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Frank

If a million people do a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. (Anatole France)

About Me

I love autumn. I love the Northeast in autumn, when the leaves change, and the air is brisk, and I have to break out the leather jacket.I love reading a good book or the Sunday New York Times on a rainy day. But I'll go out when it's sunny.I love all movies...Hollywood, art, foreign...I like sitting in a dark theater and let someone's dreams wash over me....but the person sitting behind me better not be talking. :-)I enjoy Kielslowski's THE DECALOGUE as well as Justice League comic books.I'm one of those over-educated geeks, the kind that watches every episode of "The Simpsons," but also get all of the inside Thomas Pynchon and Jasper Johns jokes they have...this is what a prep-school education does to you...

My Interests

I'm one of those guys who reads through the New York Times every Sunday. (Although it usually takes me until Tuesday.) I like all kinds of movies. I schedule my week around what movies are opening that Friday. (Does that sound like I have no life? Probably. And remember, I live in New York City, so a lot of movies open here every Friday. Sometimes I can't keep up. That makes me sad. And that really makes it sound like I need a life, which makes me sadder.) I'd be a big theater fan if I could afford it. I also like art museums once in a while. I try to read as much as I can, though with three days out of the week to read the Sunday New York Times, sometimes that is tough. But I live in New York, so I can read on the subway. I'm ashamed to admit that I am addicted to Grand Theft Auto.

I'd like to meet:

Someone that gets all the geeky jokes that I get (see above, re: "The Simpsons") and who finds them as funny as I do.And someone who has their own geeky jokes that I will find funny.

Music:

I was never that big on current music, and I'm getting to that age where I'm going back and re-listening to the music of my youth (read: an 80s pop whore)...But I just saw the new Irish musical film ONCE, and fell in love with both it and the soundtrack (done by Glen Hansard of The Frames).

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia, Amadeus, The Last Temptation of Christ, Barry Lyndon, the STAR WARS trilogy (you know which one), anything by Scorsese or David Lean, The Red Shoes, anything by Kielslowski, the Indiana Jones films, Superman, anything by Michael Powell...the list goes on and on...

Television:

Lost, The Simpsons, The Office, Family Guy. Currently catching up on THE WIRE on DVD...I'm addicted...

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. Anything by Harlan Ellison or Sherwood Anderson.

Heroes:

Abraham Lincoln, and the guy who stood in front of the tanks in Tiannamen Square.