I moved to Brooklyn last summer, looking for a change of pace and to find my footing in the art world down here. I work mostly under a pen name, and my mediums include pastel, acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink, and digital (although I dabble in screen printing and wheat pasting, too..) Basically, I'm looking to get as much work freelancing as an illustrator as I can, which feels a lot more possible in NYC than in my previous home. I also do some writing, sometimes professionally, sometimes just for fun. My current list of expectations in life include: exploring my new home, seeing incredible sights, listening to new bands, checking out some awesome gallery/street/comic book art, committing time to be creative (preferably on a daily basis), taking up new hobbies, meeting new people & making new friends.

Working on creative projects, illustrating, exploring, meeting new people, trying to strike a balance between work & play, and paying the bills through bars & restaurants like so many creative types...

Drawing, writing, staying up to date on politics & social issues, making great food on the fly, almost anything creative, pool, dancing, debating, conversing, listening, kissing. Recently, been pretty good at getting lost in New York.

My hair & tattoos & maybe my clothes?

Don't read much fiction, more of a New Yorker reader, although my comic book collection is pretty awesome. But I tend to read non-fiction more, on subjects ranging from cosmology to political science to whatever else interests me at the moment..

My favorite movies are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Breakfast Club, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead series, Wonder Boys, and a bunch of others...

Favorite shows are Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Community, Louie, The Daily Show/Colbert Report, Misfits, Spaced, Always Sunny, The Office, Mr. Show, X-Files.

Muisc: I'm always open to new things, but the stuff I tend to listen to a lot: Radiohead, Tool, The Doors, Primus, Nirvana, Bjork, Pixies. Also on the list are Mos Def, Deftones, Mum, Sigur Ros, Nin, Neutral Milk Hotel, Modest Mouse, Ugly Casanova, Blockhead, Led Zepplin, Saint Vincent, The Kinks, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Broken Social Scene, The Decemberists, Sleater Kinney, The Beatles, pretty much any 90s grunge/alt rock, and yeah, I think the 80s produced some great songs, too.

Food: Anything that is delicious and reasonably priced.

Freedom of speech, close friendships, sketchbook, headphones, humor, intelligent conversation.

What would make for good art, what other people must be thinking about on the subway, how I really should get a map of New York, ideas for books, movies, and comics, which I may or may not write down, how to bridge the gap in logic between the right and the left, how the universe works, sex (who doesn't spend time thinking about that, though?), how amazing New York can be, every day.

Out with friends at a bar/show/restaurant.

That I don't drink coffee? People think that's weird a lot of the time, or else they congratulate me on it. But really, coffee just makes me jittery, so it wasn't that hard to give up.

If you're ok with something friendly and casual with a woman in an open relationship, or if you're interested in having fun with a cool creative couple.