A sense of wonder, good food, my bicycle, making and playing video games, dancing my ass off, giggling, Java the Mutt, tattoos, language and languages, The Church of Brunch, writing, goth without the emo, critical theory, design, whiskey, nesting, passion, watching the sun come up, Dubya on a stick, poetry, and really short fiction.
Music
My taste in music has multiple personality disorder:
Nina Simone, Asylum Street Spankers, The Stantion Warriors, PJ Harvey, Nitzer Ebb, The Smiths, A Tribe Called Quest, Lamb, Cannonball Adderley, Bjork, Portishead, Massive Attack, Sinead O'Connor, Yo Yo Ma, Regina Spektor, Johnny Cash, Etta James, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Dresden Dolls, The Cure, LCD Soundsystem, Esthero, John Brown's Body, John Coltrane, Bob Marley, Front 242, Mos Def, TV on the Radio.
And that's just for starters.
Movies
I've got a thing for films that make me feel (like I've been punched in the stomach):
Boys Don't Cry, Requiem for a Dream, The Sound of Music, The Professional, Elvira Madigan, Annie Hall, Love Jones, The Incredibles, Lilo & Stitch, Best in Show, Office Space, The Big Lebowski, Ong Bak, Death of a Salesman, Scratch, Girl on the Bridge, Oldboy.
Television
The Wire is possibly the most important television ever made. You should watch it so that we can talk about it over coffee.
And of course Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly will live on in my heart forever. Joss Whedon for President.
Books
Perennial favorites: The White Boy Shuffle, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Everything Is Illuminated, Sightseeing, Presenting... Sister Noblues, Jitterbug Perfume, Invisible Man, Maud Martha, almost anything by T.S. Eliot, Martin Espada, or Bukowski, and Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis.
Currently reading: Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron and Grace After Midnight: A Memoir by Felicia "Snoop" Pearson from The Wire.
On deck: Any of several books my 45-minute commute to work makes interesting.
Cornell University
Ithaca,New York
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Major: English Language & Literature / Creative Writing, Poetry
Minor: Creative Writing, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
Clubs: eXXit only all gyrl comedy, Peer Educators in Human Relations, Take Back the Night Collective, and just about every activist organization on campus.
All woman but just a girl, living life in and around The Little Big City. A pen sometimes helps, as do a pair of turntables, headphones, a good book, some shades, and occasionally a lead pipe.
I'm a writer of poetry and really short fiction as well as a dancer, bedroom deejay, and project manager at a video game company.
I have this dream of retiring to a lavender farm in the south of France and running slow-motion through the fields wearing long, flowy dresses while my own personal trip hop soundtrack plays in the background.
Pretty awesome, huh?
Who I'd like to meet: Stand-up guys. Sit-down comediennes. Wayward pit bulls. Idea people. Go-getters. Rose-smellers. Glue-sniffers. Recovering slam poets. Break dancing revolutionaries. The intelligentsia.
Thanks for being my new friend. This is a video a few of my friends from Berlin produced. I'm the guy playing the accordion in front of the Golden Gate Bridge.
I hope you enjoy it.
