CURRENT MISSION

To always make it home alive.

Interests

...fine... cuisine..wine..beer..scotch..scenery..history..literature.. woodworking..vinyl LPs..poetry..comfort..wooden houses..nooks..grand kitchens..sweeping or grandiose romantic gestures..warm towels..fiddling with my hands when i'm nervous talking to someone..watching someone else and knowing that they're nervous talking to me because they're fiddling with their hands..untied shoelaces..enormous sacks of grain..rolling hills..the sound a manual camera makes when the shutter is engaged..huge romance..feeling comfortable in my clothes..cooking new recipes..teaching old recipes..cheese shopping..homemade anything..cutesy eye flirting..alleyways and catacombs..funny old bearded men..writers..

• literature
• poetry
• cooking
• recipes
• wine
• cheese
• beer
• shopping
• clothing
• woodworking
• history
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite Films:
The Royal Tenenbaums, Apocalypse Now, Dead Man, Down By Law, The Graduate, Wild Strawberries, Scenes From a Marriage, Jules et Jim, No Direction Home, Manhattan, Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Squid and The Whale, 8 1/2,Contact, Amarcord.
Favorite Music:
Far too much to mention. For a condensed idea; Múm, Animal Collective, Sigur Ros, Cass McCombs, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Ed Harcourt, Charles Mingus, M83, Patrick Wolf, The Stooges, T. Rex, Television, Yo La Tengo, Van Dyke Parks, Randy Newman, Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, Interpol, The Unicorns, Japanther, The Hollies, Jesus & Mary Chain, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Can, The Band, Daft Punk, Air, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Bill Fay, Eddie Bo, Archie Bell & The Drells, and The Byrds
Favorite Books:
The Sound and The Fury, North, Cat's Cradle, The Waves, The Grapes of Wrath, Mrs. Dalloway, Franny and Zooey, Return of The Native, Nine Stories.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can't translate Ulysses into classical Greek but I am quite handy in the kitchen.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Finland, India, Ireland, Mexico, Panama, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Mexico, United States