Jay

Columbia University, Attended - , Class of 1998, Other

Writer / Smartass

Reading, writing, flicks, photos, music, architecture, food, swimming (real or imagined), theater, romance, danger, pathos

Lolita, Underworld, Murphy, The Intuitionist, The Book of Daniel, Howards End, Atonement, The Subterraneans, Motherless Brooklyn, To the Lighthouse, Moby Dick, Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, Grace Paley, Donald Barthelme, Tobias Wolff

Magnolia, Weird Science, I <heart> Huckabees, Nights of Cabiria, all David Lynch, all Hal Hartley, Fight Club, Laurel Canyon, Go, Dark Crystal, You and Me and Everyone We Know, Annie Hall, Mildred Pierce, The Man Who Wasn't There, Showgirls, Grey Gardens, Safe, Amelie, Terms of Endearment, Kill Bill, Rushmore, The Big Lebowski, Vanya on 42nd Street, Flirting with Disaster, Jackie Brown, Spanglish, Eternal Sunshine

Joni Mitchell, Helio Sequence, J Mascis, Dolly Parton, Swayzak, Steely Dan, Decemberists, Nina Simone, Arcade Fire, Ben Folds, Chet Baker, Radiohead, Sarah Vaughan, Broken Social Scene, Red House Painters, Burt Bacharach, Bjork, Beck, Bloc Party, Suzanne Vega, Anita O'Day, Outkast, Sleater-Kinney, The Roots, Aimee Mann, belle and sebastian, Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, The Smiths, The Sundays...

Big Love, Deadwood, Sopranos, Arrested Development, The Daily Show, Adult Swim

Pisces

I have opinions. I like cheese. I hate tea. I make up stories about people who don't exist. I like dancing when there are twenty other people on the dancefloor, no more, no less. I have what they call catholic taste in music (not the religion, look it up). I'm sensitive to punctuation. I like taking my time getting things done and then berating myself for how long its taken. I sleep on my stomach with one leg up like I'm rockclimbing, but I've never climbed any rocks. I like to get mired in details and forget that there's never enough money or time to do it up right. I'm usually good for a laugh. And cheese. I really do love the cheese.

Joni Mitchell. The emotionally awake. Non-morning people. Fans of gray areas, human idiocy, Weird Science. People who laugh at the world but know that it's serious business. David O. Russell. The stable but not boring. Drinkers who (mostly) know their limits. Smart people who have not accomplished enough. Artists and doctors successful before their time. Loose women. Looser men. People who don't spread themselves too thin. People who don't think that saying, "I don't watch television," makes them sound smart. People who make mix CDs. P.T. Anderson. Someone who can get me into the Gourmet Magazine editorial holiday party at Ruth Reichl's house.