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Martin

Huggles

About Me

Hey! My name's Martin; my boyfriend calls me "huggles," but you should probably just stick with the former.I'm Jersey-raised but spent those oh-so-formative post-adolescent years in NYC, so I consider myself a New Yorker (I was born in New York Hospital if you want to get technical, jerk :-))I live with my boyfriend, Johnny, in Manhattan. I'm working at a small tech start-up with offices in Midtown, and in September I'll be heading back to Rutgers Newark as an undergrad Junior. If everything works out, I'll be commuting from here to Newark for at least the fall semester (reverse commute from hell, anyone?) for classes and working in the city on my off days.I'll add to this as the spirit moves me.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Honestly? Genuinely pleasant people. Open-minded, thoughtful, flirtatious, articulate. True to self, if nothing else.I'm always looking to expand my network of friends. Moving to NYC, even after having spent the majority of my waking hours these past 6 years here, and experiencing the inevitable diaspora of my closest friends from high school being dispersed to the far reaches of the country for college, has left my social circle somewhat lacking.

Music:

A Perfect Circle
Abba
Afroman
Alicia Keys
Anathema
Aretha Franlin
The Ataris
The Beatles
Bette Middler
Beyonce Knowles
Black Eyed Peas
Bonnie Somerville
Bright Eyes
Britney Spears
The Cardigans
Carla Bruni
The Carpenters
Cary!
Cary Brothers
Christina Aguliera
Coldplay
Copeland
Counting Crows
The Cranberries
Damien Rice
The Darkness
Dashboard Confessional
Dave Matthews Band
Death Cab for Cutie
Delerium
Destiny's Child
DHT
Diana Ross
Enrique Iglesias
Evanescence
Faith Hill
Fall Out Boy
Fat Boy Slim
Franz Ferdinand
Frou Frou
Goo Goo Dolls
Green Day
Gwen Stefani
Henry Rollins
Hoobastank
hot hot heat
Incubus
India Arie
Infected Mushroom
Iron & Wine
Jason Mraz
Jay-Z
Jen Wood
Joanna Newsom
John Rouse
Junior Senior
Justin Timberlake
Kelly Clarkson
Kevin Little
The Killers
Kylie Minogue
Lauren Hill
Mae
Mandy Moore
Maroon5
Matchbox 20
Moby
Motion City Soundtrack
Natalie Imbruglia
Nelly Furtado
Nick Drake
No Doubt
Our Lady Peace
Outkast
The Pointer Sisters
The Postal Service
Remy Zero
Rich Lam and Co
Rockapella
Rufus Wainwright
RuPaul
Ryan Adams
Santana
Sarah McLachlan
Sense Field
The Shins
Simon & Garfunkel
Sixpence None the Richer
Something Corporate
The Stills
Taking Back Sunday
Tegan and Sara
Third Eye Blind
Three Days Grace
Tilly & The Wall
Train
Usher
Vancessa Carlton
Vengaboys
The Verve
Whitney Houston
World Inferno Friendship Society
Zero 7

Soundtracks:
Angels in America
Avenue Q
Bare: A Pop Opera
Evita
Matrix Revolutions
Rent!
Team America
Wicked

Movies:

Momento
Requiem for a Dream
Fight Club
Gone with the Wind
Bowling for Columbine
The Wizard of Oz
all of the Lord of the Rings
Love Actually
Star Wars
Garden State
Finding Neverland
Vanilla Sky
Boondock Saints
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sin City
Closer
James Bond
Happy Feet
The Queen

Television:

Family Guy, The West Wing, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, almost anything on the History Channel, Rome, Battlestar Galactica, Law and Order, Desperate Housewives, The Wire

Books:

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
Regeneration - Pat Barker
Essays in Existenialism - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Trial - Kafka
Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Portable Henry Rollins - Henry Rollins
Dune - Frank Herbert
Becoming Visible - Kevin Jennings
The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell