Dex
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | IT Support |
| Location | near Salem, MA, United States |
| Introduction | I’ve been a Star Wars fan since the original movie came out in 1977. My second love as a kid was video games. I’ve been a video gamer since Pong was a home system. We had an Atari 2600 and later a 5200. A few years later I got my first computer: a TI-99/4A. It wasn't long before I was editing hex sprites in a BASIC ripoff of Space Invaders to make the ships resemble an X-Wing and TIE Fighters. My dad would take me to the local bowling alley on Friday nights to play video games and I'm proud to say I can name about 90% of early 80s video games by sound alone.I didn't get into the Nintendo craze until the Star Wars game came out, then I got my first credit card! Many a Saturday afternoon was spent in front of the tube watching Creature Double Feature on WLVI 56. And from this came a lifelong love of giant monsters/insects/spiders and cheesy sci-fi and horror movies. And those movies are also likely the root of my other love: Halloween. Of course, most kids love Halloween anyway but as I got older I really started digging into the history and traditions of Halloweens past. Now I haunt the streets of Salem, MA every Halloween scaring locals and tourists alike. |
| Interests | Halloween, photography, Doctor Who |
| Favorite movies | Star Wars, Labyrinth, Deathrace 2000, Creature from the Black Lagoon, anything with Vincent Price, atomic age monster movies |
| Favorite music | The Donnas, Zombina and the Skeletones, Helloween, Calabrese, The Ghastly Ones |
| Favorite books | A Wizard of Earthsea, DragonLance, Dinotopia, Rotters |