Things that make me happy: living within walking distance of the beach; Sterling Morrison’s guitar playing, especially on “Live at Max’s Kansas City”; making friends in other cities and taking road trips to visit; Halloween; cool tattoos or piercings; seeing a live band or standup comedy; reviving old friendships via Facebook; listening to foreign accents or being fooled by a fake accent; curling up in front of the teevee with a bowl of popcorn and a Dr. Who DVD; cheesy '80s songs that have that swirly synthesizer sound during the chorus; the day when all the snow finally goes away for good; trying to stay fit without being a gym bum.

Things that turn me right off: humourlessness; an air of entitlement; dogmatic religiosity; dogmatic politics.

I study the Welsh language as a hobby, so if you speak Welsh, I'm looking for a conversation partner. Diolch yn fawr!

Always looking to meet: wallflowers, cosplayers, gingers, someone who speaks like an Aaron Sorkin character, aspies, anyone for whom the final episode of "Spaced" brought a tear to their eye, tomboys, girly girls, recovering goths, recovering punks, standup comics...I guess what I'm looking for is someone smart, maybe a bit (okay, a lot) nerdy, and a city slicker--I'm just not much for canoeing and sleeping in the woods, my idea of a great vacation is exploring some European capital armed with just a subway map and a camera.

I went to film school, but I'm working an office job right now to pay the bills. I still write (a blog, usually during the film festival)and I keep my evenings full with the gym, movies, studying and playing guitar.

Indexing. Packing a suitcase. High-speed subtitle reading. Jigsaw puzzles. Navigation using not-to-scale tourist maps. Photography of buildings, also of people in costume at fan conventions. Language theory (more than actually learning the language, sadly).

Whether or not I'm currently on fire? I have no idea how to answer this.

Writers: Douglas Adams, James Clavell, Chuck Klosterman, Nick Hornby, P.J. O'Rourke, J.K. Rowling, Ian Rankin, Greil Marcus, Irvine Welsh

My top ten favorite films in no particular order are (at this writing): Blade Runner, In Bruges, 24 Hour Party People, Stranger Than Fiction, Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove, Naked, Videodrome, Wings of Desire. Following close behind would be Until The End of the World, The Graduate, Brazil, Casino, Heat, Watchmen, Almost Famous, The Wild Bunch, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Once, Broadcast News, Manhattan, Son of Rambow, the James Bond movies, Hot Fuzz, Tristram Shandy, The Matrix, Dazed And Confused, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, High Fidelity, Banlieue 13, Harry Brown, The Life of Brian. Favorite directors include Michael Winterbottom, Wim Wenders, Edgar Wright, Neil Marshall, Michael Mann, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Dario Argento, David Cronenberg.

Music: Queen (I've seen "We Will Rock You" three times), David Bowie, The Kinks, Pere Ubu, New Order, Joy Division, The Jam/Paul Weller solo, Tom Waits, X, The Who, Lou Reed, Kirsty MacColl, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Richard Thompson, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Replacements, Billy Bragg, Frank Zappa, The Clash, Husker Du, The Pogues, Nina Hagen, Sandy Denny, The Streets, Lady Sovereign, The Cure, Pixies, Ramones, Jonathan Richman, Randy Newman, Bruce Springsteen.

TV: I'm obviously a big Anglophile, so most of what I love to death (with a few notable exceptions) is produced by the BBC or some other entity across the pond. Dr. Who, Torchwood, The Avengers, The Wire, Farscape, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Gavin & Stacey, The Inbetweeners, The IT Crowd, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes, Luther, Sherlock, The Thick of It, Veep, Mock the Week, The Young Ones, Battlestar Galactica, Millennium, Coupling (UK version), Arrested Development. Also, I'm embarrassed to admit, Highlander: The Series (my only "so insanely stupid I can't stop watching" guilty pleasure). I'm also mourning the loss of 30 Rock. I want to go to there.

Comedy: Rhod Gilbert, Frankie Boyle, George Carlin, Michael McIntyre, Bill Hicks, Dara Ó Briain, Milton Jones, Denis Leary, Ed Byrne.

Food: Chinese, general Asian fusion, Italian. I live not too far from Little India but haven't really explored it food-wise yet though I'd like to.

Podcasts (just saw this on another profile and decided I needed to steal the category for myself as well): Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, Rachel Maddow, How Did This Get Made?, The Nerdist, Radio Free Skaro, The Dana Gould Hour.

1. my passport
2. my camera
3. this mp3 I found online that's basically an hour of background engine hum from the Enterprise stitched together...it helps me get to sleep
4. FanExpo
5. the Cheese Shop sketch
6. popcorn with real butter

My next trip to the U.K. Meeting great people who can change my life. Narrative universes. Time travel paradoxes. Set lists. Who shot the deputy? Where did Edward Scissorhands get the ice?

either at a movie for opening night (I live within walking distance of a good theatre, mercifully) or possibly studying as I take a class Saturday mornings this year.

Despite what my music tastes listed above might indicate, I think that "Don't Stop Believing" may be among the top five greatest moments of American pop music in the last century. Also, I saw Mel C. in concert and it knocked my socks off. An unironically great time was had.

you're cool and strange and you find this whole internet personals thing as bizarre as I do. Or if it also bothers you when bookstores break "fiction" and "literature" into separate sections.