I'm a 27 year old college grad (Stanford, '04...so I act much more Cali than DC), I'm into indie movies in general, I keep my TV dial stuck on Comedy Central and Food TV, I like alt/indie rock and underground hip-hop (I freestyle rap, sortof;) as well as some mainstream groups, and I love to cook. I'm currently working for a small company that provides HR Diversity services to the broadcasting industry, although I'm looking for my "dream job" within a nonprofit org to help change the world for the better. I'm basically just looking to meet people, chat, make new friends, date, network, whatever...

And to allay any suspicion, my screen name on here is a Method Man reference, and has absolutely nothing to do with crystal meth/amphetamines. I've never tried them or any other hard drugs (although I don't have a problem being friends with people who have).

***updating my profile on here...stay tuned for a refresh with all current info!***

First of all, check out my Flickr! account (http://www.flickr.com/photos/methticalman) if you're bored...as a photodiary, it's much more fresh (and probably more fun) than this profile. Plus, a single picture says 1000 words, which saves me the time of writing more of these:

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I'm somewhere along my transition from the college mindset to the daily grind of the working life. I graduated from Stanford in 2004 with a B.A. in Science, Technology, & Society (STS). Right out of school I tested the waters as one of 120,000 people working for a huge consulting firm. My project there was within the Department of Education, so wasn't anything heartless like weapons or border wall construction...but it was a pretty typical corporate environment of sustainable mediocrity, plus it could've use a bit more soul. So I left after a year and a half to find my calling, and do some good for the world.

I'm currently working for a small company that promotes diversity in the broadcasting industry, although I'm still searching for my perfect job/career where I'll be able to be creative, challenged, busy, motivated, intellectually engaged, and all that, while helping to make a difference for a good cause. I'd be particularly excited to get involved with communications or development for a liberal/progressive nonprofit, or maybe policy research/analysis for a think tank that focuses on social justice, education, the environment or another ethical cause that I can get behind.

After a few months at work, I moved from local suburbia into an apartment in DC and love it. Well, it also kinda gets a bit lonely sometimes after spending four years of college roommates and the infinite distractions a dorm brings. But it's sweet having a place of my own (until the lease is up, at least).

Outside work, I've been doing some healthy, creative cooking both to pass the time and for meals. That and Comedy Central, Food TV, and trying to pull people from their jobs to chill;-)

If you can give me a kick in the ass, I make a great travel partner for road trips, summer drives, or whatever spontaneity brings to us. Or to answer this question more simply: just trying to enjoy life to the fullest.

I'm LIVIN...

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being random, FIFA 2002, basketball and football (good at a non-Varsity level), sleeping, sending e-mails, being considerate, cooking, mixing drinks, freestylin', taking care of my friends, just chilling with them, being me, and more...

Probably my expressive eyebrows or my smile. Hopefully my radiant soul. Maybe just my shoes, shirt, jeans, or something...but I'll ask around and report back.

*In NYC, my former roommie said I was very "alternative" while we were looking at shirts in Urban Outfitters...I don't know what he meant by that.*

Personality wise, I can be kinda quiet and somewhat random. I guess as people get to know me they realize that I can be really funny with calculated randomness, and that while I may not be the best conversation starter, I am really engaging once you get me going. And chatty...I am happy to just keep you company, even if we don't touch on anything important and just go from random topic to topic.

But just go ahead and break me out of my shell. Or at least out of my pants.

(a) Hagakure - The Book of the Samurai, Rashomon, The Alchemist - Coehlo, The Green Mile - King, The Untameables - Marinetti, The Monk and the Riddle - Komisar, Blink/The Tipping Point - Gladwell, The Botany of Desire - Pollan, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Haddon, The Original Guide to American Cocktails and Drinks, magazines (Wired's my fave), road atlases, and maps (not right after the bartending book, though--I really don't do drinking and driving.)...but I should really read more anyway.

