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El Tigregg

I am here for Friends

About Me



A cashier at my favorite bookstore told me I was gauche. I had to go home and look up the word.

A NYPD warrant search team once stormed my apartment at 3 AM thinking that I was the previous tenant.

I am physical comedy personified. It's not intentional.

I somehow moved into a building that is full of fantastic people and we all spend far too much time together.

I'm very gregarious, but somehow I become introverted at parties.

I am often reading two different books. The one that I would never admit to reading ( usually involving dragons or spaceships ) and the one that I am willing to be seen reading, like something by Paul Auster.

My Interests

random adventures, movies, October, video games, quiet bars, Portland, OR (if a city can be an interest), doing stupid and embarrassing things, telling brilliant stories about those stupid things, brunch, reading, people watching, Barcade, wikipedia

I'd like to meet:

At this point, anyone who wants to hang out without drinking, because I need to recover from the last three weeks or so. I suspect that I may have lost any inclination towards leaving the borough let alone my neighborhood. Though if you look at the empirical evidence I'm totally lying about both of the previous statements.

Music:

Blonde Redhead, Cat Power, The Game, Pinback, ABBA, old Liz Phair, older REM, Stereolab, YYYs, Clinic, American Analog Set, The Decemberists, Ladytron, Depeche Mode, The Arcade Fire, Notwist, Stars, Lycaon Pictus, PJ Harvey, The Walkmen, Mirah, Metric, Laura Veirs (mainly I keep playing the song "Galaxies" over and over), Lali Puna, Death Cab For Cutie, Ms. John Soda, and the best live show I've seen in at least a year: The Hidden Cameras

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia, Groundhog Day, Real Men, Hudsucker Proxy, The Great Escape, Three Kings, O Que E Isso, Companheiro? (aka Four days in September), and all the Sci Fi classics and the not so classic

Television:

Rome, Frontline, Battlestar Galactica, Rescue Me, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Books:

The Secret History, Cryptonomicon, Coyote, Replay, Bel Canto, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Mote in God's Eye, Shogun, The Stars My Destination