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Winfield

between apathy and irony

About Me

I'm kind and forgiving of strangers to a fault, but I expect a lot from my friends. I often stay up all night reading. I work with wonderful people designing software.

I love music, but have no musical talent. I get out for art and music all the time. I live on the river and I've got an unhealthy obsession with kayaking. In the winter, I race my car on frozen lakes. I love playing poker, every couple of weeks I'll convince myself I'm good at it.

I keep up with the news and politics. I'm more liberal than 95% of the country, but more conservative than 96% of my friends.

My Interests

achewood, caffeine, conversation, dancing, fiction, genetics, getting lost, indian food, kayaking, people watching, philosophy, poker, politics, psychology, this american life, underground music, mixtapes, spoken word.

I'd like to meet:

People living in the space overlapping underground music and independent thought. I enjoy people who challenge me. People in my life who force me to grow are the ones I value the most.

People who want to go kayaking anywhere in New England! Boston! Maine! Name it.

Bring along your ethics and your issues and your taboos.

Don't ask me to add you unless we already know each other, but feel free to say hello.

Music:

My Weekly Top 10:

Jungle, dubstep, hip-hop, downtempo, triphop, breaks.

Amon Tobin, Atmosphere, Björk, Bonobo, Cibo Matto, Clint Mansell, Deerhoof, Everything but the Girl, Fourt Tet, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, Jolie Holland, LTJ Bukem, Le Tigre, Macromantics, MF DOOM, Morcheeba, Neutral Milk Hotel, Philip Glass, Prefuse 73, Rasputina, Regina Spektor, Sage Francis, Sleater Kinney, Songs:Ohia, Soul Coughing, Teebee, The Bad Plus, The Postal Service, The White Stripes, Tom Waits, Zero 7, Venetion Snares.

Movies:

independent films, satire, realistic action. capote, the fountain, high fidelity, lost in translation, magnolia, pi, requiem for a dream, ronin, the science of sleep, traffic, waking life, way of the gun

Television:

The Wire, Deadwood, Family Guy, Colbert Report, Lost, Rome, Scrubs

Books:

fiction, poetry, philosophy. don delillo, j.m. coetzee, jonathan franzen, neal stephenson, friedrich nietzsche, richard feynman, salman rushdie, umberto eco, william gibson.

Heroes:

Elliot Spitzer, H.L. Mencken, Richard Dawkins, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones, Patrick Fitzgerald, Seymour Hersh, Keith Olberman.