안녕하세요! 나는 안토니입니다. I have been living in Bucheon since August 2016, having moved from Changwon, where I lived since September 2015, and I am originally from New York. During weekdays, I teach precalculus to international school kids. I am looking mainly for friends in the area to spend weekends with, both for fun and to mutually practice language skills.

I'm taken as of Dec. 24, 2016! So friends only, please <3

I feel uncomfortable making requests of people I'm trying to befriend. Just don't feel as if you have to be a certain way to humor or impress me or like you need to detract from what you want to give me what I want. I want to know you, not someone you're pretending to be for my sake.

... That said, if we're going to spend any significant amount of time together, I'd really prefer to be treated like a person with individual tastes, quirks, and thoughts, and not as a "foreigner."

I'm only really able to help with English. I know enough Italian to be vaguely conversational, but not enough to teach it. I'd love to learn more Korean while I'm here.

Reading, writing prose & poetry (formerly), cooking, math puzzles, strategy games, hiking, nature, practicing Korean, astronomy, bad jokes

My collection spans the following genres: ambient, baroque, classical, chillout, Celtic, Indian classical, progressive rock, dark cabaret, jazz, industrial, thrash, grunge, punk, pop-punk, opera, enka, k-pop, new age, R&B, soul, renaissance, romantic, folk, blues, classic rock, symphonic metal, space, contemporary pop, pirate metal (yes, this is a thing, and yes, it's what it sounds like), shoegaze, indie rock, baroque pop, power metal, trance, dream trance, OST, j-pop, hip-hop, reggae, funk, rap-rock, modern classical, impressionist, comedy, madrigals, and ancient Greek.

Favorites (not necessarily the same as "objectively best"): Pan's Labyrinth, Inception, Sense & Sensibility, Cloud Atlas, Ex Machina, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Crash, The Sound of Music, Slumdog Millionaire, Ida, Labyrinth, Hero, Doubt, Life is Beautiful, The Artist, 2001, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Boyhood, Edward Scissorhands, Loving Vincent, Your Name, Lala Land, Lost in Translation.

Schindler's List is objectively the best movie ever, but I cannot rank it as a favorite for so. many. reasons.

IRIS, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, House, W

Favorite Authors: Baudelaire, Stephen King, Jane Austen, Umberto Eco, Kurt Vonnegut, the Brontes, Jung Chang, Martin Page, Isaac Asimov, Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, J.D. Salinger, T.S. Eliot, William Wordsworth

"There was a man with four arms." "Where was he from?" "... Nepal."
"You don't need a reason to help people."
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""
"You know, I've always considered women to be people."
"Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them."
"You know what's really cute? Not having ears." "Why?" "It's gwi-eobda."
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."