Irish guy from Boston area, has been in Brooklyn for 7 years. Takes 5 minutes to make a chess move, loves old people humor, has dog, has car, wields a trumpet and guitar.

Reading, writing, adjunct prof for 6 years, grad student for 7, playing music, stand up comedy, not taking everything so goddamned seriously, goddamn it.

jokes, jokes, jokes!

Eyes, lips, butt, boobs

Music: Pixies, Mirah, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sonic Youth, Slowdive, Japandroids, Elliott Smith, Head and the Heart, Magnetic Fields, NIN, Sigur Ros, Wooden Birds, Stars, Bowie, Yo La Tengo, Yeasayer, Bowerbirds, The Pogues, Social D, nofx, A Perfect Circle, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Wilco, The Clash, Amanda Palmer, Interpol, Deerhunter, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Leadbelly, Robert Johnson, Gustav Mahler, Arvo Part...I dunno, shittons more... I used to sing for the River City Rebels 10 years ago and guitarist for Teletextile 2 years ago.

Food: Falafel, Indian, kale, jalapeños, anything in a crockpot

Authors: Rousseau, Arendt, Thoreau, Emerson, Whitman, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky

Movies: All Charlie Kaufman stuff, all Christopher Guest stuff, Monty Python, Coen Brothers, Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, Muppets Take Manhattan, There Will Be Blood, The John Adams Miniseries, most things playing at Angelika.

TV/Youtube/Netflix: Jeopardy!, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Louie, Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Tim and Eric, West Wing, Wonder Years, Daily Show. Lately, old Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali fights, old Bryan Magee interviews with famous philosophers, documentaries about the French and Russian Revolutions.

All the Christmas movies and shows (and music).

The city of New York
The city of Boston
Podcasts from NPR and itunes U, esp. Radiolab and Tom Ashbrook
Puns
Trivia nights
Best of Chris Farley on Netflix
My doggie
Friends (not the people, the show...jk, the people)
David Cross and Bob Odenkirk as a unit
The Onion
Dry, earthy red whine
The bitterest of IPAs
Medium roast coffee

I have no earthly idea. Usually pretty big questions, but I'm better off thinking about whatever is in front of me that day.

At a music or comedy show or a bar, finding or making the party.

Nope!

You enjoy the company of cool dudes.