Jonathan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

People are always asking me if there's anything I regret, or would change. The answer is no! Not a thing. If I hadn't had the pain I wouldn't be me. And I like being me. Everyone should. I have a friend who says, "Treasure yourself." I surround myself with happy colors--yellow, coral, hot pink and Mediterranean blues and greens. I've persuaded myself that I hate things that are bad for me--fattening food, late nights, and loud and aggressive people head the list. I'm friends with myself, so I do things that are good for me, otherwise I wouldn't be good for others. I spend most of my time with people I'm fond of, and that includes my working time, too.

My Interests

maps and schematics, dumpligs, phonological theory, belgian fashion, riding on subways, driving to Hegewisch on Sunday afternoons,

I'd like to meet:

Femmes and fatties. Ina Garten.

Music:

I listen to all the same music that snarky mid-twentysomethings listen to, but usually only after people that are much cooler than me have decided that it sucks.

Movies:

Far From Heaven, Fargo, Flirting With Disaster, Female Trouble, Chinatown, Double Indemnity, Grey Gardens, Times of Harvey Milk, Douglas Sirk, I "Heart" Huckabees, vintage Almodovar (and Mala Educacion), late-career Joan Crawford flicks

Television:

I'm a sucker for pretty much every HBO series and most of the stuff on Bravo. My reality TV watching tends to skew towards shows that are either completely exploitative (anything by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, for instance) or at least margianlly queer... usually both. I'm getting sick of Top Model.

Books:

I've been on a Haruki Murakami kick for a while now. His books are like 700 page crack. Of all the gay essayists du jour, I prefer David Rakoff. I like Mario Vargas Llosa and Italo Calvino. I don't read as much as I should, especially fiction.