Opera singer, realistic optimist/happy pessimist, old soul with distinguished inner-child, country boy turned urbanite.
Born in Ohio, high school in Michigan, college in NYC, Philly for grad school, bouncing around the U.S. for the summer --

Apple products (electronic or cooking related),
fighting stereotypes (but still laughing at them),
drinking too much wine while cooking,
making zombie noises,
listening,
thinking,
music,
singing loudly (aka opera),
dreaming.

Books: Winesburg, Ohio, Love's Executioner, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Lord of the Rings, Calvin and Hobbes, Dune, books on mythology, psychology, history...
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Movies: Spring summer fall winter... and spring, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, La Meglio Gioventú, When Harry Met Sally, Lost in Translation, Shawshank Redemption, Babel, American Beauty, Army of Darkness, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Spaceballs, Garden State, Departures, Airplane!, Lion King, Mulan, Aladdin, Galaxy Quest, Star Trek 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, the original Star Wars trilogy, the Monty Python movies.
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TV: Arrested Development, Colbert Report, The Office, Dexter, Family Guy, American Dad, 30 Rock, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape, Firefly, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and yes, Battlestar Galactica.
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Food: Anything and everything
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Music: I mostly listen to classical, jazz, and a random smattering of active bands. Favorites are Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Debussy, and Britten,
The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Queen, Frank Sinatra, Jobim, Stan Getz, Ella Fitzgerald, Wilco, Ben Folds, Eva Cassidy, Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright.

Music,
Nature,
Staying healthy,
Purpose,
Netflix,
Sleep,

Everything

Rehearsal/practicing, working out, watching a movie, or out with friends gallivanting around a good city.

I sometimes say really witty things accidentally and then as people are laughing I have to figure out what I just said...