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Mark

Cynicism? I'd call it clear perception through life experience.

About Me

Solar-powered cliche encyclopedia. Prone to bad timing. Values the "little things" more, and henceforth is unconcerned about your current profession. Former turd-polisher. Aware as of late. Is known to sit on a beach for hours on end. Needs to be close to large masses of water. Will occasionally break out in laughter when involved in or imagining moments of absurdity. Will only settle for dark colors in wood grain. Has a penchant for classical music with the morning drive. Friend to children and domesticated animals everywhere. Has been known to write notes in the steam on the bathroom mirror, and will warm up the sheets in winter before someone gets in bed. Secretly wants a mohawk. Would like to get ink also, but my indecisiveness provokes fear, thus preventing me to do so. Prefers small things, like chihuahuas, mini coopers, Herve Villachaise, short hair, and brunettes under 5'4". Although completely unopposed to the other end of the spectrum, which has been par for the course. (like Beam instead of Jack. Equally satisfying, sometimes more, yet you know you're a "Jack man". Does that make sense?) Sometimes questions self and makes bad analogies. Dream job is to be a filmmaker, chainsaw sculptor, or apache helicopter pilot. Hates plantlife that's pointy. Currently grieving hip-hop. Has an affinity for Rube Goldberg machines, for their unecessary mechanical processes to achieve one simple task is somewhat autobiographical. Loathes unecessary wierdness. Takes bad pictures, usually while blinking or caught off-guard with the "candid shot". I hate those.....it's like doing a drive-by.....evil. All in all, Profoundly Gumpish.

My Interests

work, work, work, style, sociology, art, design, physics, home improvements, furniture design, city-wide hide-and-go-seek, moving furniture around every 3 months, the beach, my dog and cat, my family, my niece, nostalgia, inane factoids, trying to understand why people do the things they do, good friends, good fun, going out and spending way too much, and...ummm....stuff!

I'd like to meet:

my doppelganger, and my future, and the reincarnation of Dusty Springfield.

Music:

April '07- Amy Winehouse-"Rehab(Hot Chip vocal)", Whodini-"The Freaks Come Out At Night", Silversun Pickups-"Lazy Eye", Lily Allen-"LDN", Swollen Members-"Pressure", Dusty Springfield-"When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes", The Avalanches-"Since I Left You", Nelly Furtado-"Say It Right", Surreal & The Soul Providers-"They Call Me", The Crystals-"Then He Kissed Me", K-OS-"Fly Paper", The One AM Radio-"Mercury", Dean & Britta-"Song Of You", The Twilight Singers-"Bonnie Brae", Vanity 6-"Nasty Girl", Towa Tei-"BMT", Lahr-"Laughing Song", The Faces-"Ooh La La", Vivaldi-"Winter(allegro non molto)"

Movies:

Cinema Paradiso, The Devil and Daniel Johnston(halfway autobiographical), Meet the Feebles, Love and Sex, Tron, Requiem, Closer, Ran, Huckabees, Fear of a Black Hat, Eternal Sunshine, Life Aquatic, CQ, Whale Rider, Kids, Natural Born Killers, Blow, Serendipity, Magnolia, Tenenbaums, Boogie Nights, Anniversary Party, Danger:Diabolik, Zentropa, Last Emperor, Master Killer, Three Colors trilogy, Amelie, LOTR, anything Jarmusch, Kubrick, John Waters, Coen brothers..........I could go on all day...

Television:

Rescue Me, Lost, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, 24, Project Runway, Best Week Ever, How I Met Your Mother, Hell's Kitchen, Family Guy, Kids in the Hall, Amazing Race, Chappelle's Show, Mr. Show, usually pop in a movie though

Books:

Currently the various works of e.e. cummings(yes, I know I didn't capitalize his name....there's a reason), "Maybe a Miracle" by Brian Strausse, "All Families are Psychotic" by Douglas Coupland, "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand, "Seven Types of Ambiguity" by Elliot Perlman, generally anything fiction, art, or design.

Heroes:

I dunno......Tommy Gavin, Jack Bauer? Define "hero". OH! Atticus Finch. Of course.