Music is like air to me. I like coffee an awful lot. I'm a reading fiend. I like looking at maps. I have a serious love affair with the Art Institute. I don't eat meat, but have no problem cooking it for my carnivorous friends. (Weird, I know.) I enjoy people watching and crowds. On weekend afternoons, I can often be found wandering aimlessly around Chicago. On weekend nights, I'm just as happy staying in with a home-cooked meal (or pizza), a bottle of wine, a movie, and a cute, cuddly boy as I am going out. I have a pretty witty sense of humor, but it usually takes awhile for it to show itself when getting to know someone new (whether it be a new friend or new lover). And last but not least, I have a wide-ranging appreciation for films of all sorts from old, classic, black-and-white Hollywood fare to Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns to Alfred Hitchcock to film noir to French new wave to silly, teen comedies, and no matter how many guy friends try to convince me Die Hard 2 is the best of the series, I hold steadfast at Die Hard with a Vengeance being my favorite of the four.

I have a degree in Communication Arts: Radio, TV and Film. I moved to Chicago three years ago and am gainfully employed.

Listening.

That I'm tall?

The last great book I read was The Movies of My Life by Alberto Fuguet.

Other books that I've recently read and really liked:
It Takes a Worried Man by Brendan Halpin
Where You Are by George Constable
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness and the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson
MacGregor Tells the World by Elizabeth McKenzie
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris

My favorite movie of 2008 was In Bruges.

Some of my favorite movies (in no particular order) are:
Mutual Appreciation, Over the Edge, True Romance, Breathless (the original), In Bruges, Army of Darkness, 28 Days Later, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, M, Good Fellas, Garden State, Trainspotting, Pickpocket, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Raising Arizona, Sex & Lucia, Almost Famous, Scream, Gossip, Dazed and Confused, Waking the Dead, Dream for an Insomniac, Imaginary Heroes, Strangers on a Train, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original), Me Without You, Beautiful Thing

Some of my favorite bands are:
The Cribs, Adorable, Kaiser Chiefs, Stellastarr*, Jesus & Mary Chain, The Libertines, The Enemy, Dirty Pretty Things, Ride, Slowdive, The Kinks, The Cars, The Killers, Kasabian, The Strokes, Boy Kill Boy, Hope of the States, Descendents, New Order, Shout Out Louds, Franz Ferdinand, Polak, The Charlatans, My Bloody Valentine, The Boo Radleys, Chapterhouse, Verve, Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick, Superchunk, The Replacements, The Cure, Dinosaur Jr., The Promise Ring, The Hives

Some of my new(er) musical obsessions are:
Glasvegas, The Courteeners, One Night Only, The Pigeon Detectives, The Wombats

What, no favorite TV category?!?!?

Food: Anything that goes well with sangria (and isn't meat).

Coffee. The Cribs. The public library. My friends. My MacBook Pro. Sexy shoes.

Anything and everything.

Either home with a movie and some wine, out with friends, or at a gig.

I never learned how to do a cartwheel.

If you enjoy coffee, good conversation, and/or have a good book recommendation.