Music- 90s alternative (Fiona Apple, Hole) jazz (Nina Simone, Ray Charles) folk punk/anarcho-punk (Blackbird Raum, Abandon Ship!) blues (Son House, Lead Belly) Books- As it turns out I'm currently reading too much. I usually devour books one at a time, feverishly. I've got Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics, Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly, David Graeber's Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Hubert Selby Jr.'s Requiem for a Dream, and Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn (again) all in a sort of reading trainwreck. I recently finished Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Movies- Directorial debuts, "cerebral thrillers", "gritty independent flicks", dark humor/satire, and most everything before the '50s (i.e. at least no police procedurals or pathologized criminals). I like the anti-authoritarian tradition of classic film noir and tend to enjoy subversive, creative, or character-driven stories.

Hiking...anything in or about nature, cooking, gardening, reading, anarchism, and metaphysics/critical metaphysics are some things off the top of my head. I'm interested in enjoying things thoroughly and I like having present conversations. Nowadays I'd rather have a comfortable silence than to fill the air with my own chatter. I don't particularly like filling out this profile...