Writer, Actor, Podcaster, Semi-Reformed Reprobate...and I've actually fooled people into paying me for it! A constant, yet surprisingly amusing, work in progress.

For the past year I've been doing GREAT. I finally found the job I was practically born for. I've achieved a great posse of friends I love and can't wait for other folks to meet. I've achieved some mastery over my finances (rocking a budget and making good money). NOW it's time to find a cool person with which to rock awesome experiences and have great laughs. ENTER the KRAKEN (KRAKEN means OKC) to meet some new folk and have a blast with them.

Upshot- I'm more positive and more in control of my life than ever before-my natural instinct is to share that- maybe with someone who, like me, has been getting their own life together or maybe someone who is just starting down that road themselves. Basically looking for folks that want to explore everything Austin has to offer with a person that can discuss and appreciate a new experience (or several hundred-I'm literally looking for a partner to explore the world with). That said, I'd be cool with a few awesome dates as well. Want to explore a new restaurant? Gastro-bar? Band or spoken word program? Can I get a holler for live theater? Holla atcha boy! It's been a while since I've had the leisure of a weekend-I want to explore that luxury to the fullest.

I recently fell into the clover and found a company willing to pay me to write and be creative for a living. SO that doesn't suck. Long term goals are getting myself into the best shape I can be and getting more of my writing out there. I also want to get back on stage soon (acting, not rocking...well, not that way anyway).

I also podcast a least once a week with a great group of guys. I'm always looking for ways to monetize that (I'd love to be able to make money by just having awesome conversations with cool folks).

Amusing myself. Seriously, I'm terrific at it. I'm fairly decent at amusing others too (I've been told). I also make a decent omelet and I can change a flat tire very quickly which I think are good back-up skills in case the amusement thing doesn't pan out.

I also have an immense talent for remembering useless trivia. That's actually come in handy both with podcasting and my "real" job. Good for me!

I'm a dab hand in the Kitchen.

I'm a great Interlocutor. Seriously! Look it up!

Either my dashing sense of style or my looming physical presence. Probably the latter which is a shame as I am quite dapper.

If not that then my crooked smile or general goofiness.

I've tried to give off positive energy lately too - it seems to be working.

I'm an inveterate comic book reader. I generally buy trade paperbacks of such stuff but occasionally I will fall under the spell of buying single issues. My Comic tastes run a gamut from traditional "Folks in Tights fighting Crime" stuff to people such as The Hernandez Bros., Daniel Clowes, C. Tyler, and Craig Thomson (works which I consider to be up there with Hemingway, Steinbeck and Garcia-Marquez). I read a ridiculous amount of "real literature" though, with my favorites currently being Murakami, Chabon and Raymond Chandler.

I AM A MOVIE FANATIC. I loved the Avengers but my favorite movie was Moonrise Kingdom for 2012. I love french New Wave, art house gems, the occasional action movie and watch several documentaries a year. And everything in between. (my fave director BTW is Akira Kurosawa-the biggest genius of film IMHO - my favorite movie is Ikiru -not one of the Samurai ones, in case you're interested) Lately I'm watching and laughing (and occasionally really liking) bad European horror flicks on Netflix.

I don't go out to concerts much. After decades in the music biz periphery I'm just not all that impressed. I still enjoy seeing a good show though - I might lean more towards a place like the Paramount and ACL but I'll catch a crowd surfer if they are flung in my path. I definitely want to get out to more theater this year (I also want to start acting again, but that is another story).

I listen to a lot of stuff but my longtime love affair with music ended a few years ago (I still get exited about it, I just don't seek it out like I used to) . I Love be-bop, Old school Nashville (and a few upstarts-Randy Travis, Dwight Yoakum, George Strait-I'd still rather listen to Faron Young or the Louvin Bros.). I've a deep abiding love for all punk rock, from the Ramones to Sham 69 to Black Flag. I like ancient New Wave and Alternative and Old School Hip Hop. I like a lot of hipster twee contemporary stuff too. I often find myself listening to classical for want of anything better on the radio (I don't have a mp3 player in my car). I'd love to hit the Symphony w/ someone (I actually read some of Beethoven's letters to a crowd of Austin Symphony supporters once and got to stay for the concert-it was awesome).

I'm, sadly, a barely recovering carnivore. I love meat, cheese and bread. I love almost all cuisines though and actively seek out new experiences. I'd love to go out with someone I can cook for but my non-meat skills could use a workout. (I do miss the Mushroom Stroganoff and West Lynn cafe though-and I'm willing to learn-my cooking skills are A-1).

Meh. I'm gonna get all buddhisty and blowhardy here and say I really try not to get attached to things. My peeps (who are awesome). Some way to watch movies. Books. All that bottom rung Maslow's heirarchy crap of course. Stuff that smells good. A good 9 in one screwdriver (always comes in handy).

-Something to do
-Excellent bedclothes
-Books! and some way to read them, I don't care
-Spices
-Rainy Days (they recharge me)
-the ability to make a fire (it charges my batteries)

Politics. Altruism and enlightened self interest. Pretty girls. What's for lunch. How the hell I'm going to make that character go where I need them to be. What's for dinner. Feminism. Material possessions. Budgeting. Lightsabers, phasers and sonic screwdrivers.

Could be at a party with my friends. Or recording a podcast. Or down at the local having a pint. Or at a movie. Or on a group pubcrawl. Or maybe it's been a rough week and I'm in bed with a book or three.

I have no wish to date a crazy person but if I had to it would be Cheryl from Archer. Or is it Carrie...

You are terminally hilarious and want me to laugh with you til one of us kicks it.
You desperately need a movie buddy
You just want to use me to meet my awesome friends
You have the other half to this locket I possess. No, seriously, what is up with that damn locket?