Current big interests: Improv comedy, reviewing restaurants, dancing
Music
Electronica. of nearly all types (rave, club trance, happy hardcore, Kraftwerk, The Faint, The Postal Service, DJ Sonar, Bad Boy Bill, Terrance Parker, ACG3, The Crystal Method, you name it).
Dance music of nearly all types including but definately not limited to TECHNO, swing, tango, waltz, cha-cha, and bolero.
Other rock/jazz/alt/ska/wierd stuff. The Eels (and therefore MC Honkey, E), BRMC, I am the World Trade Center, Size 14, Soul Coughing, Gerry Mulligan, Wesley Willis.
Rockabilly/Bluegrass/Irish. But not country. Maybe western, sometimes.
Plus I like a bunch of normal stuff like: Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, Third Eye Blind, and stuff.
Every so often, I play tenor saxophone (previously bari sax too). I also play bad guitar and worse harmonica.
Movies
All my DVDs were stolen a couple months after I moved to Kansas City.
Movies I'm still fiending for that I haven't re-purchased: Tron, Fight Club, Antitrust, Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail.
Movies I love: Back to the Future(s), Indianna Jones(es), Eurotrip, Wayne's World, and especially most of the Matrix(es).
DVD's I have that I wish the robbers would come back and steal: The Mod Squad, Absolon, my roomate's copy of that Bjork concert he plays way too often.
Movies that I liked that I rarely expect other people to have seen: Human Traffic, Bubba HoTep, Ali G Indahouse, The Dog Park.
Television
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Daily Show, Conan O'Brien, SG1, SNL. Oh, and turning it off and going out and doing something I might actually remember a month later.
Books
Recent reads:
Farenheit 451, Improvise, Knowing God, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Story of O, Jennifer Government, The Three Musketeers, The Real Ultimate Power, How Would You Move Mount Fiji?, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
Recent audio book listens:
Harry Potters 1-5, The Gunslinger, The Dilbert Principle, Living the Seven Habits, Of Mice and Men, The Shawshank Redemption, The Rocketman, A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Last Question.
Queued up to read soon:
Requiem for a Dream, Manage iT, Kickboxing for Dummies, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Complete Sherlock Holmes.
Iowa State University
Ames, IOWA
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Major: MIS
Clubs: Grandma Mojo's Moonshine Revival, MIS Club, Ballroom Dance Club, M-Shop groupie
1999 to 2003
John F Kennedy High School
Cedar Rapids, IOWA
Graduated: 1999
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Thespians, Theater, Happiness, Combo, Jazz Band, Concert Band, Marching Band, MFN
About me: Call me an explorer. Except, instead of gallivanting over hemispheres to discover that the world is round, I explore cities. I run around all over this crazy town, Kansas City, and have a blast doing it. My favorites are restaurants, places to dance (esp electronica), and recently, coffee shops.
Unfortunately, I don't get to do that as often as I like as a fair portion of my time is consumed by work, improv comedy (and other stage-like performing), and pursuing my various dreams (of which there are arguably too many). I have a healthy obsession with jackets and hats. I collect elephants, but my roommates love them more than I do. I keep chivalry alive. I toothpick. I put ranch on many things, and if not that, chocolate. I'm an ENTP. I write really long emails because I like to tell stories. I find myself at Jacob's Well every few weeks. I am tired of talking about myself.
Who I'd like to meet: You. The real you. Especially the you that can talk about something (anything!) other than what show they're watching on TV these days.
Quotable Quotes
"What's a good plate with nothin' on it?"
-Jay
"You know, there's a million fine looking women in the world, dude. But they don't all bring you lasagna at work. Most of 'em just cheat on you."
-Silent Bob
"An audience is like a broad. If you're indifferent... endsville"
-Frank Sinatra
Carpe Horam Seize the Hour
To die will be an awfully big adventure!
-Peter Pan
So it goes
-Slaughterhouse Five
People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people
-V for Vendetta
Get busy living, or get busy dying
-Stephen King
Everything is important. Everything matters.
-Jonathan Pitts
The scarcest resource we have is time. Who and what we give it to means a lot.
-Pat Stalter
So Sorry about Saturday! I left my keys in my car along wiht my purse and cell phone Friday night! I couldn't get to my car until after the competetion. It was cool but I got there after Tim's robot. Next year?
hey crazy cat! luving your profile song by the way. i just got back from a weekend of my nice improv troope up at my cottage. we had a crazy time bonding and staying up till well after the sun came up. you should venture north again and meet them, you'd like them i gander. hope you have an awesome week*lisa**
Every so often, I play tenor saxophone (previously bari sax too). I also play bad guitar and worse harmonica.
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