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Barack my space!

Wherever you are, you're still driving my car.

About Me

books, bourbon, neon, the roof, dancing, country club, sriracha, the giant, dillas, kites, rosaries, tennis, long-arming, vintage, painting, trophies, pirates, scrabble, running, 500rummy, jamz, textual harassment, movies, beaching, camping, bloody marys, cooking, pedestrian, laughing, crosswords, photos, flare, neckfacing.------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------"Alas," said the mouse, "the world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when at last I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. -Kafka------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ --------"The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle." -David Foster Wallace on the foundation of humor in Kafka

My Interests

always entertained

I'd like to meet:

CertainlyOnlyOneLoverEverYou. get it?

Music:

Army of Me, Bicycle Thieves circa 2004, Hello Tokyo, Like Yesterday/Bleed the Dream, Head Automatica/Glassjaw because Daryl Palumbo wails, Monopoli before/during/after breakup, Jeff Buckley, Elvis Costello, Morrissey/The Smiths, Ryan Adams, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Rilo Kiley, The Pixies, Rufus Wainwright, Muse, Juliana Theory, Canasta, Scissor Sisters, Mates of State, The Sounds, Saves the Day, Ramones, Feist, Justin Jones, Nightmare of You, Pepper's Ghost, Midtown, Taking Back Sunday, Lola Ray, Jamie Cullum live, Petracovich, Bush, Washington Social Club, The Cure, Belle & Sebastian, Fall Out Boy because of Chris Dennis Boo and Dirty, The Faint, Jesse Malin big time, The Used, Indigo Girls and all the lesbians in my life, Phantom Planet and screenwriting devoted to Schwartzmann, Zero 7, Mew, Phoenix, Brand New, The Thrills, Razorlight, Sigur Ros

Movies:

The Lives of Others, Bad Education, Shopgirl, The English Patient, Bug, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, The Fountain, Garden State, Adaptation, Wonderboys, Being John Malkovitch, Singles, Royal Tenenbaums, Darjeeling Limited, Reality Bytes, Empire Records, Once, Cant Buy Me Love, Laurel Canyon, American Psycho, Kissing Jessica Stein, anything with Parker Posey, most importantly- movies by JONATHAN BRINCK

Television:

ramsay's kitchen nightmares bbc, top chef, project runway, bravo bravo bravo. planet earth, this american life. Mr. Show. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT r.i.p.

Books:

A Short History of Nearly Everything- Bill Bryson, Crime & Punishment & The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoyevsky. John Donne poetry. The Sirens of Titan & Every other word he has written- Vonnegut RIP. The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged- Rand. East of Eden, To a God Unknown- Steinbeck. For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises- Hemmingway. Wuthering Heights- Bronte. Zero- Seife. The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Kundera. Tales of the Unexpected- Roald Dahl.

Heroes:

James Klein, Bob Vacca RIP, Kurt Vonnegut RIP.