I'm a Criminal Defense, Employee Rights Trial Lawyer in LA, who also experiments in other exotic areas of the law like copyright and 1st Amendment, but just recreationally.

While appearing shirtless with sunglasses is normally not associated with being a good lawyer, hit me up too if you need one--I clean up nice.

I wear french collar shirts (often with skull and cross bones cufflinks, or gun cufflinks, or grenade cufflinks). I even wear a suit and tie and jacket in court and am addressed as Mr. Severino, which means I'm reluctantly an adult I suppose, I knew it was bound to happen). Fucking time.

I like film (recent favs include: The Wrestler (I fuckin love Mickey Rourke), Sin City, Revolutionary Road, Little Children, The Fog of War and Many Others, most 'indie' rock, especially electro-clash, post-rock, and other pretentious hyphenated genres, special love for Morrissey (in a non-gay kinda way, not that there's anything wrong with that).

Enjoy going to shows, dancing, going to movies]], writing, reading and thinking about legal stuff, [eating at late night diners. Voracious reader, habitual drinker, occasional smoker, and huge daily show and colbert report enthusiast. I am slowly making my transition into adulthood.

I love my work and hate our criminal system and the injustices it produces, especially against Blacks, and to a lesser extent Hispanics. As far as my personal experience, whities don't have too much to worry about (e.g., i get pulled over in my native state all the time, never here).

I enjoy debating and am pretty intensely political. I'm an Anarcho-Syndicalist...mostly because it sounds cool, and is also hyphenated. I'm also really into philosophy (especially existentialism and political, (especially anarchism) film (mostly bullshiting about godard, literature (jameson, post-modernism), , and legal theory (want to resurrect critical legal studies--marxist movement in law). I normally talk too much.

I'm a lawyer, doing criminal defense, plaintiff's side employment law, and personal injury law. I work out of my apartment, since I like to and I represent broke ass criminal defendants for way lower than i should, damn that bleeding fucking heart.

I have a hippie twin and a roomba...and 6 figure debt. And a fast car with a good stereo system (and with a clutch, turbo and 260 hp and torque...although it's a chevy, meaning it's a little unreliable) , which is really what's important in life...at least in socal.

I'm an argumentative asshole, which I've tried to turn into a good thing by being on the good side of Criminal Law (the Defense) and Civil Law (plaintiff). I play tennis and can ride my bike with no hands, but these are rather pathetic talents.

I especially enjoy arguing weird cool stuff like Angels Stadium not being a public place (winner) and my client not having knowledge that she had a needle in her possession as a defense (loser).

I'm 'good' at general intellectual things, like trivial pursuit and theory of all kinds (political, sexual, film, literary--that's what i studied in college...hence law school--alternative would've been starbucks)...and of course there are various unmentionables). I'm conceited, verbose, and disorganized too...if only those were positive attributes.

I'm good at nonsensical tangents too.

Probably my faux Jewish nose or my callypigian buttox, depends if I'm coming or going. Maybe the glasses too.

I also have a strange fixation on skull and crossbones cuff links and other skull and pirate related apparel on belt buckles, etc.

I'm planning on getting an Anarchist A tattoed, in part due to my love of irony, but in all reality fuck the prisons.

My heroes are Cedric Young, my namesake, an actor and firefighter who could kick Cedric the Entertainer's ass, and Gary Gauger, my dad's friend who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his parents and spent three years on death row in john wayne gacy's old cell before being released. he's been exonerated now.

also, on a celebrity basis: lou reed, mark e. smith, nick cave, mickey rourke, morrissey.

i'm a total pacifist but I love guns and knvies.

a. anything klosterman, sedaris, kafka, camus, sartre, barth, etc.

b. the wrestler, donnie darko, godard, bunuel, solondz, (tv: daily show, colbert, bill maher, curb, seinfeld, weeds, entourage, msnbc political stuff). cannot wait for inglorious bastards.

c. electro-clash, punk and post-punk, indie-pop, post-rock; Morrissey; Cohen; Dylan (i love that he got lost, he's becoming a poor old man); The Boss. I'm white, and don't pretend I can get into hiphop, I can't. I grew up in rural Iowa, so I don't really relate nor understand what the rapper is saying, plus now I get my vicarious feelings of horrible racial injustice from my clients.

d. indian, italian, cheeseburgers, beer, poptarts, reese's, flinstone vitamins, red wine, springwater, camel light wides, diet coke, pills.

other than the above and obvious...

ipod, diesel, american apparel, caffeine, nicotine, red wine or cold corona. sex. (7's better than 6)

sex...and existence and profound shit too...but mostly sex. also legal stuff and death, mortality amuses me sometimes, but i'm pretty atheistic.

a lot of stupid shit, like where the fuck my keys, wallet, phone is.

fighting the man and trying to decrease our increasingly ridiculously over-incarcerated population (i don't think any nonviolent offense should be criminal, and that we should legalize drugs and prostitution for fuck's sake...and tax the shit, that'll make for a balanced budget).

at a show or at fred 62s or another late night diner, or out dancing (bullet allnighters!), or at home watching monk and psych....now that i'm self-employed the day of the week ain't too important to me

i have a diplomatic passport. (for real). perfect for my 2nd heroin smuggling business with diplomatic immunity.

you want to accompany me to go dancing, eating, drinking something caffeinated and/or alcoholic, or watching a flick or trashy TV. and by this i mean you want to based on my profile, since i prefer that to exchanging okcupid correspondence.

you like faux jewish boys, actually italian/german/irish/ and british. (but more stereotypically jewish in spirt though than anything else, cause I'm glad a part of my body wasn't severed).

you like self-deprecating senses of humor while being full of myself, and enjoy people who love being walking contradictions and do not take themselves seriously.

if you're up for something caffeinated, alcohol infused (or better, both that's great...maybe even food too if i splurge), or see a movie or show together, and maybe get some dinner, or possibly dancing...i know i'm quite the creative one what it comes to dates.

if you've actually read this far; and still find me interesting and not a self-absorbed prick, or anything i've written too offensive, annoying, or disgusting. also, you have to be o.k. with the e.e. cummings style of non-capitalization, and my inconsistent use of it.

i'm an anarchist, which i realize is quite ironic, but i'm truly committed to depopulating our extremely overpopulated prisons immediately except for violent offenders. i need an A symbol of course at some point, but waiting on my twin bro to get one together.

oh, also if you don't mind completely random tangents.