Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	Novelist, Satirist, Critic, and Student
Location	Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Introduction	James R. Bell is a snarky critic, poet, satirist, and dis-illusioned preacher of nothing. He is currently studying English and Creative Writing at Northumbria and still has trouble believing that paid authors have to write about themselves in third person.
Favorite movies	The Godfather (Parts I & II), Apocalypse Now!, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, The Dark Knight, The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Favorite music	Green Day, Silversun Pickups, Bon Iver, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Johnny Cash, Counting Crows, Nirvana, We Were Promised Jetpacks, The National, The Cribs, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd., Jimmy Eat World, The Who, The Cure, The Lemonheads, Joy Division, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, Nine Inch Nails
Favorite books	1984, Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy, East of Eden, The Winter of Our Discontent, Of Mice and Men, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Ulysses, The Private Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner, Slaughterhouse-Five, A Man Without a Country, God is Not Great, Moab is My Washpot, The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear

You've been entered in a shadow puppet contest. What's your best pose?

Butt-naked: use the penis the form shadows. I'd get disqualified but I'd be back next year. And I'd sure as hell be the only entrant then.