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Gender Male
Industry Student
Location Wheaton, IL
Introduction Hopeless Romanticism is a double edged sword.... If I was a literary character it would probably be Dexter Green from "Winter Dreams"
Interests Abiding. Talking. Really really hot beverages. Talking. I love videogames...Too much...Politics. Talking. Classical Philosophy. Studying mythologies, modern or ancient. Reading stories in the style of Magical Realism. Steampunk. Talking. Watching movies, listening to music too loudly, watching sunsets from my roof...enjoying the way stars seem to pull one's mind from earthly troubles...the pacific ocean....
Favorite Movies I'm a Cinephile....I love movies!!! Off the top of my head: Strictly Ballroom, The Rocketteer, Princess Bride, Brick, The Spanish Prisoner, Kingdom of Heaven, Lord of the Rings, The Prestige, Stranger Than Fiction, Singing In The Rain, Tora Tora Tora, Renaissance....Billions more!!!!
Favorite Music I am unhealthily obsessed with the band Copeland. Coldplay, Jazz (Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Grover Washington Jr., Jeff Lorberg, Chris Botti, Canonball Adderly), Schumann, Mae, Anberlin, Jars of Clay, Chris Rice, The Academy Is..., Swing Music, The Beatles, Bing Crosby, Michael Buble, Pachabel, Frou Frou, Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, Trace Bundy, Vertical Horizon, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Son of Adam, Mute Math, Sigur Rós, Peter Bradley Adams, Tycho, Explosions in the Sky, Sufjan Stevens, Blind Pilot ....many many more
Favorite Books The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Rings or any Lewis, The Original Dune Series, Nectar in a Sieve, Chameleon Days, American Gods, Red Storm Rising, Teeth of the Tiger, Blind Man's Bluff