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Mark

I'm so mean I make medicine sick. – Muhammad Ali

About Me

Got a new book coming out - HE TYPED. SHE TYPED. (www.HeTypedSheTyped.com) Yes, another dating book. But this one is different. Really. Spent the last few years in Rio de Janeiro, dividing my time between writing for children's television and working as a close quarters combat instructor. Now I live in Hollywood and alternate between teaching math to kids, selling art, writing on too many projects to count, and trying not to get the three hats confused. (i.e. it would be very bad if I started selling kids). I like islands. Cooking occupies the greatest portion of my days. I was the only boy at an all-girls' school. I know how to swallow fire. I don't like beer. There is literally nothing I do not eat. I've worked as a nude model, a voice-over artist and an elementary school teacher. I fence. I think I'm leaving eleven things out. Sue me.

My Interests

rising to meet all culinary challenges, improvisation, bacon, exquisite cheeses, Stoli, natural history, ephemera, taking things apart

I'd like to meet:

I favor the company of confident people. If you're passionate about what you do, rock out with three bonus points.

Music:

KCRW, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Johnny Cash, Lili Haydn, Rene Risque & the Art Lovers, Pennywise, Dilated Peoples, Caetano Veloso, Velvet Underground, Ella Fitzgerald, Liz Phair, Duke Ellington, Prince, Portishead, Chet Baker, Blondie, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, The Suicide Machines, AC/DC Cover Bands (too many to mention), Mr. Bungle, Richard Cheese, Serge Gainsbourg, Shonen Knife, Steve Miller, New Found Glory, The Queers, Nirvana, Billie Holiday, J Live, Marisa Monte, Ween

Movies:

The Sheltering Sky, Willy Wonka, La Strada, The 400 Blows, Cidade de Deus, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Die Hard, All About Eve, Ninotchka, Crash (the Cronenburg one), Naked Lunch, Dead Ringers, Brazil

Television:

All in the Family, The Simpsons, Arrested Development, Columbo, Good Times, Iron Chef (back in the day, long before they began dubbing, the bastards. now it's just sad.), The Shield, Nip/Tuck, Elimidate, M*A*S*H

Books:

The OED. That's more than enough for me. But, if pressed, I'll also cop to: Invisible Cities, Letters from the Earth, The Tin Drum, Ada, Lolita, In the Lighthouse, The Secret House, Grey's Anatomy, Merde

Heroes:

Willy Wonka, Ricky Jay, Mark Twain