(b) I generally like movies that have something to think about beneath the surface...here are many but not all of the movies I've liked: 8 Mile, 25th Hour, 40 Year-Old Virgin, Adaptation, After Stonewall, Ali G InDaHouse, Ali G Innit, Amelie, American Beauty, American History X, American Psycho, American Splendor, The Amityville Horror, Amy's O, Anchorman, Annie Hall, Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That!, Bad Education, Bamboozled, Batman Begins, Being John Malkovich, Best in Show, The Big Lebowski, Bowling for Columbine, Boys Don’t Cry, Breakfast on Pluto, Brick, Brokeback Mountain, Broken Flowers, Cache, Capote, Casino, Catch Me If You Can, The Celluloid Closet, Chasing Amy, Cinderella Man, City of God, Clerks, A Clockwork Orange, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Contender, The Corporation, Crash, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Crumb, Dave Chappelle: For What It’s Worth, Dave Chappelle: Killing 'em Softly, Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, Dazed and Confused, Dead Man, Death to Smoochy, A Dirty Shame, Do the Right Thing, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Dorian Blues, Down by Law, Easy Rider, Eddie Murphy: Delirious, Elephant, Equilibrium, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Everything is Illuminated, Eyes on the Prize, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Fishing with John, Four Rooms, Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme, Frida, Friday, Funny Ha Ha, Garden State, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Ghost in the Shell, Glory, Go, Good Will Hunting, Grass: The History of Marijuana, Half Baked, Happiness, Harlem Nights, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Higher Learning, A History of Violence, The Hours, How High, Human Nature, In the Realms of the Unreal, An Inconvenient Truth, The Incredibles, Jackass: The Movie, Junebug, Just One of the Guys, Kids, Kill Bill, Kinsey, Kung Fu Hustle, The Last Samurai, Layer Cake, Les Vacances de M. Hulot, Little Miss Sunshine, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, The Lord of the Ringses, Lost in Translation, loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies, Ma Vie En Rose, The Machinist, Malcolm X, The Matrix, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Meet the Parents, Memento, Metropolis, A Mighty Wind, Million Dollar Baby, Millions, Mon Oncle, Most High, The Motorcycle Diaries, Much Ado About Nothing, Munich, Mystery Train, Naked Lunch, Napoleon Dynamite, Oldboy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Original Kings of Comedy, Palindromes, Paradise Now, Perfect Blue, Pi: Faith in Chaos, Pirates of the Caribbean, Playtime, Primer, Pulp Fiction, Raw, Ray, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, Richard Pryor: Here and Now, Rize, Rounders, The Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Saving Private Ryan, Scarface, The Science of Sleep, Seven, Shakespeare in Love, Shaun of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Shortbus, Sin City, SLC Punk, Sleeper, Sling Blade, Snatch, Soldier’s Girl, Soul Plane (sortof), South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut, Storytelling, Super Troopers, Supersize Me, Swingers, Team America World Police, This Film is Not Yet Rated, This is Spinal Tap, Thumbsucker, The Times of Harvey Milk, Traffic, Trainspotting, Transamerica, The Usual Suspects, Van Wilder, Velvet Goldmine, Waiting for Guffman, Waking Life, Welcome to the Dollhouse, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Wordplay, The Work of Director Michel Gondry, Y Tu Mama Tambien, The Yes Men, and maybe a few others.

