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In which Bwog Personals returns! And to start us off are two of the Blue and White's eligible editors. All interested parties should contact Bwog via email and we'll provide the $5 for the date. And as always, nominate your friends (or yourself) for a personal by emailing bwgossip@columbia.edu.

GUY FOR GIRL

Name: Paul Barndt
Year: '08
School: CC
Major: Classics and English
Hometown: Houston. TX

Best Book You've Read for Class: I rep pretty hard for all the dead white guys on the front of Butler--I would find it very hard to pick between them. If I handicap myself by taking all the Core stuff out of contention, I'd probably say War and Peace.

Worst Book You've Read for Class: I thought Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides was pretty lame, although I'm sure there's something worse I'm forgetting from one of my freshman survey classes.

Most shameful thing you've ever done to procrastinate: Doing work that was due way later than both the work I should have been doing, and the work I should have been starting after finishing the work I should have been doing.

Beverage of choice: Just as some people have a cup of coffee in the morning, I have a glass of lemon lime Gatorade.

What are your most played songs on iTunes?
Culture Club, Karma Chameleon
Lightning Bolt, Dracula Mountain
Chick Corea, El Bozo
I listen to Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations constantly when studying, so most of those are in the top 50.

What do you wish were your most played songs on iTunes?
Michael Jackson's performance at the 1995 MTV VMAs is one of the most magnificent things ever captured on film--if only it existed in iTunes song form.

Also, there are many songs I listen to quite often, but only on YouTube, whether it's because the video is integral to the song or because I'm too lazy to illegally download it. This list would include Mark Morrison's "Return of the Mack," and many Flight of the Conchords songs.

Favorite Morningside Heights Meal:
probably a cheddar burger at Toast, but late at night, a cheese omelet smothered in Tabasco, fries, and chocolate milkshake at Tom's.

The title of your memoir: This is tough--I've barely started it! But it will be an account of my years in West Africa and is tentatively titled Nigerian Rhapsody.

Dream date, 5 words or fewer: depends on the person dated

Thing you're looking forward to most this year: 12 credits in the spring, or rather, the things I will do the resulting free time.

Thing you're looking forward to least this year: I imagine I'd be terrified of the swim test if I couldn't swim.

GIRL FOR GUY

Name: Maryam
Year: '09
School: CC
Major: English
Hometown: Houston, TX

Best Book You've Read for Class: Manhattan Transfer, John Dos Passos; Traces, Ernst Bloch. It's a tie.

Worst Book You've Read for Class: Probably some terrible first-semester CC reading, long since been blocked from memory.

Most shameful thing you've ever done to procrastinate: Watch Youtube videos of real-live talking dogs with floormates at 2 in the morning.

Beverage of choice: Thai iced tea (in moderation)

What are your most played songs on iTunes?
"Wish You Were Here," Radiohead/Sparklehorse cover
"Coffee & TV," Blur
"Holland," Sufjan Stevens

What do you wish were your most played songs on iTunes?
"Ruby Tuesday," Rolling Stones
"Someone to Watch Over Me," the Chet Baker Quartet
The second movement of Maurice Ravel's Piano Concerto in G - Martha Argerich with the Berlin Philharmonic

Favorite Morningside Heights Meal: Family Combo Special, Rey de la Caridad

The title of your memoir: something along the lines of "It Could Have Been Worse" (definitely with introduction by Bono or some other international rockstar)

Dream date, 5 words or fewer:
Good jazz, Five Guys cheeseburgers

Thing you're looking forward to most this year:
Getting my major and core requirements by the end of it, giving me the wonderful freedom to do something different with my life in some other place on earth for a semester before graduating.

Thing you're looking forward to least this year:
Every year Hollywood ruins my childhood a little more -- this time with the bastardization of Alvin and the Chipmunks.

Read more: I Can Feel The Heart Beating As One, Personals, The Blue And White

October 9, 2007 @ 12:54 PM | Comments 27 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | Email this post | Share on Facebook

Posted by OK, Bwog: [#1] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 1:07 PM )
I think that we've all had enough of the "In which…" prefix on your subheds. It was funny the first several hundred times, what with its sly nod to all kinds of storied books and magazines.

