Friends, Activity Partners

Jul 2003

Los Angeles

Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Impact Theatre, American Conservatory Theater

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Art Director/Writer

theater, literature, writing, movies, cooking, poker, gardening, hiking

Invisible Man (Ellison), Angle of Repose, Possession, Ceremony, 100 Years of Solitude, House on Mango Street, Teaching to Transgress, Wuthering Heights, Fast Food Nation, Get Shorty

My Favorite Year, Magnolia, The Graduate, Get Shorty, Out of Sight, The Blues Brothers, Annie Hall, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Jurassic Park, When Harry Met Sally, The Limey, Best in Show, The Natural

Lloyd Cole, Jason Falkner, Pat Metheny, John Coltrane, Egberto Gismonti, Branford Marsalis, Ben Folds, Tori Amos, Fastball, Naftule's Dream, kd lang, Lyle Lovett, Joe Jackson, Jessica Williams, Joshua Redman, more

Scrubs, West Wing, CSI, Lost, WSOP

Capricorn

I am a jack of all trades, and as a result I know a little about a lot of things rather than a lot about a few things. People who know a lot about one or two things are pretty smart, but the smartest people I know understand the connections between disparate subjects. I'd like to be more like the smartest people I know.

For the most part, I don't respect borders, but boundaries are another thing. I believe that the best fiction contains elements of nonfiction, and vice versa. I also believe the best comedy contains elements of tragedy, and vice versa.

I have a deep love of language and syntax; a well-turned semicolon is, to me, a thing of beauty.

I live by a few rules:

• no asky no gety (and its corollary, too much asky no gety);
  
• don't ask questions you're not prepared to hear the wrong answer to; and
  
• most foods can be improved with one of the following: chocolate, barbecue sauce, or hoisin sauce (but not more than one of those at a time)

People who see the connections between things. Local people who want to play poker regularly. Especially local poker-playing connection-seers.