I'm nothing if not mercurial. I'm also easily the least qualified to tell my own story.

Dorothy Parker is my idol. Her and the Dude. That should tell you a bit, anyway.

I live softly, and life is beautiful.

Enjoying it. Self-employed, cherishing my independence, but trying to keep it from eating all my time.

Always learning, experimenting, exploring. Being a bit cheeky; being subtle about it.

Many things! Conversation, if the company is right. I've a compulsion for making things, and teaching myself new ways to make things.

Making lights blink, making things vibrate rhythmically, making marks on things with different coloured things, combining edible substances into eminently more edible substances, and grossly oversimplifying things so they sound a bit ridiculous (or I do).

Also, parenthetical statements.

My Canadian accent
My fantastic Roman nose
The lovely aroma of my pipe smoke

The last things anyone would suspect of me:

I love to dance. Seriously, I missed a calling.
I can race like a mountain goat over jagged rocks.
I kind of wish I had to wear a suit to work.

I have a greatly diminished capacity to enjoy books uncritically owing to an unfortunate run-in with an English degree, but favourites include Ford Madox Ford, T. S. Eliot, Beckett, Sōseki, Margaret Atwood, Stevie Smith, Slavoj Žižek, Montaigne, Rabelais, Ernesto Sabato, Stanislaw Lem, Solzhenitsyn, Mary Wollstonecraft, and so on.

I love discovering new music, with few enduring favourites. If I hear it and like it, it'll probably make it into my rotation. At the moment that's St. Vincent, Destroyer, Tame Impala, Magnetic Fields, Dirty Projectors, Grimes, Purity Ring, Chromatics, Tune-Yards, Ariel Pink, Ellen Allien and a bunch of other random tracks.

Movies I form more of a connection with. Existential comedy is a great genre, with Wes Anderson topping the list. Then mostly a bunch of random films I adore: The Spirit of the Beehive, Last Year at Marienbad, Brazil, Repo Man, Let the Right One In, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Marketa Lazarová, Sophie Scholl and The Princess Bride.

Episodically speaking, anything strongly character-driven gets me good: Mad Men, Justified, The Wire, Homeland, Treme, coughMadeinChelseacough, and Breaking Bad.

Everything. Everything is interesting. It's all in how you frame it.

I define myself in the negative spaces.