* I grew up in a small town from which I have spent my entire adult life escaping.
* My favorite novel is War and Peace. Some passages can still bring me to tears.
* I have a good-size jazz and classical CD collection, but my dirty shameful secret listening pleasure is disco music from the '70's.
* My academic career was abysmal. My grades would be stellar one semester and disastrous the next. One semester I had an A,B,C,D and F. Another semester I had three A's and three F's. I never did quite manage to get my degree.
* I work in the financial industry. I enjoy my current job but,like Julien Sorel in Stendhal's The Red and the Black, I probably chose a vocation for which I am not really suited. For example, I hate to haggle.
* I love to eat and can appreciate everything from a Chicago hot dog to wild mushroom risotto. It is by a great act of will that I am still thin.
* The smell of Calvin Klein's Obsession still turns my head. When I was a high school senior, I hooked up with a hot college girl who wore it. You don't smell it much anymore....
* I love scotch. Smokey, peaty Islay scotch especially. My favorite is Laphroaig.
* I think that American society places way too much importance on sports. However, I'm a Cub fan and I go nuts for the Bears during football season so I may be part of the problem there.
* I enjoy hating Los Angeles, but I have a great time whenever I'm there. I secretly suspect that if I moved there, I'd fall in love with it. This makes me hate it even more.
* I am a Shakespeare fanatic.
* I am 5'8 1/2 with brown eyes and brown (some gray in there now) hair. I am handsome, but in an effete, full-lipped Shelley/Byron kinda way. I always wanted to have the hardened masculine visage of a Bruce Willis or Clint Eastwood.
* When I'm home alone, I sing along to my ipod or dance in a really bizarre manner.
* My political views have shifted to the left as I've gotten older.
* I love film but most new movies suck. The banality of our popular culture can be seen in our penchant for "happy" endings. The movie Sideways almost got it right. The tacked on ending was a cop-out.
* I am training for my third marathon, but I am about as unathletic as you can get. I disappear whenever volleyballs come out. In school, I wasn't chosen dead-last for teams but I was consistently in the bottom fourth.
* I lost my virginity at 17. My first otherwise sexual experience with a girl took place two years prior. A friend of mine talked a girl (who was really into him) into making out with me. Then we both took turns making out with her. Until my dad came downstairs and drove her home.
* Most of my old girlfriends are now lawyers. One is a poet. We hooked up again when her book tour passed through Chicago. She's into women now.
* A girl will totally have my attention if she mentions one of the following: Miles Davis, Andrei Tarkovski, Ingmar Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Bill Evans, Ryszard Kapuscinski, German Expressionism or oral sex.
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8 comments:
Loved this post..i like to know the man behind the blog and the interesting little quirks that u have...really enjoyable to read..
and i think its safe to say that when were at home alone, we all sing and dance to our ipods..especially in the shower:D
I hope you don't sing and dance to your iPod in the shower! It's a good way to get electrocuted!
:D
i loved reading this too :)
d.l.s., You for got to mention how you were arrested for indcent exposure multilpe times which is why you have spent your entire adult life trying to escape from that small town.
llkull3, you forgot to mention how you supplemented your paper route money by working the glory hole in the men's room in the movie theater.
...a job I got because it was vacated by you after you moved up to be the star of HotGhettoMess.com
Yes, llkull3, the job was vacated by me and bequeathed to you. However, you got it wrong. Very, very wrong. You see, I was always on the OTHER side of the glory hole....
If you were on the OTHER side of the hole then why were you faced the wrong way?
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