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About me

Gender	Male
Industry	Construction
Occupation	Retail
Location	Chicago, IL, United States
Introduction	I'm a 24-year-old urban neophyte. I just got marriedto the beautiful and clever Julianne Van't Land (nee Woodroof), who is accompanying me to Toronto in September for me to get my Masters in Political/Social Philosophy. Besides reading and writing, I love to jam out on bass, guitar, and piano. I have parents and brothers, two of each, whom I love dearly. If I'm feeling particularly frisky, you might run across me in a karate gi, haphazardly practicing an ancient art which I could never seriously call my own. I worship Yawheh in a scattershot and all-too-human manner, but He loves me all the same.
Favorite movies	Amelie, Boondock Saints, Big Lebowski, Black Hawk Down, Blazing Saddles, Blues Brothers, Braveheart, Brazil, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Casablanca, Catch Me If You Can, Catch-22, Citizen Kane, City of God, A Clockwork Orange, The Sound Of Music, Conspiracy theory, Cool Hand Luke, Crash, The Dark Knight, Dead Poet's Society, Donnie Darko, Dr. Strangelove, Double Indemnity, Duck Soup, Exorcist 3, Eyes Wide Shut, Fargo, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Forrest Gump, Full Metal Jacket, Garden State, Ghostbusters, Girl, Interrupted, Gladiator, The Godfather, Good Will Hunting, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Goodfellas, Halloween, Heat, High Fidelity, High Noon, In Bruges, Inglorious Basterds, Insomnia, Jacob's Ladder, Jaws, Juno, Kingdom of Heaven, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Life Is Beautiful, The Machinist, The Magnificent Seven, Manchurian Candidate, Magnolia, The Matrix, Memento, Minority Report, Mulholland Drive, Nightmare On Elm Street, No Country for Old Men, Ocean's Eleven, Oldboy, The Omen, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pan's Labyrinth, Pi, Platoon, Prestige, Primer, Pulp Fiction, Red Beard, Requiem for a Dream, The Ring, Rocky, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Royal Tenenbaums, Run Lola Run, Saving Private Ryan, A Scanner Darkly, Scarface, Schindler's List, Seven, 7 Samurai, Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, Silence Of The Lambs, Star Wars, The Thing, Videodrome
Favorite music	Soul. Metal. Baroque. Gregorian Chants. Celtic folk. Pop punk. Hardcore Punk. Grunge. Classic Rock. Disco. Doo-wop. Blues. Funk. Bluegrass. Rap. Folk. Basically, bring it on - let's jam!
Favorite books	Nonfiction: Aquinas, Aristotle, Augustine, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, Baudrillard, Mark Bowden, Wendell Berry, Martin Buber, Joseph Campbell, Chesterton, Descartes, John Eldredge, Freud, Fromm, Heidegger, Hobbes, Husserl, Aldous Huxley, Jung, Immanuel Kant, Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, John Locke, Pat Robertson, Marx, Abraham Maslow, John Stuart Mill, Donald Miller, Pirsig, Plato, Ayn Rand, Sartre, Suzuki, Hunter S. Thompson, Thoreau, Tsunetomo, Novels, Poems, Plays, Graphic Novels, Short Stories: Animal Farm, Antigone, Beowulf, The Bible, Brave New World, The Call of the Wild, Candide, Catch-22, Catcher In The Rye, Chronicles of Narnia, Dracula, The Da Vinci Code, The Death of Ivan Ilych, Death of a Salesman, Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Epic of Gilgamesh, Fahrenheit 451, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Fight Club, Frankenstein, Glass Menagerie, Great Gatsby, Hamlet, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, I Am Legend, In the Penal Colony, Invisible Man, Lord of the Flies, Lord Of The Rings, The Lottery, Macbeth, Most Dangerous Game, No Exit, The Odyssey, Of Mice and Men, Old Man and the Sea, On the Road, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Pearl, Perks of Being a Wallflower, Peter Pan, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Scarlet Letter, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Stranger, Sin City the Hard Goodbye, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Swiss Family Robinson, Tale Of Two Cities, To Kill a Mockingbird, etc.