Still slightly crazy after all these years. I have finally achieved my goal of the last decade, which was to get my PhD. I am snarky, sarcastic, but with a heart as I like to say. While I may be a big geek I've tried to transcend that over the years by developing tastes in food, alcohol, music, politics... I'm a cross between spontaneity and ritual. Mostly I do love life and exploring my passions.

I am intelligent, witty, and genuine.

I'm a visiting assistant professor, my first academic job that doesn't pay peanuts; on top of that I'm trying to publish articles and apply for tenure-track jobs. Plus I participate in activist work with the Green Party across the state, playing my guitar, watch cult movies, and attempt to have fun in the frozen wasteland of upstate NY.

Cooking, activism, analytical dilemmas, naming obscure philosophical terms, dancing to a different drummer.

That I look like a Native American (seriously). Most likely that I am absolutely insane, but that it's a good thing with me.

A. Catch 22 , The Princess Bride , Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Slaughterhouse 5 , Dune , Foundation series , Hitchhiker's Guide , Marx & Marxists , Foucault , Harry Turtledove , James Joyce , Kurt Vonnegut , One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Bukowski , Nabokov, The Tin Drum, Neruda, Allen Ginsberg, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Chuck Klosterman, Our Band Could Be Your Life,The Man Inside Me by Tobias Funke, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Plato (can't believe that last one), Anthony Bourdain, Tropic of Cancer, Jose Saramago

B. Rushmore , Harold and Maude , Ghost World , Lost in Translation , Sleeper , Annie Hall , Love and Death , Blazing Saddles , The Big Lebowski , Blues Brothers , Citizen Kane , Casablanca , Back to the Future, Withnail and I , LOTR series , Kurosawa films , Monty Python , Mel Brooks , The Third Man, Touch of Evil, Koyaanisqatsi , Napoleon Dynamite , Blackadder series (TV) , Mystery Science Theater 3000 , Office Space, The Mighty Boosh, 8 1/2, Alphaville, Children of Men, Borat, Superbad, Brick, I'm Not There, There Will Be Blood, Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, Mad Men, Moonrise Kingdom, Rear Window, Louie, Wilfred, Arrested Development

C. Cat Stevens , Harry Chapin , Jim Croce , Bob Dylan , Sleater Kinney , The Minutemen , The Beatles , Led Zeppelin , MC5 , Chuck Berry , Simon and Garfunkel , Uncle Tupelo , Kimya Dawson , Velvet Underground , Beat Happening , Hendrix , Joplin , The Doors , Indigo Girls , B.B. King , Wilco , the Who , REM , fireHOSE , The Clash , Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers , Johnny Cash ,Son House , John Coltrane , Moldy Peaches , Lewis Black , Bright Eyes , The Pixies , White Stripes, Modest Mouse , Dresden Dolls , zydeco , Leftover Crack, Sam Cooke, Cab Calloway, Ornette Coleman, Nomeansno, Arctic Monkeys, Charlie Mingus, The Raconteurs, Nina Simone, Amy Winehouse, Old Crow Medicine Show, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Crass, Blue Oyster Cult (cheesy fave), Decemberists, Tom Waits, Ben Harper, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Jason Webley, Fleet Foxes, Flobots, The Undertones, Antony and the Johnsons, The National, The Mountain Goats

D. French, Thai, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Greek; I'll try anything once.

Is anything essential? Good pizza, my books, good hiking shoes, a memory of quotations from my favorite movies, changing seasons, and music. Oh, and great sex.

How to change the world and bring about a revolution. Getting an article published and a tenure-track job. How exactly I can get the finest wines available to humanity, here and now.

Let's be honest, some Friday nights I like to head down to the bar with a friend and drink good beer, other nights I want watch a movie at the Spectrum, and others I'd rather spend inside reading or with friends.

Sometimes I dance alone in my apartment.

You're interested in someone who isn't plastic-y or superficial, but intelligent and looking for the same (and can be just as interested in a fling as a more serious relationship). I'm someone who likes philosophy, reading Foucault and the like, but also fun and games. Oh, and good food.