I am speculative, high-speed, and genteelly absurd.
My Self-Summary
The Executive Summary:
High-velocity
verbal atrocities pretty much sums up a lot of it. I enjoy
beating my gums together given the slightest excuse and am pretty
apt at inventing ones when they don't readily present
themselves.
I love words. Reading and writing (nowadays self-flagellation over
why I'm not writing) are pretty neat and people who share that view
are too. Rithmetic places a distant third.
So far as the other basics go, I was not meant to live in warmer
climes, keep myself awake with coffee and amused with booze, and
enjoy crushing victories in Trivial Pursuit more than I should, and
love a good challenge. I'd put more down, but where's the fun in
that?
What I’m doing with my life
If you have any ideas, any at all, you're a good step or two ahead
of me.
I’m really good at
Getting people to share more with me than they intend. I'm not
saying sodium pentothol has anything to fear from me, but it's an
interesting trend.
Also: oddball and impromptu poetry.
The first things people usually notice about me
Probably my clothing or something. I don't really have a good tab
on that sort of thing.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Books: Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls,
Flaubert's Parrot, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace, A History of
the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, The Waste Land, Prufrock and Other
Observations, Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf
Movies: A Clockwork Orange, Rififi, Gegen die Wand, Trainspotting,
Requiem for a Dream, There Will Be Blood
Music: Mogwai, Neutral Milk Hotel, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The
Dismemberment Plan, Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Fugazi, The Clash, The
Pixies, Sage Francis, MURS, At the Drive-In, Parts & Labor,
Carissa's Wierd, G.F. Handel, The Hold Steady, M83, Venetian
Snares, Russian Circles
Food: In general, anything that doesn't contain entrails or
eyeballs. More specifically, tapas, sushi, and Puerto Rican food.
The six things I could never do without
Books, coffee, trivial things, beer, my passport, tangents.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
What comes next.
On a typical Friday night I am
Either sitting around trying to sleep early or out somewhere that
serves beer.
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
When I was potty-training as a child the only way to make me pee
was for my parents (or anyone) to sing a song from Disney's
"Cinderella" to me. If you ask nicely I might even tell you what it
is.
You should message me if
You feel we have something in common or you find me even remotely
interesting.
Also if you feel you can beat me in trivial pursuit.