Neil Watson

Polk Youth Correctional Facility-Butner, NC (not as an inmate)

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Master's Degree

technical writer, but I prefer my preoccupations

movies, history, art, literature, writing, college sports, guys, cook outs, state fairs, roller coasters, travel, architecture, mountains, trees, beaches, google, my beagle, hiking, camping, the beach, lollygagging, trying new things, procrastinating, masturbating, taking pictures

What I have going right now: Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Some favorites: Winnie the Pooh (never forget your first love), To the Lighthouse, The Sun Also Rises, The Shining, Leaves of Grass, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Sound and the Fury, The Wind in the Willows, A Death in the Family, Lord of the Rings, The Passion, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay, Hundred Years of Solitude, Beloved, Naked, Dream Boy, Running With Scissors, The Giving Tree, Four Quartets, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Most recently... No Country for Old Men, Letters from Iwo Jima; some other favorites... Casablanca, Dr. Strangelove, Godfather 1 & 2; original Star Wars and Raiders, Lost in Translation, The LOTR trilogy, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Goodfellas, Elizabeth, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Dead Poets Society, Stand By Me, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Airplane!, Pulp Fiction, Garden State, My Own Private Idaho, Six Degrees of Separation, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Shins, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Cake, Johnny Cash, Grandaddy, Ben Folds, Ryan Adams, New Pornographers, Aimee Mann, Flaming Lips, Magnetic Fields, Scissor Sisters, Pat Benatar, New Order, Joy Division, The Bee Gees, Queen, Paul Simon, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, cheesy disco, any 80s band with bizarre New Wave hairdos

30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Ugly Betty, The Office, Lost, Friday Night Lights, NCAA Tourney Selection Show, Unbeatable Banzuke (!)

Laid back, friendly once I get to know you but shy at first. Sometimes have a tendency to over think things. Like to smile and laugh, something of an idealist, unpretentious. Special appreciation for good southern cooking, grilling, summer, being near the ocean, and geriatric, loving beagles.

I'm wary of these prescriptions now. I'm open to meeting all kinds of people; I suspect that in my lifetime I'm only going to love a select few. And if one of that few ever loves me back, then I'll be one of the lucky ones.

Other than all that romance jazz, laid-back, intelligent and friendly people who take important things seriously, themselves not quite so seriously, and don't sweat the small stuff.