck, Mark Mallman, Tom Petty, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, T-Rex

Food:
yes

Music, outside, my dog, my friends, laughter, and a variety of cheese-flavored crackers

cheese

Bar-hopping with- or at home listening/dancing to bad music with my friends

you feel inclined to do so.