LOCATION
42°11'38"N 71°45'38"W

HOMETOWN
I'm a born and bred eastern New Englandah.

OCCUPATION
Professional embarrassment.

FAVORITE MUSIC
I really don't listen to a lot of music, but one or two of my favorites are: The Afghan Whigs, John Bush-era Anthrax, Bad Religion, The Beatles, Bob Mould, The Cure, Dead Can Dance, Dread Zeppelin, Elliott Smith, Elvis Presley, Eric Matthews, anything and everything Mike Patton touches, Gomez, Grant Lee Buffalo / Grant Lee Phillips, Grant Hart, Husker Du, Iron Maiden, Johnny Cash, King's X, Kristin Hersh, The Mars Volta, Matthew Sweet, Monster Magnet, Murder By Death, Neko Case, Nick Cave, Phish, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Queens Of The Stone Age, Richard Thompson, Rush, Ryan Adams, Sleater-Kinney, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Tool, The Twilight Singers, Urge Overkill, The White Stripes, Wilco. Oh, and Tom Jones.

FAVORITE MOVIES
Eh... not a big movie watcher. But a couple that I dig are Kubrick stuff, Paul Thomas Anderson stuff, Wes Anderson stuff, Coen Brothers stuff, Quentin Tarantino stuff, American Beauty, Bubba Ho-Tep, Caddyshack, Dazed and Confused, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, The Graduate, Harold and Maude, Memento, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pan's Labyrinth, The Professional, Rear Window, Shakespeare in Love, Slap Shot, Snatch, Some Like It Hot, The Station Agent, Swingers, This is Spinal Tap, True Romance, Unbreakable, The Usual Suspects.

FAVORITE GAME
Hungry Hungry Hippos

FAVORITE AUTHORS/BOOKS
I really don't have a ton of time to read, considering all of the music I don't listen to and the movies I don't watch (to say nothing of the marbles I get my hippos to eat), but when I do, I like to read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams), No Exit (Sartre), Macbeth (duh), 1984 (Orwell), Animal Farm (Orwell), Anthem (Rand), The Fountainhead (Rand), Griffin and Sabine (Bantock), James Lileks stuff, In Me Own Words: The Autobiography of Bigfoot, Our Band Could Be Your Life (Azerrad), Everything I'm Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale (Jen Trynin).

FAVORITE TV
Red Sox baseball, My Name Is Earl, The Office, 30 Rock, The 4400, The Dead Zone, The X-Files, House, Good Eats, Dinner:Impossible, Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, Heroes.

ADDITIONAL TIDBITS
I like to cook, brew beer, and make wine. Big sports fan (Red Sox baseball, Patriots football, Celtics basketball, Red Wings hockey, and UNC Tar Heel college hoops). And I can recite all 50 states in alphabetical order in about 13 seconds. Howsabout that, Hasselhoff?

CURRENT RAVES
Cooking on the grill, Kevin Garnett in Celtic green, sleeping, Mazzy Star's "Into Dust," Kate Beckinsale, Marc Ford's guitar playing, handlebar mustaches and rockabilly haircuts, chicken wings and onion rings, learning new songs to play at open mics, the ceiling fan in my living room, and my wonderful wife Christine (now, hopefully, she'll forgive me for the subtle inclusion of Beckinsale and be happy that her inclusion on this list bumped Ali Larter from it).