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About Me

I'm a budget bon vivant with a taste for frivolous novels, low dives, and exotic restaurants. I've written 2 novels, a sci fi spoof entitled, "I Married an Earthling" and "Gutter Boys," a New Wave anti-romance. I live in The Mission, manage a used book store, and am getting an MFA in Creative Writing at SF State. I used to think I liked Really Crazy People, but then I changed my mind. My hobbies are cooking, eating, and thinking of ways to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization without getting caught.

My Interests

I spend most of my time reading and writing, eating and cooking, or whining and fretting.

I'd like to meet:

Dexter Fishpaw

Music:

Balkan Beat Box, Le Tigre, Magnetic Fields, Beck, Junior Senior, White Stripes, Ladytron, Dresden Dolls, Clinic, Fatboy Slim, The Strokes

Movies:

Trans America, Wild in the Streets, Ghost World, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Sunset Boulevard, Skidoo, All About Eve, Pollyanna, Polyester, Love Streams, Midnight Cowboy, Night of the Iguana, The Bad Seed, Auntie Mame, Barbarella, The Boys in the Band, Gypsy, Georgy Girl, Juliette of the Spirits, Lady in a Cage, My Fair Lady, Night of the Hunter, Party Monster, The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T., Little Miss Sunshine

Television:

Chic-A-Go-Go, Six Feet Under, Bewitched, Square Pegs, Green Acres, Sex & the City, The Flying Nun, and for news: Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, and Keith Olberman

Books:

Cruddy by Lynda Barry, Sleeping Father by Matthew Sharpe, The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi, Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Cigarette Waltz by Philip-Dmitri Galas, Drugs Are Nice by Lisa Carver, A Perfect Scar by Trebor Healey, Fabulous Nobodies by Lee Tulloch, Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne, The Extra Man by Johnathan Ames, Whistling Song by Stephen Beachey, Married Alive by Julie Burchill, Good Times/Bad Times by James Kirkwood, All Fall Down by James Leo Herlihey, The Male Crossdressers Support Group by Tama Janowitz, The Flower Beneath the Foot by Ronald Firbank, Remember Me by Bo Huston, Resentment: A Comedy by Gary Indiana, The Laziest Secretary in the World by Jennifer Blowdryer, Torpor by Chris Kraus

Heroes:

Ann Magnussen, Quentin Crisp, Joey Ramone, Oscar Wilde, Rudy Guernreich, Diana Vreeland, Federico Fellini, Cintra Wilson, Roberto Matta