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Interests and Activities

Film, Theatre, Chess, Poker, Music, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Disc Golf

Favorite Movies

The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai across the 8th Dimension, Gattaca, City of God, Braveheart, dawn of the dead, omega man, last of the mohicans, The Shawshank Redemption, Wonder Boys, Napoleon Dynamite, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The Godfather, Star Wars, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Back to the Future, Young Frankenstein, That Thing You Do, Dog Day Afternoon, Midnight Cowboy, Sunshine, Dawn of the Dead, Moulin Rouge, Sin City,

Favorite TV Shows

the family guy, south park, the wonder years, salute your shorts, hey dude, aqua teen hunger force, the amazing race, battlestar galactica, lost, heroes

Favorite Books

The Fountainhead, Slaughterhouse Five, Ishmael, It Happened in Boston?, Ender's Game, Beyond Civiliazation, The Tropic Of Cancer, The Stand, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Survivor, Brave new world, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Cat's Cradle, Animal Farm, Speaker For the Dead, Flowers for Algernon

Favorite Music

american football, atmosphere, the arcade fire, the appleseed cast, architecture in helsinki, at the drive-in, ani difranco, billy music, brother ali, the blinding light, broken social scene, the cure, coheed and cambria, copeland, david bowie, elliot, elliot smith, godspeed!, grandaddy, guster, hot rod circuit, isis, jimmy eat world, led zepplin, mae, mineral, modest mouse, mogwai, nickel creek, neil young, owen, pelican, piebald, pink floyd, rocky votolato, sage francis, saves the day, sensefield, sigur ros, spirit of versailles, texas is the reason, the beatles, the casket lottery, the get up kids, the new amsterdams, the postal service, the promise ring, waxwing, martin medeski wood

Favorite Quotes

"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down." ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts." ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby." ~Jack Handy

"You're not perfect sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met she's not perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other." - Good Will Hunting