Todd - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I love the Chelsea Market and the Farmers' Market at Grand Army Plaza. I'm a short-haired man. While it's not as short as it used to be, I still don't shed much. I spell well. I like to say "thank you" to the conductors on subway trains. I got a new shirt. I rarely cook the same thing twice. I recently made new cabinets for my kitchen, and I fixed the broken lock on my door. Ray from the grocery store once told his brother that, aside from Phil Collins, I'm the coolest white guy there is. Update: Evidently, Tom Cruise and Woody Harrelson are both now cooler than I am. Meh. Go here: www.mccollister.com/todd

My Interests

Making art, making out, making dinner

I'd like to meet:

Curious people, such as librarians, teachers, artists, scientists, and health-care professionals. Lawyers, students, reporters, writers, whatever. If you're curious, I want to meet you.

Music:

David Byrne/Talking Heads, Belly, Johnny Cash, Bjork, Smiths, Smashing Pumpkins, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, The Cure, Bright Eyes, Calla, Sparklehorse, Silver Jews, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ryan Adams, Fela Kuti. Frank Black, but not the Pixies. Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" is the best pop song in years.

Movies:

City of Lost Children, Amelie, Baron von Munchhausen (Gilliam version), Billy Madison, Punch Drunk Love, The Big Lebowski, Brazil, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Joe Vs. the Volcano, pi, Beetlejuice, Batman (1989 T Burton), Big Fish, Ghost Dog, Dancer in the Dark, American Beauty, Ju Dou. There's definitely a fun place for Hollywood spectacle like Die Hard and Transformers too. Holy crap those two were fun. I saw them in two days a few weeks ago.

Television:

I've recently rediscovered the magic of TV as a hobby. I can't believe how entertaining it is. I still don't have a TV, but I've been watching shows on the internet, including Ugly Betty, Dead Like Me, That '70's Show, Malcom in the Middle, The Office, Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts.

Books:

Tao Te Ching, New York Trilogy (Auster), 20.000 Leagues Under the Sea (Verne), The Little Prince (Exupery), Raise High the Roof Beams Carpenters (Salinger), in fact lots of Salinger but not Catcher in the Rye, 100 Years of Solitude (Garcia-Marquez), Henderson the Rain King (Bellow), Gilgamesh, Invisible Cities (Calvino), Jitterbug Perfume (Robbins), Things Fall Apart (Achebe)

Heroes:

Buckminster Fuller, the architect of the geodesic dome as a utopian end to poverty, said, "When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."