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Location Madison, WI, United States
Introduction This information is available on a need-to-know basis only. I'm sure you understand.
Interests The Silver Screen, A Mix of 'Mics, Feats of Grace and Daring, Neurology, Thievery, Tailoring, Gunslinging, Flight, Pocket Billiards, Hand-to-Hand Combat, Classical Studies, The Art of Detection, Backgammon, Running (Whether Chased or No), Dueling, Chemin de fer, Ribs at the Rendezvous, Steak at Ruth's Chris, Long Cons, Stellar Cartography, Paperback Sleaze, Fine Scotch, Finer Bourbon, 'Bots & 'Borgs, Intelligence Organizations, Crafting Doom
Favorite Movies Rififi, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Seven Samurai, Casino Royale (2006), The Third Man, A Man Escaped, Grand Illusion, Record of a Tenement Gentleman, The Dark Knight, The Thin Red Line, Sansho the Bailiff, The Twilight Samurai, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Hustler, Le Samouraï, Blade Runner, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Croupier, Once Upon a Time in the West, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Chinatown, Exiled, There Will Be Blood, The Big Lebowski, The Passion of Joan of Arc
Favorite Music Bob Dylan, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Explosions in the Sky, David Arnold, The Band, The Beatles, Roy Budd, Cat Power, Sam Cooke, Miles Davis, Echo and the Bunnymen, Hem, Joe Hisaishi, Iron and Wine, Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins, Thelonious Monk, Ennio Morricone, Willie Nelson, The New Pornographers, Beth Orton, Frank Sinatra, Tilly and the Wall, The Who, Yo La Tengo
Favorite Books Ian Fleming, Dashiell Hammett, Nick Bantock, Andre Bazin, William Blake, David Bordwell, Ed Brubaker, Michael Chabon, Darwyn Cooke, John Donne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Will Eisner, Warren Ellis, James Ellroy, Federico Garcia-Lorca, Aldous Huxley, Geoff Johns, Jack Kirby, Brad Meltzer, William Shakespeare, Greg Rucka, Jim Thompson, Matt Wagner, Donald Westlake (especially as Richard Stark), William Wordsworth