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adam

Shun the frumious Bandersnatch

About Me

I make bad first impressions.

My Interests

Reading, travel

I'd like to meet:

Someone capable of indirect forms of humor.

Music:

portishead, digable planets, white stripes, astor piazzolla, early dre, barry white, nina simone, pink floyd, paul simon, beethoven, ella fitzgerald, charlie parker, chopin, snoop, missy, the smiths, the stones, dire straits, weezer, nora jones, depeche mode, michael jackson, bowie, the gorillaz, django reinhardt, the durgas. if you can sing, i'll follow you around new york (well, brooklyn).

Movies:

some like it hot, lost highway, office space, secretary, planes trains and automobiles, best in show, eddie murphy raw, mulholland drive, heat, the great dictator, what about bob, the russia house, a fish called wanda, strictly ballroom, dr. strangelove, shall we dance, the hudsucker proxy, brazil, the fog of war, jaws I, the color of money, el mariachi, memento, shine, the sting, apocalypse now, l.a. confidential, the big lebowski, raising arizona, scent of a woman, black cat white cat, a clockwork orange, the pink panther, the professional, ronin, la femme nikita, dirty rotten scoundrels, the princess bride.

Television:

the daily show, twin peaks (first season), fawlty towers, the "nudge nudge wink wink" episode of monty python's flying circus, the office, arrested development

Books:

ada, absalom absalom, lolita, moby dick, antigone, stranger in a strange land, love in the time of cholera, invitation to a beheading, the witches, song of solomon, ecrits, james and the giant peach, franny and zooey, siddhartha, emma, fair realism (barbara guest), the science of god, the political unconscious, madame bovary, disgrace, the tin drum, macbeth, the brothers karamazov, the arcades project, the mayor of casterbridge, the iliad, in the time of the butterflies, knowledge of higher worlds (rudolf steiner), go down moses, the new york trilogy, riddley walker, light in august, pedro paramo, asterix and obelix, too late the phalarope, sound and the fury, midnight's children, king lear, the heart of darkness, the giving tree, as i lay dying, the autograph man, the death of artemio cruz, ulysses, the BFG, motherless brooklyn, the fortress of solitude, the blue notebook, the book of illusions, a house for mr. biswas, the german ideology, a prayer for owen meany, the human stain, the house gun, nine stories, the world according to garp, middlemarch, a fine balance, waterland

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell!