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Rick

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

PLEASE NOTE SARCASM IS USED LIBRERALLY IN THE FOLLOWING (that's for you mom): The answer to this question has taken me to 6 cities in the last three years. I'm an unsatisfied young urban professional who wishes to be anything but. I have lived in Detroit, Kansas City, Indianapolis, San Diego, Chicago and now Brooklyn, where I plan to settle down (sarcasm). I'm an adaptable individual, seamlessly negotiating beer guzzling ex frat boys and self deprecating music snobs. I would align myself more with the music snobs, although I'm definitely not self deprecating. I try to fill my life with experiences and try to draw the most from wherever I am. My heart is still in Detroit, but my head and my enthusiasm keep me searching for a place that likely doesn't exist. When I finally extinguish all my possible options I'll probably fall into a state of unrecoverable depression, or be back in Detroit which is the next closest thing. Until then I plan to keep drinking, smoking, snorting, shooting, and dropping, but due to my genetic disposition to risk aversion I'll probably just kiss ass to my middle-manager.

My Interests

music in all of its forms, travel, surfing, literature, sports, art, politics, film, entrepreneurship, gig posters, beaches, disc golf, food, boozing

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who likes to hang out and have an intelligent conversation. who likes to go to shows to watch bands they've never heard of. who sits silently on the beach overwhelmed with the beauty and harmony of the clouds and the waves and the wind and the seagull that doesn't even flap his wings, but still seems to waltz with the rays of the setting sun -- and then jumps in.

Music:

Silver Jews, Single Frame, White Stripes, Will Oldham, Redd Kross, The Stooges, Cannibal Ox, MF Doom, Liars, Adult., Interpol, Robert Johnson, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Deerhoof, The Dirtbombs, Fiery Furnaces, Four Tet, Jimi Hendrix, Beatles, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, The Futureheads, Franz Ferdinand, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Woody Guthrie, LCD Soundsystem, Kinetic Stereo Kids, Like Young, Magnetic Fields, The Microphones, The New Pornographers, Outkast, Pavement, The Sights, Tom Waits, Sufjan Stevens, Ween, Weezer, Talking Heads, David Bowie, Kill Memory Crash, Tadd Mullinix, any good drum & bass, The Streets, Gilles Peterson, Stevie Wonder, Caribou, Dungen, Roxy Music, Tapes 'n Tapes, J Dilla, Art Brut, Wolf Parade

Movies:

12 Angry Men, American Beauty, Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Big Lebowski, Ghost World, Shawshank Redemption

Television:

New York Noise, Simpsons, Frontline, Family Guy, Chic-a-go-go, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

Lolita, The Fortress of Solitude, any Vonnegut, The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Middlesex, Clockwork Orange, Exodus, Art of Modern Rock, Dharma Bums

Heroes:

every soldier in Iraq right now.