George Mason University
Policy Analyst
Activities:
painting, sleeping, reading the wall street journal, reading the ny times, reading in general, being outside in the sun, eating, doing anything that requires shorts and sandals as mandatory attire, reading the economist, hippy sports, yoga, napping, laughing, anything that involves being lazy, fx trading, cooking, breathing, reading the new yorker
Interests:
live music, international political economy, economics in general, economics and law, social justice, being weird and abnormal, drinking beer, being lazy, international finance, austin tx, the internet, human exploration, marketplace on npr, the world on pri, vegetarian food, napping, subways and metros, black and white photography, photojournalism, football, massage, not wearing a suit, ninjas
Favorite Music:
anything on pandora that i program, tom waits, anybody on the garden state soundtrack, patrice pike, my morning jacket, david garza, modest mouse, afghan whigs, the new pornographers, j.mascis, son volt, sebadoh, dinosaur jr., the pogues, emmylou harris, nina simone, sarah vaughn, primus, the postal service, johnny cash, the samples, anything on bloodshot, superchunk, jonathan richman
Favorite Movies:
amilie, swingers, spike and mike's sick and twisted festival of animation, bottle rocket, the films of whit stillman, a little romance, night on earth, anything by jim jarmusch, lost in translation, juno, trainspotting, garden state
Favorite Books:
permenant midnight, the tao of pooh, the white boy shuffle, Ishmael,
Favorite Quotations:
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons."
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The House of the Dead
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geograhy, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
-John Adams, Letter to Abigail Adams (May 12, 1780), May 12, 1780
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson, cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
