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Andrew

About Me

I'm leaving my cushy telecommuting job to go teach English in Japan. Maybe I'm crazy?

My Interests

alphabetizing, cooking, chess, museums, parkour, piano, reading, sleeping in piles of clean unfolded laundry, soccer, travel, watching foreign films before hollywood butchers them with crappy remakes

I'd like to meet:

closet nerds; beat boxers; future iron chefs; TNG fans

Music:

Alice in Chains, Chopin, Coldplay, DJ Shadow, Frank Sinatra, Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Led Zeppelin, LTJ Bukem, Nujabes, Muse, Pink Floyd, RATM, Satie, Sigur Ros, Talvin Singh, The Who, Yoko Kanno, Zero 7

Movies:

25th Hour, Amelie, Billy Madison, Boondock Saints, Clerks, Eureka, Garden State, Half Baked, Hero, In The Mood For Love, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Mallrats, Marathon, Monty Python (Holy Grail), Rumble in the Bronx, Shaolin Soccer, Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects, Woman of the Dunes, Zoolander

Television:

Bleach, Chappelle's Show, Coupling (BBC), Da Ali G Show, The Daily Show, Family Guy, Iron Chef, Lost, The Muppet Show, The Simpsons, The West Wing, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, all nature shows and most of the stuff on national geographic and discovery

Books:

Borges: Collected Fictions, Kitchen Confidential, Marcovaldo (and pretty much anything Calvino), The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse, Norwegian Wood, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Something Under the Bed Is Drooling, Trainspotting

Heroes:

Anyone who said they could and did.