Gender	Male
Industry	Government
Location	Illinois, United States
Introduction	what can i say? i am alive.
Interests	humor and drama; politics and pop culture; "films" and "movies"; music and silence; social criticism and literary criticism; hot and cold cereal; video games and book clubs; playing and watching sports; cooking and ordering food; beer and wine
Favorite movies	how about directors? coen brothers films, wachowski brothers films, farrelly brothers films, marx brothers films...antonioni, scorsese, altman, kubrick, allen, wilder, lynch, almodovar, anderson (as in wes), anderson (as in paul thomas), coppola (as in francis ford), tarantino, hitchcock, chaplin, payne, bergman, burton, cuaron, nolan, aronofsky, lumet, bergman
Favorite music	my tastes change but some staples are:ac/dc; andrew bird; modest mouse; beck; belle & sebastian; beastie boys; bruce springsteen; built to spill; iron and wine; johnny cash; john coltrane; the doors; antonio carlos jobim; thelonious monk; neutral milk hotel; pearl jam; apples in stereo; red hot chili peppers; rush; spoon; the flaming lips; the walkmen; the white stripes; the strokes; the beatles; tv on the radio; weezer; woody guthrie; the who; zero 7
Favorite books	anything by these authors: tom robbins, pierre bourdieu, Al Franken, Dave Eggers, Stephen Chobsky, Chuck Palahniuk, Chuck Klosterman, Nick Hornby, Roald Dahl, Suzanne Collins, Shel Silverstein, Stephen King, Studs Terkel, Mark Twain, JK Rowling, Jonathan Safran Foer, Kurt Vonnegut, Sarah Vowell

You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?

The musical will be about my failures in the classroom and the bedroom. Once people know that I'm both stupid and impotent, I'm sure I can stay humble.