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James

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About Me

i see beauty in ordinary things, a fortune cookie told me so.

My Interests

art, architecture, basketball, cities, food, linguistics, travelling to obscure corners of the world

I'd like to meet:

someone who likes me for who i really am. but i'll settle for someone who finds me attractive enough to keep around for a while-- hell, i always do

Music:

opal, television, magnolia electric company, the fondas, velvet underground, johnny cash, joy division, claude gauthier, dream syndicate, mazzy star, francoise hardy, anything CJAM 91.5

Movies:

leon: the professional, the isle, the matrix, road movie, rocky, the bad sleep well, the lives of others, tokyo drifter, billy madison, the face of another, fargo, last of the mohicans, entre le mer et l'eau douce, russian ark, 13 tzameti, canadian bacon, le mepris, stalingrad, the good the bad and the ugly, army of shadows

Television:

futurama, colbert report, nova, simpsons, seinfeld, law and order

Books:

War and Peace (I'm almost done!), Crime and Punishment, Brave New World, The Island, Utopia, The Big Book of Hell, Time Machine, War of the Worlds, The Name of the Rose

Heroes:

mostly rocky balboa