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Favorite Artists: Decemberists, April March, Thievery Corporation, Komeda, Pizzicato Five, Spiritualized, Shins, Cheap Seats, Beatles, Polyphonic Spree, Ben Folds, Dengue Fever, Tahiti 80, Stereolab, Daft Punk, Ben Harper, Bikini Kill, Seatbelts, Apples in Stereo, Eyeliners, Oasis, Sigur Ros, Norah Jones, Cake, 5.6.7.8's, Distillers, Patti Smith, White Stripes, Lauren Hoffman, Counting Crows, Shakira, Nirvana, Pete Yorn, Smashing Pumpkins, Donnas, Brian Wilson, Fiona Apple, 10000 Maniacs, Sleater-Kinney, Pink Floyd, Pretenders, Cibo Matto, Dopo Yume, Frank Sinatra, Marcy Playground, Kelly Bell Band, Weezer, Bjork, Edith Piaf, Dusty Trails, REM, Renee Fleming, Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Enya, Rufus Wainwright. Keren Ann, Carla Bruni, Yann Tiersen, Lady and Bird
Favorite Albums: Together We're Heavy, Not Going Anywhere, Speak for Yourself, Abbey Road, Her Wallpaper Reverie, Pet Sounds, Shake Off the Dust...Arise!, Since I Left You, Quel Qu'un Ma Dit, SMiLE, Nolita, Demon Days, Lady and Bird, Easter, Future Blues, When, Pinkerton, Elephant, Bomb the Rocks, Comfort Eagle, Be Here Now

Favorite Books: The Cloister Walk, A Moveable Feast, The Illumined Heart. Exile's Return, Ender's Game, Hail Holy Queen, The Great Gatsby, For Want of a Nail, On the Road, The Sun Also Rises, Tender is the Night, The Lord of the Rings, Witness to Hope, the Popul Vuh, Maus, Travels in Afghanistan, Rise! Let Us Be On Our Way, the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Ulysses, The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, The Next Christendom, Heart of Darkness, Sophie's World

Favorite Movies: Amelie, High Fidelity, Being John Malkovitch, Roman Holiday, Down With Love, Rocky Horror, Gattaca, American Beauty, Jesus Christ Superstar, Romeo+Juliet, Signs, The Four Feathers, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy, Matrix Trilogy, One Hour Photo, Fight Club, The Truman Show, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bill and Ted, Fools Rush In, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Return to Oz, Max, Star Trek VI, Road to Perdition, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, It's A Wonderful Life, Life is Beautiful, Castaway, Wayne's World, The Passion of the Christ

Nicknames: Stupidface
Religion: Catholic
Heroes: Keren Ann, Pope John Paul II, Ernest Hemingway
Interests: I'm Catholic, a writer and poet, with esoteric taste in film and music. I'm an English major focusing on writing and the study of the literature of the American expatriat community in inter-war Paris, as well as inter-war literary and artistic movements in general. I presently describe myself as politically communitarian, philosophically christian existential humanist, and artistically reconstructivist. Which means that, in essence, I believe in positive social development, positive philosophical development, and positive artistic development. I'm working on several major projects, foremost among them being a novel (the first of a projected three-book series) called Alcohol for Wit, and a science-fiction comic series called Sanctuary. I am an intensely religious guy, but I'm not, for lack of a better term, a "fundamentalist." I simply recognize the importance of God to this world, and to a true understanding of what constitutes the human person. Anyway, I'm very philosophicall
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