I'm a soldier and a poet, but I'm a dancer at best.

I enjoy learning new things and people-watching and being touched on the back of the neck.
I watch incredibly stupid reality television.
I have picnics in graveyards and dance parties in other people's basements.

I talk to strangers and I analyze everyone I meet to try and figure out what makes them tick.
I think everyone has a story, and usually I want to hear it.
I'd rather talk to people who'll disagree with me than those who agree only to be polite.
I can enjoy myself hanging out with just about everybody, but that doesn't mean I like a lot of people.
Because I don't.
Most people bug me.

alphabetizing, apple-picking, beach bonfires, camping, the Cape, dudes in v-necks, Edward Gorey, fall foliage, flannel, Indian food, the internet, kneesocks, McSweeney's, the Neofuturists, peoplewatching, picnics in graveyards, postmodernism, public transportation, the Red Sox, Russian, sarcasm, snowball fights, the Super 88, swingsets, tap dancing, trampolines, vitaminwater.

Air, Alkaline Trio, As Tall As Lions, Blood Brothers, Bob Dylan, Brand New, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Christina Aguilera, Circa Survive, Clipse, Coconut Records, Damien Rice, Death Cab For Cutie, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Desaparecidos, Do Make Say Think, Emanuel, Explosions in the Sky, The Format, Freezepop, Gatsbys American Dream, The Get Up Kids, Girl Talk, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Guster, Halloween Alaska, He Is Legend, Head Automatica, Iron & Wine, Jimmy Eat World, Justice, Kevin Devine, The Knife, The Kooks, Les Sans Culottes, Lola Ray, Manchester Orchestra, The Matches, Matt and Kim, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Men Women & Children, Midtown, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, Nada Surf, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Drake, Oasis, Of Montreal, Owen, Patrick Wolf, The Perishers, The Pixies, The Postal Service, The Receiving End of Sirens, Saves the Day, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Sondre Lerche, Stars, Straylight Run, Sufjan Stevens, This Will Destroy You, The Thrills, Violent Femmes, The Weakerthans, Weezer, Wilco, Young Love.

Almost Famous, Blow, The Breakfast Club, Celebrity, Cruel Intentions, The Dark Crystal, Donnie Darko, East West, Edward Scissorhands, Elephant, Empire Records, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fern Gully, Garden State, Ghost World, High Fidelity, Snakes on a Plane, The Libertine, Lost in Translation, The Mists of Avalon, The Neverending Story, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Run Lola Run, Rushmore, Snakes on a Plane, The Virgin Suicides, The Wizard of Oz.

The Hills

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Amphigorey, Atlas Shrugged, The Bell Jar, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, Catcher in the Rye, The Crying of Lot 49, Dangerous Angels, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, The Golden Key, The Great Gatsby, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, The Highest Tide, House of Leaves, In Cold Blood, Killing Neptune's Daughter, Less Than Zero, The Little Prince, Lolita, The Losers' Club, Mother Night, Nothing Feels Good, The Official Preppy Handbook, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Pale Fire, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Songbook, Thumbsucker, The Vice Guide to Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll