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Alex

There's malice and there's magic in every season.

About Me

I've been in L.A. for about eight years. Six different apartments, two in West Hollywood, one in Los Feliz, two in nebulously situated neighborhoods near freeways, one (currently) in Silverlake. Seven roommates (with nothing bad to say about six of them). Now living by myself. I prefer to call my decor "minimal," but I've been told "serial killer" is an apt description as well. So that's probably this next year's project (help me, Drew). Seven jobs. Four in the Valley. I've lived my whole life in California, with brief-ish excepted hiati (hiatuses?) in NYC and England. I work too much but my professional life seems to be going well. I hate having my picture taken. I entertain fantasies of dropping off the grid and hiding in the desert. One of my best friends says I'm self-absorbed, and this paragraph would lead me to agree with him.

My Interests

Tennis (more into playing than spectating). Running. The New York Times crossword. Comic books. "Real" books. Baseball. Movies. Television. Trivia. Music. Scrabble. Pilates (recently... I know. gay gay gay). Podcasts. Daytrips out of L.A. Drinkie drinkie.

I'd like to meet:

assistant recording engineers. fact-checkers. extras. natural police.

Music:

bob dylan. pet shop boys. the mae shi. patrick wolf. belle & sebastian. elvis costello. recently... white williams, animal collective & panda bear, bruce springsteen, the killers.

Movies:

Nashville. Paris, Texas. M*A*S*H. Velvet Goldmine. 24 Hour Party People. Contempt. Breathless. Shoot the Piano Player. Day for Night. Amadeus. Short Cuts. Magnolia. Real Genius. Ferris Bueller. Nowhere. The Godfather and II. Repo Man. Almost Famous. My Dinner with Andre. The Royal Tennenbaums. City of God. Masculin Feminin. Tron. Buckaroo Banzai. Children of Men. Point Break. Die Hard. Lord of the Rings.

Television:

Burn Notice. In Plain Sight. The Wire. 24. The Daily Show. The Colbert Report. The Office. Jeopardy! Entourage. Project Runway. Top Chef. Lost. 30 Rock. Big Bang Theory.

Books:

Anything by David Foster Wallace. The Elementary Particles. Y: The Last Man. Ex Machina. Preacher. Heart of Darkness. In Search of Lost Time. Moneyball. Franny and Zooey. The Assassins' Gate. Ragtime. War and Peace. Anything by Chekhov. A Sentimental Education. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Great Gatsby. The Ice Storm. V. Vineland. Non-fiction books about entertainment corporations.

Heroes:

Mr. Hanlon. John McEnroe. Brian Eno. Tennant & Lowe.