My grandmother gave me the handle I use on this website. She used to tell me I had sand in my shoes because I would never stay in one place very long.... she also called me a fart in a whirlwind, but I don't think that phrasing would attract many women to my dating profile.

Freedom over security.
I'm honest to a fault.
Lacking in irony.
Willful.
Empathy.

New job. I came to New York to work at the UN and now I'm starting at a real estate agency in Bushwick. Not as far a stretch as it seems. New dog coming soon! Planning summer fun. I just went to a basketball game at MSG, and soon going to a Yankees game and a couple concerts. And if I can't fix my motorcycle, hopefully getting a new one.

Making furniture I've been told. Cooking. Playing Capoeira Angola (look it up) in an earlier life before sport's injuries. I'm a good handyman, which is rare these days. Talking politics, no matter how uncool that might be.

That I'm a silver fox.

Read Game of Thrones this winter. Now more music and less books.

Recently read Shanataram, then some Tom Robbins and Jack Kerouac. All good, except sometimes Kerouac's stream of consciousness thing is annoying. I get it, but it's surprisingly dated.

Bon Iver, Washed Out, Real Estate, Animal Collective, Bonnie Prince Billy, Metronomy, Bill Callahan, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, George Jones (RIP), Quasimoto, MF Doom, Andrew Bird, Peaking Lights, Rhye, James Blake, Foxygen, Parquet Courts. It's all over the place I know...

Errol Morris documentaries, Coen brothers, and I will still admit I like Wes Anderson. Oh, and that Planet Earth series was freaking amazing.

Arrested Development, Breaking Bad, Daily Show, 30 Rock, Louie

Motorcycle trips upstate
Roberta's cornmeal pancakes
A frosty beverage after work
Heart rate increasing
Passport
Only five things it seems.

Let's be real, besides food, sex and money? Cats of course.

Lately working, but sometimes going out to dinner with friends. Sometimes working on a project. This winter I was building a dining room table on Friday nights!

Kinky is sexy.

You're not ashamed to be on this site: that's so played out, it's 2013.
I prefer brunettes
You've been camping or would want to try.
You realize there is a entire world beyond Manhattan, and it's worth visiting!
You're educated, cultured, stylish and insatiable.
You seek balance in your life.