But it's time to find a new conceit. Seriously, it's embarrassing.
Posted by Kane: [#2] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 1:11 PM )
PB2K7 ftw!
Posted by finally!!: [#3] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 1:33 PM )
I'm so glad I now get to confess my love for Paul Barndt. He was totally that boy who distracted me in class.
Posted by forget ahmadinejad: [#4] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 1:40 PM )
maryam puts the purr in my persian. ow!
Posted by I agree: [#5] [reply] [track] (in reply to #3)
( posted October 9, 2007 at 1:57 PM )
But dayam, Bwog, couldn't you have found a better picture of him?

I mean, he's more adorable in real life!
Posted by I'm so glad: [#6] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 2:03 PM )
that Paul Barnt pours his gatorade into a glass.
Posted by Yes!: [#7] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 2:03 PM )
I love Five Guys.
Posted by hot damn: [#8] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 2:12 PM )
are all BW editors this cute?
Posted by Yayyy: [#9] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 3:00 PM )
Bwog Personals are back!!
Posted by LIAR: [#10] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 3:10 PM )
Most shameful thing you've ever done to procrastinate: Doing work that was due way later than both the work I should have been doing, and the work I should have been starting after finishing the work I should have been doing.

BULLSHIT! we all know you waste hours eating cheetos and masturbating. if that weren't the case, you wouldn't be on here in the first place...
Posted by yes: [#11] [reply] [track] (in reply to #8)
( posted October 9, 2007 at 3:26 PM )
Yes they are.
Posted by anon: [#12] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 3:28 PM )
these two people are attractive and straight. what a change!
Posted by Guy: [#13] [reply] [track] (in reply to #7)
( posted October 9, 2007 at 4:19 PM )
Imagine living in a city with Five Guys, In and Out, AND the Burger Joint!

Well, two out of three ain't bad. Five Guys, coming soon to Manhattan...

[ external link to www.fiveguys.com ]
Posted by maryam: [#14] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 4:41 PM )
is the best!
Posted by whoa: [#15] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 5:24 PM )
this guy must be fucking nuts if that lightning bolt song is in his top played. listening to it makes me feel like i just took E and went to watch some nascar. for real.
Posted by I love: [#16] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 7:20 PM )
that Paul listens to Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations. Yay Glenn Gould!
Posted by How wonderful!: [#17] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 8:41 PM )
we must be unwitting soulmates...I also listen to Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations constantly while studying!
Posted by ahh love.: [#18] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 9:04 PM )
i wish glenn gould would post a personal. ::dreamy sigh::
Posted by paul: [#19] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 10:00 PM )
is hung like a walrus. girls go get em, boys let's rumba!
Posted by steph quan: [#20] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 11:13 PM )
i watched annie hall with maryam in bryant park. best 93 minutes of my life.
Posted by yang: [#21] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 11:34 PM )
these too seem perfect for each other!
Posted by yin: [#22] [reply] [track]
( posted October 9, 2007 at 11:42 PM )
nah, maryam hates tom's.
Posted by Hurray: [#23] [reply] [track]
( posted October 10, 2007 at 10:36 AM )
I'm secretly in love with Maryam but can't tell her in real life, because it would be awkward!
Posted by the 80s: [#24] [reply] [track]
( posted October 10, 2007 at 12:00 PM )
who can listen to "kar kar kar karma chameleeeooonnn" enough to make the song top played on itunes.

Posted by ms. poop: [#25] [reply] [track]
( posted October 10, 2007 at 2:36 PM )
i slept with him!
Posted by corniest.....: [#26] [reply] [track]
( posted October 10, 2007 at 10:01 PM )
guy.......ever......
Posted by OMG: [#27] [reply] [track]
( posted October 13, 2007 at 1:17 AM )
i just got paul and maryam's autographs!
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