CURRENT MISSION

Live, Learn, and Love

ABOUT ME

I'm a big friendly teddy bear. I try to not take myself or life too seriously. I can be funny sometimes. Trying to overcome anxieties to better enjoy life.

PHILOSOPHY

The more we care about each other and less about ourselves the happier we'll be

Interests

Film, comedy, podcasts, sustainability, vegetarian/vegan cooking, books, satire, exploring the out of doors, basketball, football, soccer, Russian/Ukrainian culture

• culture
• books
• performing arts
• cooking
• vegetarian
• vegan
• podcasts
• basketball
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Annie Hall, Children of Men, Rushmore, Hot Fuzz, Reservoir Dogs, Beginners, Army of Darkness, Star Wars, Amelie, Oldboy, Mean Streets, Memento, Everything is Illuminated, My Perestroika, In the Loop, Four Lions, Tree of Life

TV: Extras, Spaced, Black Books, Parks and Rec, Community, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Human Giant

Podcasts: WTF with Marc Maron, Nerdist, This American Life, Radiolab, Mormon Matters, Mormon Stories, The Moth, Doug Loves Movies, Sklarboro Country, Comedy Bang Bang

Music: The Darkness, LCD Soundsystem, Das Racist, Vampire Weekend, Locksley, Gogol Bordello, Queen, Rush, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Colin Hay, The Strokes, David Bowie, Seu Jorge

Books: Master and Margarita, A Moveable Feast, Candyfreak, The Dark Tower Series, Of Mice and Men, Stranger than Fiction, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Watchmen, The Walking Dead, World War Z, The Stranger

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting married to my beautiful wife Rachel and seeing Paul McCartney perform, both were incredible but for very different reasons.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Jamaica, Mexico, Netherlands, Ukraine, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine, United States