Jonathan Adler

University of Melbourne

University of Pennsylvania, Attended - , Class of , Other

Student now, a lawyer in my former life.

Wharton clubs - Wine, Wharthogs Rugby, Tennis, Squash, India, Culinary and, of course, Australia and New Zealand

Wine (both fine and not-so-fine), Australian Rules Football, theatre and stand-up, skiing, foreign affairs, rugby, cooking, finding somewhere in Philly to watch the Australian cricket team thrash allcomers (yes, that includes you, England, this summer Down Under...)

Emergency Sex (my new favourite. Autobiographical story of UN workers in hellholes. Merciless and incredibly sad), Ethan Frome, Lolita, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch, Darkness at Noon, The Heart of Darkness, 1984, Moneyball (my baseball primer here in the US), Madame Bovary, The Grapes of Wrath, The Prince, The Inner Game of Tennis, anything to do with cricket or Australian football - the list goes on

When Harry Met Sally, Chinatown, The Princess Bride, Blue Velvet, Heat, The Game, Trading Places (especially now that I'm in Philly), Taxi Driver, Manhatten, Annie Hall, Chasing Amy, Muriel's Wedding, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (classic Aussie "larrikan" film), plus so many more

The Smiths, David Bowie, Suede, Keane, The Cure, Doves, Oasis, Hoodoo Gurus (Aussies), The Beatles, The Stone Roses, The Byrds, The Beach Boys, Nick Drake, Simon and Garfunkel, The Pet Shop Boys, Elastica, Bob Dylan, Blur, Pulp, Radiohead, INXS, Kate Bush, Miles Davis, Blondie, Nirvana, REM, US, The Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order, Supergrass, Franz Ferdinand, Ash, Morrissey, Primal Scream, Depeche Mode, The Happy Mondays, INXS, Midnight Oil, Snow Patrol (saw recently in Boston - was "wicked" awesome, so to speak....) - and more

Twin Peaks, Blackadder, The West Wing, Seinfeld, Sex and The City, The X-Files, The Office (UK), Life Support (an Aussie satire) - and many others, but little time to watch telly these days...

Hmm...where to start? I'm an Aussie, so insert your favourite stereotypes - so long as they revolve around having a cute accent, being down-to-earth and loving to watch and play sport, rather than being suntanned, traipsing the world as a backpacker or wrestling deadly crocodiles (okay, I admit to doing a bit of the last. But only on long weekends).

More specifically, I'm around 5'10", 78 kilos and currently a 2nd year student at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, PA, who is intending to live in New York for the foreseeable future after graduation next year. What am I like? Well, until you meet me, you'll have to take my word for it that I am hilariously funny and sharp as a tack ;)

What else? No pets, no ex-wives, no children. I am fortunate enough to have two wonderful, intelligent and super-nice younger sisters, Jen and Caroline, though it doesn't seem to have made me any wiser about the mysteries of women. Jen's a consultant in New York, with her fiancee, and Caroline's a lawyer in Melbourne, though her shift to Paris as a total Francophile cannot be far away.

That's about it - you'll have to meet me to find out more. I am pretty excited about the set of new and fun things I plan to take on this year before I graduate and return to the real, working world - swing and salsa dancing, ice hockey, learning to play the guitar and speaking a new foreign language (probably Spanish). Depending on how everything goes, I might play some rugby, drink some wine and even attend some classes in between all this...

For a girl...a woman who is sharp, witty, pretty, talkative and just generally a total delight. A woman who likes to look gorgeous, but whose vanity extends only as far as refusing to wear tracksuit pants as casual wear. A woman who loves a drink (or three) but isn't a fan of smoking. A woman who loves to while away an afternoon lazing in the park, strolling through a gallery or downing glass after glass of wine (or cup after cup of expresso). I find glasses, weirdly, curiously attractive, and while race isn't important, I seem to have a particular weakness for dark-skinned beauties (particularly desis)... Finally, of course I love American girls - that cute accent thing cuts both ways, you know (after all, you're foreign to ME)

As for friends, pretty much anybody who likes a drink and a laugh is cool with me...Most of my activities are pretty blokey, so more female friends would be nice