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About Me

I'm a romanticist. This doesn't mean what you're probably thinking it does, but I'll take credit for it anyways.
I work on lyrics. This also doesn't mean what you're probably thinking, but as before I'll happily take credit for it.
I am a grad student, an avid filmgoer, a gay video gamer (gaymer?). I will order the weirdest-sounding thing on the menu if I've never tried it before. I wear glasses when I'm too lazy to put in contacts (on average, one day out of three). I grew up in the mountains in Colorado, so yes, I know how to ski.
I am a karaoke superstar. Feed me a shot of jaeger and I will sing the sweetest songs you ever done heard.
Tried writing a screenplay once. I suppose that because I've neither thrown it away nor finished it I'm still trying.
Fictional character I'd most like to date: Philip Marlowe
Anime character I'd most like to date: Sagara Sanosuke

My Interests

Reading, Moviegoing, Gaming, Music-listening-to, Jogging (or yogging, it might be a soft "J"), Drunken Boxing, Hot Man-On-Man Action

I'd like to meet:

If you:
cooked a meal of more than one course in the last month: ++
own a game console: +
own a modded console: +++
ever snuck into 3 movies in one day: ++
have a nice butt: +
know what the booker prize is: +
own a booker prize winner: ++
read it: +++
read it twice and lent it to a friend: ++++
ever built a piece of furniture: +++
know who Joe Strummer is: +
Wore black for Joe Strummer: +++
watched a film series in sequence in a weekend (Kill Bill counts): +++
ever made your own t-shirt: ++
read this far: ++
like sushi: ++
dislike sushi: --
will buy me sushi: ++++
are a gay a-list actor: +++++
are marrying Katie Holmes: ------------------------

Movies:

Casablanca, Annie Hall, Grosse Pointe Blank, The Princess Bride, Sergio Leone, Classical Hollywood Melodrama: Stella Dallas, Imitation Of Life, Blonde Venus, Mildred Pierce (yeah, I know it's noir), Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve (I love you Barbara Stanwyck!), Gaslight, Early to late-80s Jackie Chan (although his recent stuff is a great return to form), any of the great choreographers: Busby Berkeley, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Bob Fosse, Lau Kar-Leung, Yuen Wo-Ping, Corey Yuen, Donnie Yen recently, Kill Bill (don't distinguish between 1 and 2; you know it's all one movie), Cronenberg, Lynch, Kurosawa, Miyazaki. Next on the list: Guy Maddin.

Books:

Thomas De Quincey, Oscar Wilde, H. P. Lovecraft, Raymond Chandler, William Gibson, Terry Pratchett, Thomas Pynchon (the few I've been able to finish - Damn you, Gravity's Rainbow!) For the time being I'm too busy reading to read anything for fun. When I have the chance again, I'll probably try: Clarissa, the Gormenghast trilogy, maybe either Proust or the Arabian Nights - I like the idea of something that takes a couple months to get through.

Heroes:

Jesus is a hero of mine. Not for the crazy beliefs, I just think he's a really talented carpenter and you gotta respect craftsmanship.

My Blog

I've decided...

From here on out I'm dating sevens.
Posted by C on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:31:00 PST

Today's quote comes from the interweb.

"You tell people it's important to watch a Merchant-Ivory film and they sit down and start watching it and they keep looking like "Oh, I think I'm supposed to be getting something out of this... this ...
Posted by C on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:49:00 PST

Lust for fame

I just hit 300 page-views on myspace! I'M GOING TO HOLLYWOOD*!!!!*I might just stay home and watch tv.
Posted by C on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 03:51:00 PST

Weekend of Triumph

On saturday I played the best scrabble game I ever played in my life. Probably the best scrabble game I'll ever play in my life. I used all my letters and got the 50-point bonus four times in a row. T...
Posted by C on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:25:00 PST

Paraphrasing Garth Ennis

Sometimes it feels like you just plain run out of internet.
Posted by C on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:38:00 PST

Biggest Exam Of My Life, pt II

I passed! As of this afternoon at 3:15, I have a masters degree in English. Go me!
Posted by C on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 09:41:00 PST

I probably shouldn't still be awake.

Biggest test of my life the day after tomorrow. Friday, depending on whether I've passed, I start writing either a dissertation or a resume. Wish me luck, nonexistent reader.
Posted by C on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST

Lexicographic intervention

There ought to be a word for the feeling you feel when you look at someone's profile on here and they have 9000 friends. It's not straight-up pity... because each of those 9000 people got there the sa...
Posted by C on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:13:00 PST

My New Horoscope

The MySpace Blog editor has this thing at the bottom where you can choose your mood. It's a drop-down box with a very long alphabetical list of possible moods. (One of the options is "dorky," another ...
Posted by C on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:49:00 PST

Catty comments from Romantic writers

William Hazlitt says about Jeremy Bentham, the English philosopher: "His works have been translated into French-- they ought to be translated into English." Hazlitt 1, Bentham 0.
Posted by C on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:43:00 PST