Jake

About me

Gender Male
Location Washington, D.C., United States
Introduction Young lobbyist working in DC. I talk loudly and a lot and I obsess over stupid crap.
Interests Movies, comedy in all forms, cooking & eating, basketball, football, pro wrestling, acting, great books, politics
Favorite Movies All the Monty Python films, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Malcolm X, Citizen Kane, Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, the Big Sleep, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Jungle Fever, Dr. Strangelove, Spinal Tap, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dead Man Walking, Clerks, The Shining, too many others to list.
Favorite Music Springsteen, Dylan, Stones, the Band, the Clash, the Velvet Underground, Husker Du, Bob Mould, the Pixies, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Wu-Tang, Public Enemy, Big L, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, lots of other hip-hop, '50s rock 'n' roll
Favorite Books Psychotic Reactions and Carbuerator Dung (Lester Bangs), The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene), The End of the Affair (Greene again), The Quiet American (yep), The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison), Beloved (Morrison), The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner), As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs), Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford), Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad), The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

If you were a wrestler, what would be your finishing move?

Either Chris Benoit's Crippler Crossface or Shawn Michaels's Sweet Chin Music.