oh hey, how's it going?

Like your average okcupidista, I guess I'm looking for a partner in crime. Without the crime. I don't want to commit any crimes. I would be deported if i committed crimes. But bars, museums, cinemas, book shops, cafes, parties, theaters, my living room watching dvds - we should explore all these places. And laugh while we're doing that. There has to be laughing.

me? oh i don't know. dry humoured to a fault but prone to the occasional bout of debilitating sincerity. these are the risks you take.

urm... the basics... I've just finished my phd in criminology and now working as a researcher for a non-profit organisation.

GOOD AT: Placing emphasis on the 'new' in 'NEW York' for unecessary theatrical effect.

BAD AT: Hailing taxis - I throw myself into the road with something between a Nazi salute and an apology. The cars, they do not stop.

GOOD AT: Listening, chatting, supporting, laughing, judging and managing to do all these things while eating cake. it's not as easy as i make it look, but that's the charm of me.

I was told there would be cake.

Iris Murdoch, EM Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Invisible Cities, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, The Secret History, Anna Karenina, Birdsong, The Tin Drum, Cloud Atlas, Brideshead Revisited, Birthday Letters, Paradise Lost, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, Goodbye to Berlin, The Master of Petersburg, The Line of Beauty, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, To the Lighthouse

I actually literally honest-to-god had to check my facebook page to see what my favourite movies are. late-modernity sucks.
But i remembered that i love... Bullets Over Broadway, The Birds, Gosford Park, Being John Malkovitch, Two Days in Paris, The Orphanage, Melancholia, Pan's Labrynth, Waltz With Bashir, The Hudsucker Proxy, Another Year

TV - Mad Men Mad Men Mad Men. Mad Men. 30 Rock. The IT Crowd.

Plays - recently: The Testament of Mary, Raoul by James Thierree, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, One Man Two Guvnors, The Caretaker, Einstein on the Beach

marmite, wine, the theme tune to Jeeves and Wooster, dark chocolate, books, nice fitting shirts.

"You remind me of the babe. What babe? The babe with the power. What power? The power of voodoo. Who do? You do. Do what? Remind me of the babe."

On repeat.

it's friday night. i'm sat with the dog watching Downton Abbey. Oh look upon me, gay children of England, and learn of your terrible fate.

I'll get drunk tomorrow.

"In his moments of insecurity he was haunted by the suggestion that life might be, after all, significant."

you're too ugly to make it with my friend.