Interests:
Sports, Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Pool, movies, traveling, backpacking through Europe, history, song lyrics, seeing new cities for the first time, sabermetrics, working out, Mexican food, sushi, Los Angeles Angels, NFL, my apartment, TiVo, my iPod, my dogs, music, Spanish, Portugese, French, Hugo Boss, Faconnable, Ermenegildo Zegna, sharing, ascendancy, transcribing, philosophizing, ascertaining, devising, elucidation, discerning, perusing, and of course, enlightening you.
Favorite Places:
Barcelona, Valencia, Waikiki, Lisbon, Waikoloa, Monaco, Irvine, Washington, D.C.
I'd like to meet:
People with style, class, and charisma. People that see me for all that I am and everything I'm about. I enjoy people who are great conversationalists. Those who know their passions in life and can talk about them always impress me. Good listeners, intelligent and considerate people are key too.
There are a lot of really, really great people in life...and I'd like to meet every one of them.
Music:
Acceptance, The Academy Is, A.F.I., All-American Rejects, Amber Pacific, Anberlin, The Ataris, Brand New, Broken Social Scene, Coldplay, Copeland, Counterfit, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab for Cutie, Default, Finch, Foo Fighters, The Format, Further Seems Forever, The Get-Up Kids, Harvey Danger, Hidden in Plain View, Hoobastank, Incubus, Jack Johnson, James Blunt, Jimmy Eat World, The Juliana Theory, Kenna, Linkin Park, Mae, Matchbook Romance, Moody Blues, Name Taken, New Found Glory, Noise Ratchet, Off By One, Over It, Palisade, Panic! at the Disco, The Perishers, Postal Service, Saves The Day, Slow Coming Day, Slugg-o, Snow Patrol, Something Corporate, Stairwell, Taking Back Sunday, Teddy Geiger, Thrice, Thursday, Travis, We Are Lions, The Westmark, 50 Cent, Coolio, Murphy Lee, Pharell.
Movies:
Films:
Matrix, Enemy At The Gates, Before Sunrise, Spartan, Elizabethtown, Boondock Saints, Wicker Park, Pulp Fiction, Hudson Hawk, Gladiator, Last of the Mohicans, The Patriot, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, The Program, Ace Ventura, The Notebook, Last Man Standing, Major League, All the Right Moves, Get Carter, Varsity Blues, Way Of The Gun, The Order, Fight Club, Last Samurai, Rounders, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, The 13th Warrior, Kill Bill, 300, 40-Year Old Virgin, A Knight's Tale, A Lot Like Love, American Pie, Anchorman, Attila, Austin Powers, Basic, The Beach, Before Sunset, Blood Diamond, Bob Roberts, Boiler Room, Boogie Nights, Braveheart, The Brave One, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Bull Durham, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Casino Royale, Closer, Collateral, Contact, Count of Monte Cristo, Confidence, Constantine, Contact, Crash, Cruel Intentions, Dark City, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Dazed & Confused, The Departed, Die Hard, Dirty Work, Donnie Darko, Dumb and Dumber, Equilibrium, Excess Baggage, The Family Man, A Few Good Men, Field of Dreams, Fifth Element, Final Fantasy, First Knight, Forrest Gump, For Love of the Game, Gandhi, Garden State, Gattaca, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Ghosts of Mars, The Godfather, Good Will Hunting, Grand Canyon, The Great Gatsby, The Green Mile, Grind House, Grosse Pointe Blank, Groundhog Day, Half Baked, Happy Gilmore, Heat, The Hunted, The Illusionist, Independence Day, Inside Man, In the Valley of Elah, The Jacket, Jerry Maguire, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Kingdom, Kingdom of Heaven, Kung Fu Hustle, The Ladies Man, Lady In The Water, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Life is Beautiful, The Lottery, London, The Lost Batallion, Love Actually, Lucky Number Slevin, Man in the Iron Mask, Meet Joe Black, Memento, Miami Vice, Michael Clayton, Million Dollar Baby, Mission to Mars, Moon Over Parador, Mission: Impossible, Much Ado About Nothing, Mulholland Drive, Mystery Date, Mystic River, Napoleon Dynamite, Narc, Van Wilder, Ned Kelly, The Ninth Gate, Not Another Teen Movie, O, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Old School, Office Space, Original Sin, Panic, Payback, Platoon, Playing God, Predator 2, Proof of Life, Punch-Drunk Love, Red Planet, The Replacements, Road to Perdition, Rules of Engagement, The Saint, The Salton Sea, The Sandlot, Saved!, Serendipity, Serenity, The Shawshank Redemption, Sin City, Sleepless in Seattle, Smokin' Aces, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Stay, Stir of Echoes, Sum of All Fears, Super Size Me, Super Troopers, Suspect Zero, Swingers, Swordfish, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Tigerland, Tears of the Sun, Thank You For Smoking, Top Gun, Training Day, Transformers, True Romance, The Truman Show, Two Girls and a Guy, Unbreakable, Usual Suspects, Vanilla Sky, War of the Worlds, Wedding Crashers, Zodiac, Zoolander.
Directors:
Cameron Crowe, David Fincher, Michael Mann, Paul McGuigan, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, Morgan Spurlock, Michael Moore, M. Night Shyamalan, Ridley Scott.
Television:
Sportscenter, The O.C., Lost, Entourage, Friday Night Lights, Heroes, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Rome, SNL, Conan O'Brien, Coupling, Pardon the Interruption, NFL Live, Saved By The Bell, 30 Days, Passport to Europe, Globe Trekker, World Odysseys, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Pushing Daisies, and pretty much anything on ESPN.
Books:
East of Eden, Moneyball, Bleachers, War and Peace, For Whom The Bell Tolls, A Call To Service, Next Man Up, Fight Club, This is Berlin, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
Heroes:
My Dad, Brad Melsby, Barack Obama, Paul DePodesta, Theo Epstein, Jim Cross, Jesse Lacey, John Kerry, Cameron Crowe.
