liberal, music-loving, vegetarian cinephile with discerning taste minus the pretense. i also love Sunday brunch, shooting pool, thrifting, Scrabble, and meandering through Balboa Park. my cat recently decided that he likes ice cream. oh, and i'm somewhat of a cruciverbalist (my new favorite word, thank you Lisa Simpson)

living it one day at a time, just like Schneider.

painting my toenails. actually, i'm terrible at it, but i try.

my aloofness mixed with attentiveness

books: anything by Vonnegut, anything by Christopher Moore, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Brave New World, Phantom Tollbooth, HHGTTG

music: clash, thermals, rancid, sebadoh, pavement, superchunk, dinosaur jr, sonic youth, johnny cash, pixies, velvet underground, the kinks, alkaline trio, at the drive-in, sparta, drive like jehu, hot snakes, tanner, flaming lips, the cure, jesus & mary chain, billie holiday, hank williams sr/iii, tom waits, billy childish, the wipers, flogging molly, jawbreaker, face to face, oblivians, guitar wolf, $wingin' utter$, mr t experience, vandals, misfits, minor threat, stone roses, detroit cobras, dirtbombs (& the gories), jsbx (& rl burnside), gogol bordello, white stripes, built to spill, beat happening, halo benders, neutral milk hotel, interpol, death from above 1979, wilco, bob dylan, reverend horton heat, ween, mr bungle (anything with mike patton), atom and his package, mclusky, lightning bolt, slayer(!), blackalicious, jurassic 5, aesop rock, tribe called quest...

film: american astronaut, repo man, napoleon dynamite, swingers, high fidelity, clerks, office space, fight club, donnie darko, delicatessen, amelie, stroszek, eraserhead, brazil, wild at heart, stalker, the 400 blows, rififi, a bout de souffle, the state of things, umberto d, le feu follet, le notti bianche, closely watched trains, bande à part, my life as a dog, man with a movie camera, karhozat, le salaire de la peur, elevator to the gallows, il posto, extension du domaine de la lutte, paradise now, landscape in the mist, 25 watts, the bicycle thief, nuovo cinema paradiso, port of shadows, pepe le moko, stray dog, ikiru, noi the albino, kin-dza-dza, climates, last night, after hours, leolo, le diable probablement, the return, survive style 5+, day of the wacko, pi, the professional, shallow grave, nightmare before x-mas, freaks, spider baby, forbidden zone, six-string samurai, wild zero, documentaries, mockumentaries, coen brothers, tarantino, sabu, maddin, jarmusch, hartley, kaurismaki, kusturica, ceylan, herzog, antonioni, melville, wenders (70s road movies), bela tarr, milos forman (pre-american), rohmer, ed wood, film noir, '60s british "kitchen sink" drama, old cheesy sci-fi (including mst3k), zombie flicks, many more...

food: indian, thai, burritos, anything vegetarian

film, music, chapstick, hot showers, stick shift, sunglasses, good stout, dark chocolate m&m's (how did i survive before they existed?)

maybe somewhere in the universe, 8=6

lunch.

looking forward to Saturday night, since i usually have to work on Saturday

i own a pair of MST3K boxer shorts

why shouldn't you? carpe diem!