Gender	Male
Industry	Science
Occupation	Environmental Scientist
Location	Burlington, NC, United States
Introduction	"My story is not a pleasant one. It is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are. It has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams; like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves." --Herman Hesse
Interests	Fringe politics, philosophy, and music
Favorite movies	Escape from New York, Goodfellas, Carlito's Way, Trainspotting, Gummo, Dead Presidents, Zodiac, the Underworld series, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Shattered Glass, Less Than Zero, Rounders, Fight Club, The Last Detail, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, The Kentucky Fried Movie, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Unbreakable, Seven, Saw, Saw IV, all Hellraiser flicks, House of 1000 Corpses, No Country For Old Men, I Am Legend, The Believer, Half Nelson, Serpico, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman...
Favorite music	Anything challenging and/or complex. Favorite bands include Rush, King's X, Spock's Beard, Sieges Even, ELP, early Genesis, Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Gentle Giant, Caravan, Gryphon, etc. I'm also into metal (thrash, death, and doom in particular). Favorites include Watchtower, Canvas Solaris, Meshuggah, Collapsar, Spiral Architect, Dillinger Escape Plan, Soilent Green, Pestilence, Asphyx, Cynic, Atheist, Bolt Thrower, Napalm Death (particularly 'Scum' through 'Words From The Exit Wound'), Carcass (except 'Swan Song'), Exhumed, Saint Vitus, Skepticism, Evoken, Khanate, Nile, Morbid Angel, Origin, Behold The Arctopus, Krallice, Dire Wolf, Indricothere, Enslaved, Alarum, Maudlin of the Well, Opeth, Baroness, Mastodon...
Favorite books	-'The Big White Lie' by Michael Levine -'Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers' by Mary Roach -'Under the Banner of Heaven' by Jon Krakauer -'Manic: A Memoir' by Terri Cheney -'Thus Spake Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche -'Notes From The Underground' by Fyodor Dostoevsky