I am a new lawyer with a keen interest in music, movies, politics, and philosophy. In my spare time I write and record music but rarely perform. I have an unhealthy obsession with neckties. I have over 300.

Working at a law firm downtown while I wait for my opportunity to get involved in politics and/or make it as a rock star.

Most things. Exceptions include swimming, eating my vegetables, and drawing.

Music:
Ryan Adams, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Beck, Ben Folds Five, Bettie Serveert, Andrew Bird, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bon Iver, Bright Eyes, Camera Obscura, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Counting Crows, The Cranberries, The Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, The Elected, Emperor X, Feist, Ben Folds, Frightened Rabbit, The Get Up Kids, Amy Hedges, Interpol, Islands, Elton John, Jenny Lewis, M. Ward, Magnetic Fields, Eleni Mandell, Aimee Mann, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Mates of State, Sarah McLachlan, Metric, Van Morrison, Mineral, Modest Mouse, The National, A.C. Newman, The New Pornographers, Phosphorescent, Piebald, Portishead, The Postal Service, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Radiohead, REM, Damien Rice, Rilo Kiley, Santogold, St. Vincent, Frank Sinatra, The Shins, Sigur Rós, Elliott Smith, Snow Machine, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Sunset Rubdown, Tapes 'n Tapes, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend, Rufus Wainwright, Wolf Parade, Pete Yorn.

Movies:
12 Angry Men, Abre Los Ojos, All the Real Girls, Amélie, American Beauty, Amores Perros, Anatomy of a Murder, Annie Hall, As Good As It Gets, Audition, Babel, The Battle of Algiers, The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, Boys Don't Cry, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Breathless, Capturing the Friedmans, Casablanca, Children of Men, Cinema Paradiso, The Conversation, A Clockwork Orange, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Cool Hand Luke, Dancer in the Dark, Das Boot, Dial M for Murder, Dog Day Afternoon, Eraserhead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Eyes Wide Shut, Fight Club, Gandhi, The Great Dictator, Harold and Maude, Hearts and Minds, Hustle and Flow, I Heart Huckabees, The Ice Storm, The Incredibles, Iron Man, Lenny, Life Aquatic, Lolita (1997), Junebug, Knocked Up, M, Magnolia, Manhattan, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Mean Streets, Moulin Rouge, My Darling Clementine, Napoleon Dynamite, Network, Nobody's Fool, No Country for Old Men, Once Upon a Time in the West, On Golden Pond, Paper Moon, Paths of Glory, Patton, A Prarie Home Companion, The Prestige, Public Enemy, Pulp Fiction, Rear Window, Requiem for a Dream, Rushmore, Secretary, Seven Samurai, Sex and Lucía, Some Like It Hot, The Shining, State and Main, The Straight Story, Sweet and Lowdown, The Wizard of Oz, When Harry Met Sally..., Winter Light, You've Got Mail, to name a few.

Books:
Fiction:
Albert Camus, L'Etranger (The Stranger)
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
James Joyce, Dubliners
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

Non-Fiction:
Hannah Arendt, Human Condition
Hannah Arent, Responsibility and Judgment
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
J.S. Mill, On Liberty
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
Jose Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

A guitar, the iPhone--that'll do.

Out doing something fun with my friends, whether it be at a bar, a concert, a party...

I don't really consider anything private, so ask and I'll tell.