My name is Jake and I'm a 20 year old guy from the US. Right now I'm at university studying English(with​ a focus in journalism).​ My interests include reading and writing, art, history, listening to and discussing music, hiking and camping, having long talks about life in general, and learning about other countries and cultures.

I'm certainly one of a kind; whether or not that's a good thing will have to be up to you to decide. I must warn you that I'm terribly neurotic and pessimistic,​ so if you're of a sunny disposition I might not be the perfect pen-pal

People around my age from anywhere.

I'm willing to do snail mail but I would prefer someone from Europe, just because it takes too long to send letters back and forth from Asia/South America/Afri​ca, and I can't really see the point of doing snail mail with someone who lives in the US.

I'd be more than happy to help anyone with their English. I'm currently studying Hebrew but wouldn't mind picking up a few words in French

Radiohead, The Smiths, Nick Drake, Belle & Sebastian, Velvet Underground,​ ­ Oasis, Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Depeche Mode, John Coltrane, Massive Attack, Blur, U2, Pearl Jam, Mazzy Star, Bjork, Pavement, New Order, the Shins, Talking Heads, Starsailor, Queen, Joy Division, Damien Rice, Jesus and Mary Chain, Sufjan Stevens, My Bloody Valentine, Andrew Bird, Sunny Day Real Estate, Daft Punk, Stone Roses, Portishead, Miles Davis, Jeff Buckley, Tori Amos, The Cure, Johannes Brahms,Goldf​rapp, Led Zeppelin, Stereophonic​­s, David Bowie, Aphex Twin, Pixies, Death in Vegas, Jose Gonzalez, Fleetwood Mac, Pyotr Tchaikovsky,​ Saint Etienne, Eric Clapton, Serge Gainsbourg, Modest Mouse, Pavement, Tricky, Bloc Party, Ayub Ogada, Feist, way more I don't feel like naming

Clerks, Science of Sleep, Trainspottin​g, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Donnie Darko, Annie Hall, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, American Psycho, Vanilla Sky, Manhattan, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Closer, Before Sunrise/Suns​et, Requiem for a Dream, There Will Be Blood, Unforgiven, American Beauty, Garden State, Schindler's List, No Country for Old Men, Three Kings, L.A. Confidential​, Taxi Driver, Almost Famous, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Léon, Apocalypse Now, Memento

William Faulkner, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Albert Camus, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Mann, Dylan Thomas, Jane Austen, Hermann Hesse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Vladimir Nabokov, Martin Amis, Lord Byron, Saul Bellow, W.H. Auden, Oscar Wilde, and Nick Hornby

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishme​nt” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away” - Lord Byron

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” - Karl Marx