Snowboarding Addict, Aspiring Writer, News Junkie, Phish Head, Dog Person, Flippant, Observant, Cynical and Autodidactic...

"It was the tension between these two poles-a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other-that kept me going."

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

The Wire, Lost, Entourage, The Office, 30 Rock, My Name is Earl, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Weeds, The Riches, CSPAN 1 2 &; 3, Washington Journal, Real Time, Real Sports, Sportscenter, Around the Horn, The Mclaughlin Group, Charlie Rose, Tavis Smiley, The Newshour w/ Jim Leherer, BBC Worldnews, Washington Week, Now, Bill Moyers, Frontline, Extras, Family Guy, Planet Earth, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Meet the Press, The History Channel, The Discovery Channels, The Sundance Channel, The Weather Channel, PBS, College Basketball, College Football...

Kubrick, Welles, Tarantino, Hitchcock, Stone, Peckinpah, Lynch, Fuller, Scorcese, Allen...(Lately)Dark Knight, Lars and the Real Girl, Transsiberian, Hearts of Darkness, Angels in America, The Source, My Architect: A Son's Journey, The Visitor, Snow Angels, Days of Heaven, Cross of Iron, Shine a Light, The Dead Girl, Super High Me, 4months 3 weeks and 2 Days, The Bank Job, In Bruges, The Lives of Others, Juno, End of the Century:The Ramones, Apocalypto, 11th Hour, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Once, Talk to Me. The Savages, There Will be Blood, American Gangster, Atonement, Sweeney Todd, Rescue Dawn, Resurrecting the Champ, 300, Margot at the Wedding, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Away From Her, No Country for Old Men, King of Kong, Zodiac, The Darjeeling Limited, The Kingdom, Ratatouille, Lines, Eastern Promises, Superbad, Seraphim Falls, Sicko, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Pans Labyrinth, Cocaine Cowboys, Children of Men, US vs. John Lennon, The Good German, The Departed, Borat, Babel, Stranger than Fiction, Who Killed the Electric Car, The Prestige, The Queen, Blood Diamond, Notes on a Scandal, Last King of Scotland, Fuck, The Proposition, An Inconvenient Truth, F for Fake, A Prarie Home Companion, The Agronomist, Elevator to the Gallows, Dont' Come Knocking, Unknown White Male, V for Vendetta, Manderlay, Game 6, Elizabethtown, No Direction Home, Syriana, Matchpoint, The War Within, The New World, Munich, Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room, Shopgirl, Downfall, The Squid and the Whale, Stone Reader, First Descent, Good Night and Good Luck, A History of Violence, Crush, Junebug, Unforgivable Blackness, Grizzly Man, Touching the Void...

Hunter S. Thompson, John Irving, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ayn Rand, Cormac McCarthy, Chuck Palahniuk, J.D. Salinger, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Heinlin, Joseph Conrad...