NAME: Marlo

DOB: August 29th, 1980

CURRENT RESIDENCE: An East Van (Mount Pleasant) basement suite with cat, Zuul.

CHARACTERISTICS: spastic, intellectual, arty, rather antisocial, obsessive, cynical, articulate.

WEAKNESSES: addicted to caffeine, subject to bouts of depression and selfishness, does not fare well at parties.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: likes both the ladies and the mens.

PRIMARY INTERESTS:
reading, books, words, linguistics, and languages (languages partially learned: French, Latin, Mandarin; languages I want to learn: Elvish, Japanese, German, or really anything else)
music (esp. thrash punk, avant garde, indie rock, metal, but a wide variety of other things as well)
bicycles
RPGs and gaming
artsy stuff
caffeine
healthy vegan-type food
various nerdy pursuits (comics, fanfiction, Adult Swim, Tolkien, Buffy, Xena, Scrabble, elves and elvish)
travelling

OCCUPATION: office drone ("receptionist")

FAVORITES WORTH NOTING (n.b. these are in constant flux):
caffeinated beverage: earl grey tea
books: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, Neuromancer by William Gibson, The World According to Garp by John Irving, Time's Arrow by Martin Amis, Red Azalea by Anchee Min
music: this changes far too often for me to properly articulate. anyway I'm sick of defining myself or being defined by my musical tastes. I like stuff that sounds good, and I'm picky.
movies: also changes fairly often, but I liked Lost In Translation, Spirited Away, His Girl Friday, the Lord of the Rings movies, and Pirates of the Caribbean, all of which I have seen in the past couple of years. Long-standing favorites include This Is Spinal Tap, the Star Wars Trilogy, Mulholland Drive, Dr. Strangelove, Roger & Me, and Do the Right Thing.
tv shows: Twin Peaks, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Clone High, Xena the Warrior Princess, The Joy of Painting
colors: green, red, brown
candy: dark chocolate, nibs
live music venue: The Cobalt

DISLIKES (some of these things to a much greater extent than others):
the right wing, bigots, conservatives, racists, sexists, homophobes
the suburbs
cigarettes, drugs, alcohol (although others are of course welcome to do those things - I just prefer not to)
religion and spirituality
dogs and children
Ayn Rand
patriotism
volleyball
reality TV, talk shows, soap operas, shit-ass sitcoms
snobby scenesters
yuppies
trendy academic bullshit(ters)
mean people
people who do things with blatant disregard/lack of concern for the rest of the population