Nick

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Introduction I'm a Writer, English Teacher, and Tabletop RPG Gamer. I'm interested in all sorts of things including but not limited to: American and English literature of the 19th Century, pulp fiction, swashbuckling romances of the early 20th Century, comics, 70s & 80s punk rock, old school Dungeons & Dragons, indie rpgs, science fiction and fantasy literature, horror films of the 1930s & 40s. I live in a very pleasant condo in an undisclosed location with my wife, and daughter.
Interests Comics, Writing, Pop Culture, Pen & Paper RPGs, Pulp Fiction, Fantasy and Science fiction, Films of the 1930s, Swashbuckling romances of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Weird Stuff, Romantic and Gothic literature, Punk Rock, Gnosticism, Film Noir, European History, Anime, Manga, H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker, The Invisibles, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Fairy Tales, Myth, William Blake, Indie Rock etc.
Favorite Movies The Third Man, The Elephant Man, The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Hammer Horror Films, Dune, Barbarella, Danger: Diabolik, Logan's Run, Citizen Kane, Film Noir, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Immortal, Superman, 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Corman's Poe Films, Holiday, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, North By Northwest, The Mummy (the Boris Karloff one), The Wolf Man, Excalibur, Pan's Labyrinth, Cat People (the 1943 one), I Walked With A Zombie, The Body Snatcher, Mad Love etc.
Favorite Music The Clash, the Jam, 1970s David Bowie, the Kinks, Peter Gabriel, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Pixies, the Smiths, the Cure, The Psychedelic Furs, Interpol, the Shins, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Massive Attack, Moby, Chemical Brothers, the Beatles, Nirvana, Television, Guided By Voices, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Joan Jett, Kate Bush etc.
Favorite Books Frankenstein, Poe's Short Fiction, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, H.P. Lovecraft's Short Fiction, Lord of the Rings, 1984, The Dying Earth, Elric of Melnibone, The Final Programme, Cosmic Trigger, The Urth Cycle, Neuromancer, Schismatrix, Tomb of Dracula, Watchmen, Crisis on Infinite Earths, Sandman, Doom Patrol, The Invisibles, Transmetropolitan, The Filth, Seaguy, From Hell, The Authority, A Song Of Ice & Fire, Prime Chaos, The Book of Lies, Temporary Autonomous Zone etc.