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the RZO

I am REALLY pretentious.

About Me

I'm passionate. I'm an attention-hog. I like to think I'm a gentleman. I used to look like Fred Savage, but now I resemble Robert Downey, Jr. Hopefully. I cannot fucking stand people who don't know how to behave themselves in bars.

My Interests

wine, argument, movies, books, music, politics, conversation, art, beauty, philosophy, dinner parties, cocktail parties, being pretentious, dancing, gay clubs, plays, making out

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with passion and intelligence. People who like to dance. Franny AND Zooey.

Music:

The Magnetic Fields, Belle and Sebastian, The Harlem Shakes, Beirut, Communique, The Management, The Holdsteady, Beat the Devil, Bloc Party, Metric, Melody Club, The Sounds, La Laque, The Faint, The Postal Service (when I'm not sick of them), Depeche Mode, The Killers, Yann Tiersen, New Order, indie-pop, brit-pop, electroclash, shitty dance music.

Movies:

Memento, Amelie, Children of Men, The Dreamers, Pulp Fiction, Talk to Her, Mulholland Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, L'Armee des Hombres, Requiem for a Dream, Dark City, Swingers, Run Lola Run.

Television:

Project Runway, Studio 60 if they don't cancel it, Lost, I'm afraid

Books:

Too many to name, though lately I've been reading a lot of biographies of failed political leaders

Heroes:

Aneurin Bevan, Mario Savio, and Barney Frank. Look 'em up.