I read the dictionary for fun. The Oxford English Dictionary is my favorite. I want to find someone to make mix-tapes for and write letters to.

I teach ESL at a local university. When I'm not working I spend most of my time reading, listening to records, and talking about these things over drinks with friends.

I like to dress up. I'm usually the only person at the bar on Saturday night wearing a necktie.

Let's see...
Books:
More than I can really name..."Count of Monte Cristo," "Moby Dick,"Feast of Snakes," anything by Haruki Murakami, Martin Amis, or Flannery O'Conner.
Movies:
Anything by Wes Anderson or the Coen Brothers.
TV:
The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Downton Abbey, and British comedies.
Music:
Radiohead, The Clash, Fleet Foxes, Black Keys, The Magnetic Fields, Pavement, Wye Oak, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Decemberist

Books, my iPad, my shaving kit, my record collection, my dyson vacuum, and the Oxford English Dictionary

How to become better at the little things in life...parallel parking, finding the best set of headphones possible, shaving, making the best grilled cheese sandwich, literary criticism....

If you don't think it is a bad thing to be called an "elitist."