I'm very project-oriented. I make music. I make visual art. I make videos for said music. (I know. A musician/artist? In New York? How novel.)

I freelance in fashion, doing illustration and visual display work, so I guess I'm pretty handy when it comes to putting crap together, and the like. Making things look pretty.

I grew up on an island off the coast of Georgia (redneck Georgia, not the Soviet Union one). I went to school in Athens (REM, Neutral Milk Hotel, you know the place). I moved to Brooklyn a little over ten years ago. I was a hillbilly; I'm a yankee now. (And I never had much of a southern accent or an affinity for incest, so perhaps I wasn't a hillbilly's hillbilly. [However, a friend of mine did make moonshine.] )

And I get the feeling everyone on this site shares this sentiment, but I'm not really crazy about meeting people online. Nevertheless, here we are...

Making things I love. Focusing on the people I love. Taking stock and regrouping. Trying to transform my apartment into a bit of an art gallery. Or a non-operational bordello. We'll see which one prevails.

Navigating a bicycle in NYC.
Navigating a large vehicle in NYC.
Learning from mistakes.
Then finding newer and less obvious mistakes to make.

I could write more here, but I'd rather you find those things out for yourself.

At this point in time, probably my dumb haircut.

Or the baby arm growing out of my mouth.

Kidding.
What's dumb about my hair?

to name a few:
Authors: most recent favorite-- David Wong
others-- Brett Easton Ellis, Chuck Palahniuk, Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut, Jon Krakauer...

Movies: most recent fave-- Bellflower
other folks involved-- Coen Brothers, Wes and P.T. Anderson, Christopher Nolan, John Hughes, David Fincher, Charlie Kaufman, Spike Jonze, Gus Van Sant, Tim Burton, The Duplass Brothers, Savage Steve Holland...

Music: most recently-- The Kills, Kurt Vile, Jonathan Keevil
others-- Radiohead, Elliot Smith, Pinback, Morphine, Melvins, Black Angels, Concrete Blonde, (early) Jane's Addiction, Twilight Singers, Bob Dylan, Pixies, Beatles, (early) Van Halen, (early) Guns N' Roses, Pj Harvey, Stones, Paul Simon...

Food: I'm quite at home in a neighborhood diner or cafe. I like the older places, with a little history. Even if they're a little dingy.
'Dingy', not 'dinghy'.
Or, yeah, maybe a little dinghy, too.

Sure. I tell you, you tell someone else, then the next thing you know, my arch-nemesis has me by the nuts.

Aesthetics, visually and aurally. Why america loves strip malls so much. Old things. The architecture of New York.
If pets know that we've given them names.

Relaxing-- recording, painting, editing, reading, watching a movie, having a beverage/meal with a friend, or looking for something out of the ordinary to do.

Hell, I don't know. Adventures are great and all, but sitting around with someone special is a pretty grand Friday night, if you ask me.

There's a hole in my septum where a ring once lived. (Not to be confused with 'scrotum' or 'rectum'. [This has happened, yes.] )

you enjoy a good conversation.

you like the idea of dating someone who will soothe you with a beat-up vintage guitar.

you want to have a few laughs.

you've seen my profile in that weird random box on the lower right corner of the page, and you want to tell me what adjective OkC deems as the summation of my existence. (I'm dying to know this.)

In all seriousness, I'm looking to meet someone a little more genuine, and less self-absorbed, less self-proclaimed as 'fabulous' or 'fierce', and less flaky. Sharp wit and dark humor balanced with maturity, sincerity, and consideration for others score major points with me. I'm fascinated to learn more about you, but please ask me something now and again, too. DIA-logue, folks. Dialogue. Not MONO-logue.

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