von Koenig

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Real Estate
Occupation Account Manager
Location Chicago, IL, United States
Interests everything '80s, dry humor, tanqueray, vintage Mercedes, foreign films, new wave, the English language, exotic pets, Parker Posey, pens that tumble, sarcasm, winter, fresh fruit, spectacles, xanax, Panes, my laptop, political discourse, pontificating, autumn, baroque architecture, daydreaming, matinées, socialism, traveling, the Bourgeois Pig, riding bicycles, Stella Artois, operating the Internet while under the influence, tea, most things European, GGMB, masturbating, tee shirts, Wes Anderson films, ice water, cafés, adults without children, beer gardens, flip flops, sandwiches, Harry Potter and his crazy adventures, mushrooms that boom, cinema, bodegas, vintage bikes, my life...
Favorite Movies Gotcha!, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Goonies, Some Kind of Wonderful, Scarface, Labyrinth, The Neverending Story, Full Metal Jacket, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Goodfellas, Reservoir Dogs, Boondock Saints, Pulp Fiction, Sexy Beast, Dead Poets Society, This Boy's Life, The Big Lebowski, The House of Spirits, The Professional, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion, Addicted to Love, Blow, Pleastantville, Garden State, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Usual Suspects, Igby Goes Down, Party Girl, Swimming Pool, I Shot Andy Warhol, A Life Less Ordinary, Lost in Translation, Wonder Boys, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Traffic, The Anniversary Party, Donnie Darko, Almost Famous, Saved!, A Separate Peace, The Dreamers, The House of Yes, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Best in Show, Lost and Delirious, The Virgin Suicides, Happenstance, Donnie Darko, The Salton Sea, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Bright Young Things, Amelie, The Hole, dot the i, Separate Lies, The Ice Storm, Matchstick Men, Matchpoint, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Barbarian Invasions, Closer, Kill Bill I & II, Spy Games, Stay, The Safety of Objects, V for Vendetta, The Motorcycle Diaries, The Family Stone, Amores Perros, Road, Seamless, Layer Cake, Monsterthursday, The Closet, Casino Royale, Running with Scissors, Stranger than Fiction, Starter for 10, The Queen, The Namesake, Pan's Labyrinth, Pucinni for Beginners, Before the Fall, The Lives of Others, The Host (Gwoemul), Grindhouse, The Valet, After the Wedding, Fay Grim, Paris je t'aime, Once, Cashback, The Ten, Molière, Superbad, Death at a Funeral, 2 Days in Paris, Dans Paris, Across the Universe, The Darjeeling Limited, Lars and the Real Girl, Juno, There Will Be Blood...
Favorite Music Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Wilson Pickett, Sam Cooke, The Temptations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Mamas & the Papas, Bob Seger, Steve Miller Band, The Beatles, The Hollies, Johnny Cash, CCR, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Velvet Underground, Tom Petty, Moldy Peaches, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Cure, Tears for Fears, Echo and The Bunnymen, Bauhaus, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Beastie Boys, The Pixies, U2, Radiohead, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Clash, The Kinks, Smoking Popes, Jesus and Mary Chain, Screeching Weasel, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Mazzy Star, The Fugees, Outkast, Moby, Paul Oakenfold, Alkaline Trio, Stellastarr*, Weezer, The Rentals, Peter Bjorn & John, Beck, Iron & Wine, Queens of the Stone Age, The Strokes, My Chemical Romance, The White Stripes, Placebo, The Decemberists, Bjork, Snow Patrol, Patrick Park, Air, The Postal Service, Wilco, Okkervil River, Modest Mouse, Kasabian, Starsailor, Sufjan Stevens, The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, The Dandy Warhols, The Killers, The Shins, Husker Du, Goldfrapp, Sigur Ros, TV on the Radio, Cold War Kids, My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, New Young Pony Club, Chester French, Rooney, The Nobility, The Knife, The Ponys, Jose Gonzalez...
Favorite Books Watership Down, Harry Potter, A Separate Peace, The Book of Lost Things, The Trap, I Just Want My Pants Back, Working Stiff, books on politics and war...Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World, Vive La Revolution...The Economist, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, GQ...you know, all the stuff a man needs to stay afloat in this world...