The Cajun Boy
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | conductor of the times square to grand central shuttle train |
| Location | New York, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Zeitgeist, libertine, trickster, iconoclast, rabble-rouser, provocateur, capricious, idiosyncratic, whimsical, bellwether, luminary, stoic, pensive, aloof, intuitive, curious, perplexing, passionate, lascivious, amorous, sultry, scholar, scribe, thespian, voracious, considerable, impaired, cynical, dreamer, procrastinator, glutton, drunkard, heathen, narcissist, self-loathing, renaissance man. (Professionally, I'm a writer, a former Gawker editor who's also written for Animal New York, Dealbreaker, and Deadspin, among others, and currently writing for Yahoo News. I've also "dabbled" in television. The views expressed here are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer, blah blah blah.) |
| Interests | doing it for the story, easy-cheese, a freshly shorn scrotum and a cool breeze, butters from southpark, ny times obituaries, the union square green market, milk and honey, canoodling, dt/ut coffee shop, boiled crawfish, wings, laughing uncontrolably, dancing like a crazy man, hyperbole, the sunday ny times, the new yorker, the talk of the town, the chattering classes, ambiguous relationships, daydreams of oscar, tony, and pulitzer, rummaging and pilfering, all things chocolate, tortilla flats margaritas, corner bistro burgers, mister softee chocolate shakes, meeting someone new each day, my cat leia, walking over the brooklyn bridge during the summer, rosario's pizza on orchard st, blowing past big crowds at velvet ropes, running on the river at night, the museum of natural history, making people think, asking questions, fried dumplings from the dumpling house on eldridge, having people think i'm "a little off", splenda, mixing my cocoa and fruity pebbles, chipotle burritos, foreign accents, velveeta cheese, bacon, tony chachere's, snapple, guiness on tap, stella, BEER, grey goose and cranberry, whole milk, in and out burgers, the elderly, ethnic food, boudreaux and thibodaux jokes, half and half, the apple store, tall brunettes and short blondes, game 7, seeing bond give the villain a kiss, tshirts, sneakers, dvr, fried chicken, cherry cola, slim jims, 711 and circle k coffee, dr. brown's black cherry soda, "we are happy to serve you" cups, laser tag, trader joes, the roller rink on saturdays in central park, the onion, rice pudding, making analogies, quesadillas, two-buck-chuck, funky hats, pillow talk, rooftop parties, live music, connecting, conversations ranging from religion to bowel movements, shooting pool in dive bars, air guitar, kareoke bars, late night walks along central park south, sundresses blowing in the wind, girls who don't wear makeup, iced tea, mcgriddles, bacon/egg/cheese on a croissant, greek yogurt... |
| Favorite Movies | true romance(#1 all-time), la dolce vita, fall, 8 1/2, life of brian, monty python and the holy grail, barton fink, ed wood, flirting with disaster, the big lebowski, fargo, windy city heat, office space, vanilla sky, old boy, zoolander, belizaire the cajun, harold and maude, the royal tennenbaums, closer, manhattan, taxi driver, breakfast at tiffanys, the birds, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the shining, rushmore, hotel rwanda, casablanca, motorcycle diaries, vertigo, the life aquatic, pulp fiction, rear window, intolerable cruelty, psycho, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, strangers on a train, team america world police, bridges of madison county, the notebook, good will hunting, the graduate, old school, dumb and dumber, lost in translation, there's something about mary, reservoir dogs, napolean dynamite, garden state, o brother where art thou, igby goes down, just about any bond flick not staring timothy dalton or george lazenby, before sunrise/sunset, e tu mama tambien, sex and lucia, big fish, happy endings, magnolia, bad education, talk to her, i heart huckabee's, the station agent, heat, miller's crossing, state and main, the aristocrats, city of god, 25th hour, march of the penguins, the constant gardener, the cooler, king kong, brokeback mountain, the squid and the whale, good night and good luck, the grizzly man, capote, matchpoint, little miss sunshine, lucky number slevin, the inside man, borat, the departed, little children... |
| Favorite Music | better than ezra, kent, yaz, the killers, bb king, lifehouse, snow patrol, my chemical romance, vertical horizon, the libertines, matt ryczek, pete schmidt, louis armstrong, game, fitty, al b. sure, wayne toups, dana dane, abandoned pools, beegees, damien rice, yaz, sade, flaming lips, dj tiesto, the cure, the shins, colin hay, bonnie somerville, howie day, elliot smith, david garza, nelly furtado, ella fitzgerald, new edition, bell biv devoe, smashing pumpkins, coldplay, ll cool j., the smiths, eminem, mozart, de la soul, coldplay, billy corgan, led zeppelin, rush, etta james, lenny kravitz, pearl jam, dishwalla, third eye blind, tracy chapman, sarah mclachlin, nirvana, david gray, cahill, linkin park, REM, new order, barry white, avril lavigne, greenday, candlebox, sade, duran duran, alice in chains, brian mcknight, oasis, justin timberlake, taking back sunday, depeche mode, janes addiction, dido, frou frou, moby, allison krauss, foo fighters, 311, simon and garfunkle, vast, rosie thomas, new order, jessie baylin, panic at the disco, she wants revenge, stereophonics, kill hannah, lostprophets, say anything, under the influence of giants, wheat, the weepies, mew |
| Favorite Books | a confederacy of dunces(FUNNIEST THING YOU'LL EVER READ), demian, a connecticut yankee in king arthur's court, my dark places, assasination vacation, how to lose friends and alienate people, don't get too comfortable, me talk pretty someday, on the road, the corrections, the alchemist, bright lights big city, cad, grapes of wrath, don quixote, breakfast of champions, heart of darkness, catch 22, the old man and the sea, the adventures of tom sawyer, huckleberry finn, the game, tell no one, the great deluge, fear and loathing in las vegas, in cold blood |