I'm sure (or at least hope) those who know me best would agree that I'm a somewhat intelligent, funny, and thoughtful person. I find kindness, consideration, and sincerity to be very attractive qualities in other people and try my hardest to use such qualities in the way i treat others. I value the friendships in my life and tend to be protective of the people I care about.

That being said, I tend to show people my affections through friendly teasing and love it when I can toss good banter back and forth with someone who can really bring it out of me. Basically, I'm a smart ass. A nice one though.

I'm really into people messaging me and after writing back, never hearing from them again. Pointlessness is the BEST!

I currently work as an officer for a federal regulatory agency, which isn't quite the kick ass, burn rubber job I had in mind while I was studying Heidegger as an undergrad, but I do get to drive all over Southern California visiting really cool and interesting places.

As far as future plans go I'm currently undergoing the application/ background investigation process for admission into a state law enforcement academy for criminal investigators. So, with a little luck I hope to join the SPCA-LA as a Humane Officer and spend the rest of my working days locking up people for crimes against animals because fuck them they deserve to be. I also dislike most cops. Life is weird, yo.

In my spare time I teach literacy and composition skills to older adults and ESL learners through a public library volunteer program as well as to inmates in jail. The ability to read, and express ideas in written form is essential regardless of one's life situation.

Making you laugh, listening to music, saying things...

That I'm a somewhat tall, and easily approachable person who tends to smile a lot when speaking to someone.

The first book to win me over as a kid was Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Clearly. To this day sitting in my car eating fried chicken while watching the ocean on a rainy day still ranks on my to-do list. Since then I've been drifting along in a continual state of geekery over books and writing.

In terms of theoretical writing, I enjoy working through the thought of Hannah Arendt, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Derrida. On the more fictitious side of things i have found myself continually engaged, frustrated and inspired by the writing of Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie, Haruki Murakami, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. When I'm looking for something interesting, but not all-consuming I enjoy reading the essays of Walter Benjamin, Joan Didion, and Flannery O'Connor as well as the poetry of Langston Hughes, Alfred Tennyson and Mahmoud Darwish.

My usual musical suspects include Yo La Tengo, the Magnetic Fields, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Guided By Voices, Michael Gira/ Swans, Jonathan Richman/ Modern Lovers, Sara Watkins, Uncle Tupelo, the Pastels, Toots and the Maytals. Rolling Stones, Nina Simone, Desmond Dekker, Jimi Hendrix, Neko Case, Grass Widow, the Vaselines, Explosions in the Sky, Talulah Gosh, Holly Golightly, and pretty much everything that Phil Spector produced during the 'Wall of Sound' era.

As far as movies go, I pretty much dig the usual fare. My favorites include Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sideways, Wendy and Lucy, Moon, There Will Be Blood, Last Tango in Paris, Million Dollar Baby, Contempt, No Country For Old Men, the Elephant Man, Blazing Saddles, Caddyshack, Terminator, Repo Man, and shitty 80s flicks.

Um, I don't eat or own any food. Not my thing, really, but I do have a subscription to Netflix that I use every so often. I don't know what that means.

My phone unfortunately. Other than that perspective, imagination, laughter, curiosity, and chemistry. To be honest I'd probably trade laughter for a fastrak thing in a second.

How not to live a bullshit life, what Rachel Maddow's top five favorite punk records are.

Pretty much just doing the usual. If I'm not doing that then I'm probably doing something else.

I'm a pretty good guy. I don't really say things about myself like that too often because it feels sort of strange that I would need to, but I imagine that here would be the place to do so if I ever were to. Which I just did. In the first sentence of this paragraph.

Despite being somewhat of a cynic, I am very much (for better or worse) a romantic as well as a bit of an idealist. For myself, sharing my life with a person whom I connect with is the only aspiration that really means anything. Finding that person is the only good fight there is. Suck it, war on poverty.

Oh, and while I'm perfectly fine, and at times amazing, at being sociable, I find I prefer to experience those situations in incremental amounts. Seriously, like I really want to go to some goofy dinner party and listen to friends drone on about the amazing trip they took to Nicaragua when they never even thought to maybe invite me to go along. Hey, I like good times just as much as the next person. I mean, so what if they were on their honeymoon. You should feel bad too because it's partly your fault. Thanks, jerk.

Meh, you probably shouldn't. I doubt true love can be found on a free online dating site. I mean, you would think so, right?