Jim

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Graduate Student
Location Reno, NV, United States
Introduction A cog in the machine that simultaneously constructs and deconstructs your reality.
Interests writing, hiking, photography, movies, astronomy, canoeing, ultimate frisbee, cooking, guitar, American literature, ecocriticism and theory, gender studies, skiing, mountain biking, politics, environmental activism
Favorite Movies City Lights, Fargo, Rear Window, Aguirre: der Zorn Gottes, La Règle du Jeu, House of Flying Daggers, The Wild Bunch, Citizen Kane, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, Big Fish, Napoleon Dynamite, Better Off Dead, Brokeback Mountain, Monty Python's Life of Brian, The English Patient, The Straight Story, Deliverance, The Princess Bride, Grizzly Man
Favorite Music Neil Young, Be Good Tanyas, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Ryan Adams, My Morning Jacket, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Spoon, Arcade Fire, Old Crow Medicine Show, Calexico, Death Cab for Cutie, Joanna Newsom, Green Day, Johnny Cash, Radiohead, Gillian Welch, Uncle Tupelo, Son Volt, R.E.M., Built to Spill, Bob Dylan, Toots & the Maytals, Sufjan Stevens
Favorite Books The Snow Leopard, Desert Solitaire, Into the Wild, Walden, Cold Mountain, Nature, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Far from the Madding Crowd, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jitterbug Perfume, Galapagos, Letters from an American Farmer, The Cider House Rules, The Things They Carried, Their Eyes Were Watching God, To the Lighthouse, Life of Pi, Ceremony, Fidelity, Turtle Island, House of Light, Refuge

Do you believe that forks are evolved from spoons?

When God created forks 6,000 years ago, He made them so perfect that there could be no way to improve on them (see Genesis--the book, not the band--for details).