The profile. Where I share with you all the fascinating details of my life. Well, I'm a nuclear physicist, I invented microwave popcorn, and I had the idea to take gullible out of the dictionary. I hope you know I'm joking. The thing is, I got this account because I've been craving anonymity, so I'm not going to link to my facebook or myspace, or anything like that. This is where I can become a pen name and a story, and leave the pressing details of the real world behind. Alright, so about me.

BOOKS... the love of my life

what I'm reading now: this profile. No, I regret to say, nothing.

favorite books most recently: Blue Like Jazz, A Poem Traveled Down My Arm, At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, Born Confused, Sweetblood, Einstein's Dreams

favorite authors: W.B. Yeats, Alice Walker, Shakespeare (Of course. It's impossible to ignore the sheer beauty of his words.)

books that I loved as a kid: The Screwtape Letters, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Lost Years of Merlin, The Secret Garden, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the Charlie Bone books, You Are Mine, The Princess Diaries, Gingerbread, the Weetzie Bat books, The Hobbit, Farhenheit 451

books that shaped who I am: Les Miserables (I wish I could say I finished it, but I only got until Gavroche rescues Thenardier from prison. I know the story, though. A bit too well, in fact.) The Lost Years of Merlin, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Born Confused

books I don't like that everyone else does: Harry Potter. Believe me, I've been the target of many evil stares for that one.

authors I know I really should read: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Karl Marx, P.G. Wodehouse

books I desperately want to read: Velvet Elvis, Without You, La Boheme, Thus Spoke Zarathursta

school books I wanted to hate but ended up loving: Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck's a genius.

non-books I rather like: The Village Voice, Dove and Snake, the New York Times

MUSIC... the food of love

I like mostly old-school rock, but I'm not obsessed. I wouldn't be able to pick out a song and tell you the band, album, year.

bands I genuinely love: Hawk Nelson, Simon and Garfunkel, Sixpence: None the Richer

bands I have a slight crush on: Falling Up, Climber

bands I want to get more interested in: Pink Floyd, ReliantK

And I like Broadway. See, I'm quite well-rounded. (And a teeny bit narcissistic. I'm loving this chance to simply ramble on about myself...)

shows I find hysterical and quite amusing: Little Shop of Horrors, Wicked

shows I rather like, but that get very tiring after a while: Rent, Phantom of the Opera

shows I detest with a burning passion: 42nd Street (I was a techie for it. When the tap routines are the soundtrack for your dreams, you know it needs to end soon.)