I hate when people have quotes. But I am so tempted to quote Glen Campbell, I have a stomach ache. Of course, I am talking about Galveston.

making art. being mean to high school students. the two are not connected. playing soccer on the coldest day of the year (and 1/52nd of the warmer ones). participatiing in a horror movie club. gobbling up culture. being an uncle and an honorary uncle to dozens (okay, just one dozen).

listening, conversing/arguing politely, speaking extemporaneously, talking about most anything with anyone, changing my mind through conversation, worrying, thinking critically about the world,

teasing and being teased.

I am really bad at planning, planning for travel, not getting lost, and typing the word "the".

the higher the hair, the closer to god.

Godard, Oshima, Guy Maddin, Albert Brooks, Tsai-Ming Liang, Fassbinder, Suzuki, Sirk, Dardenne, Hou Hsiao Hsien, Haneke, Weerasethakul, Hitchcock, and Verhoeven.

George Saunders, John McPhee, Gary Shteyngart, Richard Powers, Gore Vidal, and Wittgenstein.

Arrested Development's return is marked on my calendar. I admit to a guilty pleasure in old detective shows and Game of Thrones and a non-guilty pleasure in Archer and Community. My best friend has not seen the Wire, and I think it is a problem.

Silver Jews, Fleetwood Mac, Dirty Projectors, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, Kinks, Clash, Zola Jesus, Frank Ocean. and thousands more.

crusty bread, self-medicating with music, sketchbook, and three things that will go unnamed. plus one other thing that grants more things.

trying to be the favorite uncle despite losing the toy-giving arms race.

conversations with people of a different political persuasion wherein I convince them of something significant.

epistomology, aesthetics, relevance/irrelevance of art, late capital.

I have an obsession with 80s funky R&B, film history, radio sidekicks, slow movies, Northern and Southern Soul, Panda Raspberry licorice candy, cheesy funk, new-wavy music made now that really just remind me of a childhood love of Depeche Mode, insurance investigators, the Hayes Code, the Comics Code, and the Hamurabi Code.  

art opening, dance party, obscure film, drinks with friends, or making something.

If you are the kind of person who would drag me to a cultural event, that would be swell. Dance, film,lecture, music, comedy, off-broadway, but please, don't ask me to go to musical theater. A man has to have some standards.