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Bjorn

I Have Finally Arrived To This My Space Nonsense!

About Me

hard-working, hard-playing, funny yet serious, motivated to succeed but really wanting to be completely lazy, smart but not pretentious, and seemingly cool on the exterior but completely and utterly a love bug inside.

My Interests

New York, Berlin, Prenzlberg, Paris, film, literature, history, architecture, nightowling, museums, necking, yoga, Fahradfahren, pilates, boogie-woogie, crossword puzzles, backgammon, rummy, gastronomie, Whole Foods, cooking, red wine (Vacqueryas please), vodka, Pimms (only when Matthias makes it), Lillet, Deutsch, speakeasies (i fuckin' love the '20s), MUSIC, traveling, walking everywhere (people were born to walk), taxi cabs (when walking seems like a chore - like at 4:30am)

I'd like to meet:

friends of all sorts who want to laugh, eat, drink wine, dance, chill, and just talk. romantically, men who are tall, handsome, comfortable in their own skin, funny, smart, good to others, and like to talk.

Music:

Phoenix, Nick's & Edie's mixes, Madonna, EBTG, Royksopp, Kings of Convenience, Erlend Oye, Phoenix, FC/Kahuna, Broken Social Scene, Sia, Scissor Sisters, Common, The Streets, Jack Johnson, Rufus Wainwright, Death Cab For Cutie, Cinematic Orchestra, Daft Punk, Thievery Corp, Coltrane, Ellington, Billie Holiday, Chet Baker, Dusty Springfield, ZERO 7, Hole, L.A.M.B., No Doubt, Postal Service, Aretha Franklin, Marlene Dietrich, Ella, Billie, Fleetwood Mac, Bjork, Erykah Badu, Massive Attack, after-hours compilations, classic rock, and hip/hop & pop

Movies:

Marie Antoinette, The Rose, Dangerous Liaisons, Devil Wears Prada, Walk on Water, Harold and Maude, All That Jazz, The Turning Point, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Live Flesh, Garden State, KBv.1 & 2, Terms of Endearment, All About my Mother, Wonder Boys, Moonstruck, Elizabeth, Almost Famous, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, The Royal Tenenbaums, My Best Friend's Wedding, Stealing Beauty, Hannah and Her Sisters, Run Lola Run, Amelie, Manhattan, Wonder Boys, All About Eve, The Bourne Identity and Supremacy

Television:

Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, Project Runway, LOGO is fun, HBO's Elizabeth I was the shit! Entourage, Project Runway, HBO...mi amor, Best Week Ever, Sex & the City (I miss thee), Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Angels in America The Weather Channel, SNL, Ab Fab, docs on PBS, History Channel fodder, IFC

Books:

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ((J. Foer), My Uncle Oswald (R. Dahl), On Beauty (Z. Smith), Play It As It Lays (J. Didion - thanks Nick!!!), Sarah (JT LeRoy), Felice Picano's Men Who Loved Me & A House on the Ocean A House on the Bay, His Dark Materials (P. Pullman), Middlesex (J. Eugenides), Catcher in the Rye (J.D.S.), Sophie's Choice (W. Styron), Breakfast at Tiffany's (Capote), Another Country (J. Baldwin), A Boy's Own Story (E. White), White Teeth (Z. Smith), Memoirs of a Geisha (A. Golden), Kavalier & Clay (M. Chabon)