bands:

1. Radu Lupu, Paganini, Prokofiev, Liszt
2. Sviatoslav T. Richter, Chopin, Bach, Busoni
3. Glenn Gould, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich
4. Van Cliburn, Friedrich Gulda
5. Manitas De Plata
6. Paco Pena
7. Velvet Underground
8. Valery Kuleshov, a fucking god!
9. Lou Reed
10. Bob Dylan

films:

1. Cure (K. Kurosawa)
2. Charisma (K. Kurosawa)
3. Angel Guts: Nami, Red Classroom
4. Doppleganger (K.Kurosawa)
5. Irreversible, I Stand Alone
6. Okraina, Brat, Brat 2, Zhmurki, Pro urodov i lyudej, Gruz 200
7. The Piano Teacher
8. Anything by Satoshi Kon
9. Suicide Club
10. Tetsuo: the Iron Man

books:

1. Thomas Bernhard, Goethe, Schiller, Grass, Boll, Jelinek, Durrenmatt
2. A Hero of Our Time by Lermontov
3. Venus in Furs (Sacher-Masoch)
4. Il Principe by Nicolo Machiavelli
5. Ryu Murakami
6. Zoshchenko, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Pasternak, Voinovich, Varlam Shalamov, Yuri Olesha, Solzhenitsyn, Bely, Sinyavsky, Tolstoy, Dostoevski, Kropotkin, Vladimov
7. James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo
8. Sayonara, Gangsters! (Gen'ichiro Takahashi)
9. Hitomi Kanehara
10. Michel Foucault

tv shows:

1. House MD
2. Dexter
3. Meerkat Manor, come'on, I am a sociobiologist
4. Generally though, I don't have much
5. time for television. When House marathons
6. are on I can usually squeeze them in
7. but otherwise I'm relegated to watching
8. both t.v. and movies late at night between semesters.

Artists:

1. Brice Marden
2. Franz Kline
3. Robert Rauschenberg
4. Picasso
5. Appollinaire
6. Jacob van Ruizdael
7. Rembrandt
8. Vincent Van Gogh
9. Jan Vermeer
10. Nick Thompson

into: Caffeine, studying, hiking, tattoos, ants, leks, social evolution, sociobiology, ethology, evolutionary genetics, theoretical population genetics, weird Postmodern novels, buff S&M babes.

not into: The hoarse, coarse screeches of the hoi polloi. Plato believed democracy was fundamentally flawed because it cuts everyone down to the same size (like wheat stalks) without having any good reason in its favor that all people should want to be equal. Can you say: "One Putin to rule them all?"

makes me happy: A good classical record, like a genuine, vinyl Van Cliburn LP, and a big ol' mug of chai or a cappuccino. A good Japanese novel, writing research articles, solving really hard math problems.

makes me sad: Proletarian trolls, people with poor taste, bad scientists, philosophers who think people matter.

hobbies: Writing biology articles, writing biomath articles, playing with fire ants & carpenter ants, drinking cappuccinos.

5 things i can't live without: Caffeine, fire ants, hot geek girls, Postmodern novels, f#@&*ed-up Japanese films, f*&@#$-up French films, rough a&$ sex.

vices: Reading novels when I should be writing my mathematical biology thesis, writing poems, making espresso, a good round of fighting chess, Belgian triple-fermented beers, Japanese owl's nest-filtered beer.

thoughts on sg: I love it

i spend most of my free time: What free time? I'm a full-time grad. student.

occupation: Mathematical biologist/theoretical biologist, marauding caffeine freak, Postmodern poet and member of the Gentry.

current crush: No one in particular; trying to get some more articles published, and devise a mathematical theory of biological competition.

stats: 5'9", thin but not exceedingly so, though more so than the average man of my height, blue-green eyes, short hair, beard. "This is Math dawg, you gots to have a beard or NO one will take your seriously"-- said an older PhD student to me my first semester

body mods: Tattoo of baby Bulldog ant (Myrmecia desertorum) on left forearm. More to come!

heroes: George Gordon, Lord Byron; John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester; William D. Hamilton; Alexander Grothendieck; Robert Trivers.

gets me hot: An ex of mine once said: "There's two ways all girls like it: rough or ultra-rough."

favorite position: Too many to choose from.

fantasy: A nice whipping after a night of arguing about the mysteries of theoretical biology.

sign: Astrology, who cares?

most humbling moment: One day I discovered that some people are as smart as me. Not many, but still it is disturbing to run into them on those extremely rare occasions.

i lost my virginity: to a Japanese S&M geek.

CIGARETTES: Nope

MY DIET: Omnivore

ALCOHOL: I am a complete drunkard

MY DRUG USE: Drug Free

I AM LOOKING FOR: a woman

MY KINK FACTOR: I'll try anything once, especially if you beg for it.

MY POLITICS: Milquetoast Centrist

POT: Nope

MY STATUS: single

MY IDEA OF A GOOD TIME: When I go out, ANYTHING can happen.

I WANT: Romance, Booty, Friendship

MY PIGEONHOLES: Crafty, Arty, Tattooed, Designwank, Fashionista, Retro, Hippy, Bookworm, Geek, Fetish, Fuck you, I defy categories