I've been itching to liberate my old 300 ZX from the blocks it's been resting on at my parents' farm and put it back on the road, but after 4 years without a car I get the impression that my bicycle would call me out on vehicular adultery. I'm also pretty sure that gas is expensive.

I don't own a television, I like to play card games (but I can never remember the rules!), I wear skinny jeans for which I am nowhere near skinny enough, I bake bread, I'm good with tools, and my favorite season is summer because (apparently) I always want it to be about 15 degrees hotter than everyone else does. Leaves changing, silent snow, the smell of dew on the air is great and all but give me a pair of shorts, some sunglasses and little else to keep me happy.

I do some odd jobs on the production end of an IPTV travel show (www.jetsetzero.tv), teach animation at UMass part time, admin the local art blog drinkinganddrawing.blogspot.com, and crank out illustration projects with pal Radamarinka. I like to throw parties with my bitchin' roommate Ferocita72 as often as I can excuse them and am working on developing a taste/budget for coffee. I'm also looking for new music and reading recommendations (particularly classics).

lots of things, but I have a feeling that my resume, omitting as it does membership in a band or a non-profit, isn't going to win me any extra attention in this town.

are my eyes. And my hair, if the person doing the noticing is emo enough to be interested in side-swept bangs.

I prefer to sort by author (but not by the alphabet): Richard Rhodes, David Mitchell, Neil Gaiman, Olaf Stapleton, Sam Kieth, Charles Mann, Ashinano Hitoshi, Ursula K. LeGuin, Chris Onstad, Mike Mignola, etc. I don't want to list anyone as a favorite whose works I haven't read most of, but after "The Unbearable Lightness" I can't help but put Milan Kundera up too.

My relationship with movies is "It's Complicated" on Facebook. I like Wes Anderson when he's working with Owen Wilson, Ingmar Bergman when he has a sense of humor, Hayao Miyazaki when he doesn't pull his punches (rarely), Charlie Chaplin, Stanley Kubrick, Satoshi Kon, Brad Bird, Gendy Tartakovsky when he's not on a leash, some of the Coen brothers' movies, all of Orson Welles' work (including Transformers: The Movie), Akira (but nothing else Katsuhiro Otomo has done), John Ford, the bulk of Eroll Moris' docu-allegories, a smattering of Walt Disney's last pictures (The Jungle Book), and the first couple Star Trek features. Also, Finding Nemo always makes me tear up. I watch most movies, good and bad, because they lead to great conversations. So if you like talking about what you're watching, I'll like watching it with you.

I love music, but there are differing opinions on the quality of my taste: Air, Interpol, Four Tet, Johnny Cash, Tom Petty, Boston, Henri Mancini, The Beatles (pre-White Album), T.Rex, Themselves, Eels, Groove Armada, Space Captain, DJ Shadow, Gustav Holst, Journey, Chopin, Beck, Eminem, Modern Lovers, The Magnetic Fields, The (Detroit) Spinners. Feel free to make recommendations.

I like foods I can cook or at least present respectably: focaccia (all yeast breads, really), pesto, chili, carrot cake, brie, eggs (over easy on toast), fresh pasta, kale, Chianti wines, Milwaukee beers, fresh corn tortillas (and anything that goes with them), nachos and PB&J.

I think I did without them!

whether or not I'm going to stick around in the Pioneer Valley for another year.

singing karaoke. No, really.

is that I have no middle name.

you're curious about everything. I get along well with people who are naturally investigative, even if they don't know the first thing about what they're investigating.

Also, it would be nice if you lived anywhere even remotely near me. The Philippines are cool, I'm sure, but I suspect our first date will lack substance.

Oh, and to preemptively assuage my guilt about this: don't take it personally if I don't get back to your IM on this site -- my internet is often unreliable and the OKC chat box only seems to work about half the time. Sorry!