I like nouns and verbs and prefer my articles definite. I am a loyal fan of the Red Sox, Patriots, and UConn Huskies, and I still miss the Hartford Whalers. I am onboard for the 24's drive for five. I've studied martial arts for years. I have a black belt in taekwon-do (but taekwon-do, I have since realized, is for children), was getting pretty handy in pekiti-tirsia (before my instructor had to hang up his sticks), and still have a lot to learn in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. I like to run along the Hudson River or wander around the city in nice weather. I also enjoy browsing in bookshops and discovering bars with good jukeboxes.
I'd like to meet:
Cool people, especially writers, artists, and avid readers. It would be cool to discuss things like carving out time to be creative, marketing your work, et al.
Another slow but relatively determined runner.
No bees.
Music:
Music is the devil's language. Here's what I like him to say: Neil Finn/Crowded House, The Pixies/Frank Black, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Replacements, Beth Orton, Bruce Springsteen, Camera Obscura, The Beastie Boys, Oasis, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M., Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music, The Style Council, The Killers, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Fixx, Foo Fighters, Feist, and on and on.
Movies:
For some reason, I really like Jaws. I find it calming, you know, the water and all. Other favorites: High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider, Whale Rider, The Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum, Talladega Nights, Beautiful Girls, Better Off Dead, A Christmas Story, Full Metal Jacket, Blade Runner, The Shootist, Tombstone, Taps, The Empire Strikes Back, Sixteen Candles, Roadhouse, Silence of the Lambs, The Return of the King, Murder by Decree, Breaker Morant, Blazing Saddles, Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Wallace and Gromit, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Negotiator, Trainspotting, Gosford Park, Pan's Labyrinth, The Mummy, The Thing, and Napoleon Dynamite.
Television:
I watch a lot of Discovery Channel (Man vs. Wild, Planet Earth, Deadliest Catch, A Haunting). I like Heroes and loved Arrested Development. I like reality shows that are based on actual talent (TUF; Top Chef: Sam was robbed!). I also watch a lot of sports, which is kind of my job. The rest is all documentaries and random things like Mystery on PBS. I will, like, get a 40 and watch Mystery. It's a good time.
Books:
All-time favorites include: Watership Down, The Great Gatsby, A Separate Peace, Cut, The Night Country, Crime and Punishment, South of the Border West of the Sun, The Secret History, The Sun Also Rises, Into Thin Air, How Late It Was How Late, Blindness, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Stranger Things Happen, The Killer Angels, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, The Remains of the Day, Collected Poems: Ted Hughes, Collected Poems: W.B. Yeats, April Galleons: John Ashbery, Black Swan Green, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, and The Happy Little Whale. I also read a few literary journals, and I am very much into the little subtradition of gothic writers from New England (Hawthorne, H.P. Lovecraft, etc.).
Heroes:
I admire Tim Wakefield a lot, because it takes something to take the field in front of 40,000 people and face the best hitters on the planet with nothing but a 63-mile-per-hour knuckleball and a below average curve.
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