(c) ALWAYS: ?uestlove, A Tribe Called Quest, Aceyalone, Aesop Rock, AFX/Aphex Twin, Arctic Monkeys, Atmosphere, Autechre, Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Beck, Biz Markie, Black Star, Blackalicious, Built to Spill, Busta Rhymes, Cee-Lo, Common, Dan the Automator, Danger Doom, Danger Mouse, De La Soul, Del the Funky Homosapien, Deltron 3030, Digable Planets, Digital Underground, Dilated Peoples, Dr. Octagon, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Guru, Guster, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Hieroglyphics, Interpol, Jeru the Damaja, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Kool Keith, KRS-One, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Ladytron, Lords of Acid, Lotus, Lyrics Born, Madvillain, Massive Attack, Method Man, MF Doom/Dr. Dooom/King Geedorah/Viktor Vaughn, Morcheeba, Mos Def, Murs, My Morning Jacket, New York Dolls, Nightmares on Wax, Nirvana, Notorious B.I.G., Operation Ivy, Outkast, Ozomatli, Pavement, People Under the Stairs, Pigeon John, Pixies, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rahzel, Ratatat, Redman, Slick Rick, Slum Village, Smashing Pumpkins, Snoop Dogg, Souls of Mischief, Sound Providers, Spank Rock, Sublime, Supernatural, Swollen Members, Talib Kweli, The Flaming Lips, The Pharcyde, The Procussions, The Queers, The Raconteurs, The Ramones, The Roots, The Shins, The Streets, The White Stripes, Thievery Corporation, Tortoise, Tosca, Weezer, Wolfmother, Wu-Tang Clan

AT THE MOMENT: !!!, 311, 7L & Esoteric, Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force, Air, Akrobatik, Amon Tobin, Antibalas, Arcade Fire, Baby Mammoth, Better than Ezra, Big Punisher, Black Sheep, Bloc Party, Brother Ali, Calexico, Calla, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cold War Kids, CunninLynguists, Dead Prez, DMX, Doug E. Fresh, E-40, Edan, El Da Sensei, El-P, Eminem, EPMD, Erick Sermon, Exit Clov, Felt, Gang Starr, Giant Drag, Giant Panda, Gilberto Gil, Gnarls Barkley, Grandmaster Flash, Handsome Boy Modeling School, I Am Kloot, Incubus, Infected Mushroom, Jay-Z, Jedi Mind Tricks, J-Live, Juice, Jungle Brothers, Kings of Leon, Korn, LCD Soundsystem, Ludacris, Lupe Fiasco, Madlib, Matisyahu, Moby, Mogwai, Mr. Lif, Mr. Scruff, Nappy Roots, Nas, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, NOFX, O.A.R., Of Montreal, Paul Oakenfold, Peaches, Pete Rock, Pharoahe Monch, Portishead, Prefuse 73, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Public Enemy, Rammstein, Rancid, RJD2, Roni Size, Roots Manuva, Sadat X, Skillz, Sleater-Kinney, Sneaker Pimps, Spoon, Squarepusher, St. Germain, Superchunk, Supergrass, Sweatshop Union, System of a Down, Talking Heads, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Faint, The High & Mighty, The Killers, The Kinks, The Postal Service, Tiesto, Tom Waits, Tool, TV On the Radio, Velvet Revolver, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

I’m especially into seeing bands play live, although I've been slacking on making it to enough shows, given how close I am to 9:30 and Black Cat. In general I'm into Rap, Hip-Hop, Rock/Modern Rock, Alternative, Techno/Electronic/Ambient, Jazz, Funk, Dance, especially when there's an indie/underground slant. I also don't mind Classic Rock, Reggae, and admittedly some Pop, and I'm slowly trying to develop my appreciation for Classical music. I used to be less keen on Country and that sort of twangy music, but as long as I can joke about it when it sucks, I don’t mind hearing some now and then;-) And since seeing Bunny Rabbit flow over "Sweet Home Alabama" in 8 Mile, and then chilling in Nashville, TN on a road trip home from Cali, Country's A-Ok.

But I pretty much HATE the music industry these days...fucking corporate assclowns in there. But then again living in DC, some might say I should get used to the power structure.

(d) I like the usual stuff, but I eat healthy because I do other unhealthy things and I think finding a balance is a positive thing. My staple is Chipotle. Specifically a bol, lite on rice, beans, fajitas, chicken (double sometimes), mild, corn, guac, lettuce, and a dousing of chipotle Tabasco. Ahi tuna is another favorite, but is more special. I'm down often enough for pizza, doughnuts, cheesecake, pasta, and whatever else I want but I try not to overindulge too often. Also, I like cooking and find it a chance to be creative and productive in that I can come up with my own recipes for healthy and/or delicious foods. Yeah, I guess I'm a foodie as much as I hate the word.

