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Brian

Some kind of beautiful stranger

About Me

The very basics: Born here, went to school here (Occidental, graduated '95), moved to New York when I was 21, publicized Broadway shows for 6 years, took two years off to get my Master's in Creative Writing (New School, graduated '03), moved back to L.A. a year later, but continue to consider myself a New Yorker. Doing my best to figure out how to enjoy L.A, but it ain't making it easy.

My Interests

Writing, Reading, most Pop Culture phemonena, Super Mario, tequila, L.A.-based artists, Dogs

I'd like to meet:

Smart, good-hearted people with senses of humor, fashion and pop culture who NEVER utter the phrases "I don't drink," "I don't read," "I don't watch television/I don't own a TV," "I hate dogs."

Music:

Madonna, The B-52's, Dolly Parton, Erasure, Culture Club, most early 80's pop

Movies:

Nine to Five, Moonstruck, Six Degrees of Separation, Fargo, Stranger Than Fiction, Kill Bill (both), Judy Berlin, Last Summer in the Hamptons, Spirited Away, Mary Poppins, Star Wars 4-6, Blood Simple, Far From Heaven, Moulin Rouge, The Warriors, The Matrix, Run Lola Run, Short Cuts, Toy Story 2, Steel Magnolias

Television:

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, 30 Rock, Heroes, The Riches, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, My Name Is Earl, New Adventures/Old Christine, Project Runway, Survivor, America's Next Top Model, Amazing Race, How I Met Your Mother, Seinfeld, The Mole with Anderson Cooper

Books:

The Brooklyn Follies, The New York Trilogy, To the Lighthouse, Another Country, As I Lay Dying, The Death of Vishnu, The White Bone, Siddhartha, Edwin Mullhouse, Augusten Burroughs' first two memoirs.

Heroes:

My sister, my mother, Bill Clinton, Hiro Nakamura, Phoenix, Nightcrawler, Storm