Name your guiltiest, most lurid pleasure. reading the trash celebrity magazines at the check-out.

If you could have a dinner party and invite any 4 people, dead or alive, who'd be coming? Henry Rollins, Maynard James Keenan, Deepa Meta, David Sedaris

If you are about to enter a room full of total strangers, what song would you want played to accompany your entrance? Something by Eagles of Death Metal

Who are your favorite authors and why? I'll have to get to the why in a conversation. Charles Bukowski, Franz Kafka, Herman Hesse, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Friedman, CORMAC MCCARTHY, Tom Robbins, David Sedaris, Hunter S. Thompson, Margaret Atwood, J.D. Salinger...

What is your most prized possession? my books. of course.

Quote a line from your favorite movie. "I'm going to bury you underground, Eli." but I'm really a crazy film-person. Especially anything by Jodorowsky, Brackhage, Lynch, Kubrick, Svakmajer, Kurosawa, Korine.

I consider myself an open-minded person, but my deal breakers are Non-animal lovers and religious fanatics

Design your ideal mate: the brain of Henry Rollins and the body of Bukowski (ha. ha. ha.)

Something I said I'd never do but did anyway was Move to TX

The first section I turn to in the Chronicle is Music calender

The quickest way to my heart is To make me laugh til it hurts The quickest way to my bed is invigorating conversation And in the morning, I like my eggs cooked With hot sauce

When I die, I believe I will go Hopefully somewhere resembling an Alex Grey painting.

I wouldn't be who I am if I hadn't gone to college.

I wouldn't sell My cats for a billion dollars.

McCain or Obama

Live Oak or Real Ale

Whole Foods or Wheatsville