(In no particular order) #1: Family #2: Friends #3 (Post-)Modern convenience, comfort, and luxury through technology (not ashamed to admit it) #4: Eating, drinking, and breathing #5: Life's mysteries (including art, religion, science, human nature, etc.) #6: Individuality

Could you be lucky #7? Hey...remember I said it wasn't in any particular order. Could you debut at #1 in order of preference? Publisher's Clearing House says you already have!

The meaning of life (only some guiding ideas, no certain conclusions yet), why we're here, our country's problems, global problems, inequality, social stratification, happiness, ways to hopefully change the world, bush/mccain:( , obama:) , an end to the 2-party system:D, rap lyrics, rock riffs and drum solos, partying, the future, my future, the past, girls, being single.

I care about politics, or at least political issues and trying to do some good based on logic; openmindedness, upholding of liberty, ethics, justice, and prevention of harm to people's ability to live happy, safe lives that provide maximum opportunity to develop as an individual. I'm aware that this is just my philosophy, and not the Way...but it's grounded and at least somewhat thought-out, so I like to talk about it sometimes. So if you're aggressively apolitical, beware.

Now don't you just want to get inside my head?

Going out to bars and lounges in DC (I'm so down with H Street NE) then coming back to wind down, surrounded by friends, and maybe a few more beers if we paced ourselves accordingly in DC. Sometimes watching movies, sometimes renting them. Rarely watching TV. Sometimes just sticking to Bethesda or Rockville. On special occasions, stepping off the Amtrak line onto the Penn Station platform in NYC. Jetting down to visit my little sister in New Orleans now and then.

But for the most part, the only constant is that I'm always looking to have fun...week to week I find myself up to a pretty varied set of activities.

that I talk to myself while I'm alone to help myself de-stress and get my thoughts in order. The more embarrasing part is that sometimes it happens when I only *think* I'm alone. Luckily it hasn't happened on film at least...Bob Sagat from America's Funniest Home Videos from Full House would eat that up. I know I'm not the only one, but I notice when it becomes silly and I'm not afraid to share.

I have other funny but embarrasing stories that I'd share if you pried. Ask about: the colored pencil, my international travel, or about why I'm such a big fan of red and white stripes. I'm an open, honest person, so go on and ask about these hints above -- or whatever else you may be curious about...

you're fun, openminded, chill, outgoing, smart, geeky, intellectual, creative, artistic, punkish, indie, alt, and/or local...and you think we'd hit it off -- either as friends or something more. Maybe message me if I've messaged you before...reciprocation is friendly! Message me if you can forgive that my profile hasn't been fully updated in what's certainly way too long. Or message me if I haven't messaged you yet...I'm not psychic (honest!) and if you think we'd click, letting me know would also be a nice thing to do for us.

And FYI: unlike some vehement woo-hataz, I don't really have anything against getting "wooed" on here even though they're little nothings, kindof bland as far as information, feeling, or content go...still, if your profile says something about you, I dont mind if you woo me to get my attention. And please forgive me if I woo you...I try to avoid them, but sometimes I just don't know what to say, other than something "I checked out your profile and you seem cool...wanna chat?" And that's what a woo does.

I tend to vibe well with people who are: somewhat more outgoing than I am, and good at asking deep, engaging questions to spark really interesting conversations. Generally, I'm into hanging out with people between 21 and 30ish, in the DC Area, liberal, indie, pierced and/or tattooed (I don't have any myself as of now but I'm pretty open to getting a piercing in particular), not-too-hardcore-punk, artistic, balanced, out of the ordinary, and/or ultra-cute.

Also, I joined a gym network (Results and most WSC locations) and am trying to go 3x/week, plus I'm thinking about running a couple days each week on top of that...so let me know if you want to be workout buddies.