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Gender	Male
Occupation	Medicine
Location	Ogden, UT
Interests	Photography in all it's different perspectives and the memories/feelings they often conjure, most fruit snacks-yum, skiing on freshly snowed powder, the taste/smell of fresh raindrops,reading a good long book, wrestling till your lungs start burning, laughing till you've forgotten what you are laughing about (I seem to do this one a lot and most people just stare in bewilderment), late night talks about unanswerable subjects, secret smiles from someone you care about (I could use a bit more of these), headstands until your head looks as red as a stop sign, watching a favorite old time movie when you're tired, the sound of new snow under your foot, literary quotes, driving ludicrously fast, going outside whenever a storm arrives, listening to people tell their stories because there are so many to be heard, listening to a song you've played a million times and singing along to every word(in your car), eating blueberry morning cereal at 2 in the morning, reading poetry out loud when sleep is unattainable, the satisfactory feeling that comes with doing something right and the rush that accompanies the rebellious choice, wearing a new outfit for the first time, ignoring important phone calls, investigate to see how long my car runs on empty :) collecting key chains (I have a bajillion!), traveling the world (wish I had the chance more often), creating collages ,the uncanny beauty of the human eye, accessories, listening to British/Australian accents, researching about anything on Wikipedia ha, wasting countless life-spans viewing odd/funny/shocking Youtube clips, popping my knuckles incessantly, swatting a mosquito because they are evil incarnate!, brushing my teeth until the enamel begins to wear off, practicing the DrUmS on Rockband, scarfs are gnarly, clean laundry smell is the best, tan lines are always a good laugh, shaving is the most tedious part of life (slight exaggeration..), to be continued .. . .. . ..
Favorite movies	Haroooooooom......“Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally.” I really enjoy a good, good movie. The only trouble is stumbling upon one. In my life I suppose I have found a few........Rushmore, Unbreakable, Good Will Hunting, Gattaca, 12 Mokeys, K-Pax, It's A Wonderful Life, Pan's Labyrinth, The Royal Tannenbaum's, Fight Club, Moulin Rouge, Elizabeth Town, Requiem for a Dream, Finding Forrester, Citizen Kane, The Shawshank Redemption, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, American Beauty, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, The Wizard of Oz, Donnie Darko, American History X, Children of Men, Crash, Gone With the Wind, LOTR, Big Fish, Dark City, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou......and moreeeeeee I'm sure. “Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.”-Walt Disney(now frozen)
Favorite music	I relish music. I am selective though. To pin point one specific genre would be inaccurate because I don't enjoy a specific classification solely for the reason of it being categorized so. Music for me is a funny mystery. I will just open my ears and decide if I like it. It might be the sound, the melody, the voice, the lyrics, the catchy chorus, its dominance on the radio, its emotive qualities, its associaiton with a memory....I don't know really. Music is a part of me as it is for so many others. I like to imagine that music is the soul's utterance, be that good or bad. Her communication and cadence. Words jumble while music, sound, rhythm connect and speak clear.
Favorite books	Books are my passion and escape.You could say I take the words of Gustave Flaubert seriously when he stated, "read in order to live!" I basically try and cover the whole range of literature. From Fantasy to Biographies and all the other various genres in between. Each have their particular flavor and benefit. With that in mind the test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it. A list of favorites would be rather expansive so I'll just enumerate a few: Hamlet, Fear & Trembling, Fahrenheit 451, A Brave New World, The Scarlet Letter, Lord of the Flies, The Odyssey, Ender's Game, East of Eden,The Shell Collector, Snow Falling On Cedars, The River King, The Jungle, Screwtape Letters, Republic, Canterbury Tales, Life of Pi, The Power of One, Stone Diaries, Civil Disobedience, The Shipping News, Catcher In The Rye, Picture of Dorian Gray, To Kill A Mockingbird, All the Pauline Epistles, A Tale of Two Cities, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Pride & Prejudice, Meditations, Confessions of a Sinner, Wuthering Heights, Song of Solomon, The Idiot, Interpreter of Maladies, Lord of the Rings, The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, The Divine Comedy, Old Turtle, The Prince, Robinson Crusoe, Plainsong, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, The Things They Carried, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Giving Tree, Romeo & Juliet, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Wheel of Time series, Gravity's Rainbow, Gospel of St. John, Of Empire, Middlesex, 1984, Job, Their Eye's Were Watching God, Tess of the d'Ubervilles...whoa I'll stop there. In the end , "Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember but the story. " -Tim O' Brien