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Nuclear Summer

About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Military
Occupation	Soldier
Location	Pekin, IL, United States
Introduction	My main sources of news are NPR and Coast to Coast AM. I hope to combine these two passions someday by hosting a show on NPR about ghosts and aliens. If not, I'd be happy with the first half. My secret dream has always been to host a show (or at least read the news) on NPR. I think I have a unique enough voice for it. I maintain barely enough knowledge of sports to carry a conversation about the merits of the Cover 2 defense in long-yardage situations while secretly having no idea what I'm talking about. Deep down I despise all organized sports and have always gravitated to the underground. Because of this I can carry on intelligent conversations for hours on the subjects of professional wrestling, rollerderby, the XFL, Slamball, Skitching, Chessboxing, and American Gladiators. My strongest childhood influence was Calvin and Hobbes. As a result I still play Calvinball and I strongly believe the movie Fight Club was subvertly about a grown-up Calvin and his interaction with Hobbes (Brad Pitt's character). I aspire to someday be a world-class theremin player. Jokes never become old to me. If it's funny the first time it'll probably be funnier the thousandth time.
Interests	Puppies, holding hands, long walks on the beach, and literature from militant lesbian separatists (especially from the times of the Mycenaeans).
Favorite movies	Phantom of the Opera, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, Father Goose, The Big Lebowski, The Shawshank Redemption, eXistenZ, The Producers, We're No Angels, Some Like It Hot, Anastasia, The Crow, Life is Beautiful, Corpse Bride, Casablanca, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car?
Favorite music	AFI, Ani Difranco, Arcade Fire, Bouncing Souls, Cary Brothers, Coldplay, Counting Crows, The Cure, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, Evanescence, Green Day, Howie Day, Iron & Wine, Jane Monheit, Jennifer Knapp, Joshua Radin, Jurassic 5, The Killers, Lily Allen, Linkin Park, Lostprophets, Merchant Band, Neko Case, Nickel Creek, Our Lady Peace, Patty Griffin, Regina Spektor, Rich Mullins, Sufjan Stevens, U2, Waterdeep, Wister Dean, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Favorite books	Romans, James, Ephesians, John, Wild at Heart, Blue Like Jazz, A Series of Unfortunate Events, An Arrow Pointing to Heaven, Velvet Elvis, Ragamuffin Gospel, Herbert the Penguin, Generally anything written by Brennan Manning.