This is the sales pitch, isn't it?

Some days I'm good, and some days I'm bad. Some days I'll eat kale and quinoa, drink some earl grey and go to the gym. Some days I'll get stoned, listen to hip-hop, and spend five hours in my kitchen cooking Chinese food. And some days I'm taking shots of whiskey and dancing downtown til the bars close.

I'm always up late. I try to enjoy everything. I'm a simple man with a large vocabulary and too many thoughts. By turns silly and serious. I might be lost in some point of existentialism, or I might make faces at you from across the room to try to get a smile. I'm currently trying to cultivate the silly side of this equation.

And I love lentils. If I have anything close to a religion, it's lentils.

Specifically, I am a badass cook at a badass Japanese restaurant. I make music, exercise, cook and go dancing in my spare time.

Generally, thinking about who I am and what I can be. How to get more out of life and feel at peace with how things are at the same time. How to connect more deeply with the people around me.

Talking myself into and back out of just about anything.
Driving (not so good at parking).
Making people laugh (including/especially myself).
Cooking while inebriated.

The baby face. How much profanity comes out of my mouth. How good my hair smells.

BOOKS: The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver (book I just finished = my new favorite book, right?), Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Tao Te Ching, Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed, Jesus' Son by Dennis Johnson, a whole mess of cookbooks, Kerouac's biographies but not really his writing, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Notes from Underground, Hunter S. Thompson, Aleister Crowley.

MOVIES: Anything by Christopher Nolan, Shaun of the Dead, Super Troopers, Apocalypse Now, I Heart Huckabees, Bottle Rocket, Tombstone, My Blue Heaven, What About Bob, UHF. Either something heavy and cerebral or completely stupid.

SHOWS: The Simpsons, Trailor Park Boys, King of the Hill, Game of Thrones, House, Breaking Bad, the Daily Show, Comedy Bang Bang. I spend tons of time watching BBC docs and Ted Talks on Netflix.

MUSIC: a little bit of everything - Silversun Pickups, Metric, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Spoon, M83, Purity Ring, Beach House, Slint, Tricky, Portishead, Ghostface Killah, Mos Def, Kendrick Lamar, Wu-Tang, Kanye West, Big Boi, Andy C, Bloody Beetroots, Drop the Lime, Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Tool.

FOOD: Oh, it's pretty much all good. Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Mexican.

* Good food. Seriously, if you have to eat, you should eat well.
* Hip-hop. I grew up with it and love it dearly. No, I don't wear track suits, backwards hats, or call women hoes.
* Fly kicks. I scored some yellow and white Etnies at Goodwill last year that rock my world.
* Coffee. I try to buck the habit every couple years, and it never takes. Don't worry tea, I still love you too.
*Exercise. You make me feel so good when I feel so bad.
*Friends. Sounds corny, but after some recent rough times, I have a deeper appreciation for the wonderful people in my life.

Everything. I think about patterns and cycles, what makes a person what they are, how a person can become more than what they are, the history and future of humanity, what to eat for dinner, the enormity of the universe, what book I should read next, the passing of time. Etc.

Depends on my work schedule. Sometimes I'm working, sometimes I'm dancing downtown, sometimes I'm watching Netflix and playing with my cat. This past Friday, I managed to cram in all three.

There's a lot of layers, and they tend to peel slowly. But feel free to ask me anything.

You want to grab a drink. You want me to cook you dinner. You want to cook me dinner (nobody ever cooks for me.) You wanna go dance. You wanna go for a hike. You want to go to the park or walk along the waterfront. You are up past 1:00am. Holy shit I need to meet some other people with this fucked up schedule.